English words for 'Synonym of thread-locking fluid.'
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noun
- (mechanical engineering) A threaded bushing: a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.
- (electrical engineering) A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.
- (mechanical engineering) An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.
- An adapter for joining pipes of different size.
- (mechanical engineering) A type of plain bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.
- a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction
- an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass
verb
noun
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
verb
noun
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
adj
- Having threads.
- (computing, not comparable) Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.
- (computing, not comparable) Of messages in a digital forum conversation: displayed hierarchically (based on parent messages), rather than linearly (usually purely chronologically).
- (of bolts or screws) having screw threads
verb
noun
- (engineering) A screw thread.
- (weaving) A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
- (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.
- A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
- A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
- The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
- A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.
- A sequence of connections.
- (Internet) A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
- A slender stream of water.
- the raised helical rib going around a screw
- a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
- any long object resembling a thin line
- the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
verb
- (transitive) To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
- (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
- (intransitive) Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.
- To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
- (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
- (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
- (ambitransitive) To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film. [(usually) with up]
- (transitive, figurative) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
- (transitive) To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
- (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
- pass a thread through
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- thread on or as if on a string
- remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
- pass through or into
noun
verb
noun
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- A shuttlecock.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
- public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points
- bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
verb
noun
- (technology) The parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid.
- (physiology) The parts of an animal body comprising the heart, blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries), and blood, which circulate the blood around the body.
- the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body
verb
- (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
- (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
- (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
- (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
- (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
- wash off soap or remaining dirt
- rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
- clean with some chemical process
noun
verb
noun
noun
- A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
- A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
- the facial expression of sudden pain
- a reflex response to sudden pain
verb
verb
- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- (ambitransitive) To draw into conversation.
- (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- (intransitive) To enter into battle.
- (transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- (transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with.
- keep engaged
- hire for work or assistance
- carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
- carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
- give to in marriage
- get caught
- consume all of one's attention or time
- engage or hire for work
- engage for service under a term of contract
- ask to represent; of legal counsel
noun
- (engineering) A device for controlling or maintaining the flow of liquid.
- (informal) Something that tends to flood.
- (informal) A person employed to handle issues arising from flooding.
- (Internet slang) A person who floods message boards, chat rooms etc. with unwanted or repetitive comments.
- (agriculture) A channel or device for carrying and controlling water used in flood irrigation.
noun
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
name
verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- (especially mechanical engineering) Synonym of air lock.
- (mechanical engineering) A problem mostly affecting gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines, where the liquid fuel changes state from liquid to gas while still in the fuel delivery system, reducing the pump pressure and causing transient power loss or complete stalling.
- a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor)
noun
- Any material used to seal a surface so as to prevent passage of a fluid.
- (construction) A mixture of polymers, fillers, and pigments used to fill and seal joints where moderate movement is expected.
- a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface)
noun
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (uncountable) A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
- (countable) The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
- (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
- a thin coating or layer
- a medium that disseminates moving pictures
verb
- (ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- (ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
- record in film
- make a film or photograph of something
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
- (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
- (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
- (transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
- impose or inflict forcefully
- fasten or fix with a clamp
noun
- (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
- (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
- A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
- A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
- (agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
- A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
- (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
verb
- (transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
- (intransitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
- (nautical) Of a ship, to be grounded.
- (transitive) Followed by into: to enclose by sewing.
- create (clothes) with cloth
- fasten by sewing; do needlework
noun
- (countable) A locking mechanism that uses hydrostatic pressure in order to achieve a seal.
- (countable) A lock for raising and lowering boats on a canal or waterway that operates by using pressurized water to flood or drain the level inside the lock.
- (mechanical engineering, usually uncountable) A condition that arises when a device which compresses gases seizes up because of the infiltration of liquid, which prevents further compression.
verb
noun
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- any communal combination of funds
- a small lake
- the combined stakes of the betters
- an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- an association of companies for some definite purpose
- an organization of people or resources that can be shared
- any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
- A localized glow of light.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- A number of people when considered as a resource.
- (games, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
- (by extension) Any group of like things.
- (rugby union) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- A set of players in quadrille etc.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- A supply of resources.
- A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
- Ellipsis of swimming pool.
- (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
- The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
- (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
verb
- join or form a pool of people
- combine into a common fund
- (transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
- (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
noun
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
verb
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- make into a puddle
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To form a puddle.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- (Scotland) To soak.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
noun
noun
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a circular segment of a curve
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of winding or twisting
verb
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
verb
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To force to work.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To exhaust, by working.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- cause to undergo fermentation
noun
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
noun
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
adj
verb
verb
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To bead; to form droplets.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
- (intransitive) To hunt for pearls
- (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
- (Minecraft) To use an ender pearl to teleport by throwing it.
- (intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.
- (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
- (intransitive, surfing) Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
- (intransitive, botany) Of aquatic plants: to produce visible bubbles on the stems and leaves during photosynthesis, usually in a simulated environment like an aquarium.
- (intransitive, surfing) To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
- gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
noun
- (figuratively) Something precious.
- A light-colored tern.
- A fringe or border.
- A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- Ellipsis of pearl tapioca.
- A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- (heraldry) Argent, in blazoning by precious stones.
- (literally) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
- (figuratively) A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
- (figuratively, euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for, e.g., medicinal application.
- Nacre; mother-of-pearl.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
verb
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- hang freely
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- make inoperative or stop
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- render temporarily ineffective
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
noun
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
verb
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A threaded bushing: a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.
- (electrical engineering) A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.
- (mechanical engineering) An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.
- An adapter for joining pipes of different size.
- (mechanical engineering) A type of plain bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.
- a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction
- an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass
verb
noun
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
verb
noun
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (engineering) A screw thread.
- (weaving) A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
- (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.
- A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
- A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
- The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
- A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.
- A sequence of connections.
- (Internet) A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
- A slender stream of water.
- the raised helical rib going around a screw
- a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
- any long object resembling a thin line
- the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
verb
- (transitive) To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
- (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
- (intransitive) Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.
- To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
- (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
- (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
- (ambitransitive) To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film. [(usually) with up]
- (transitive, figurative) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
- (transitive) To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
- (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
- pass a thread through
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- thread on or as if on a string
- remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
- pass through or into
noun
verb
noun
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- A shuttlecock.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
- public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points
- bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
verb
noun
- (technology) The parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid.
- (physiology) The parts of an animal body comprising the heart, blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries), and blood, which circulate the blood around the body.
- the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body
noun
- A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
- A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
- the facial expression of sudden pain
- a reflex response to sudden pain
verb
noun
- (engineering) A device for controlling or maintaining the flow of liquid.
- (informal) Something that tends to flood.
- (informal) A person employed to handle issues arising from flooding.
- (Internet slang) A person who floods message boards, chat rooms etc. with unwanted or repetitive comments.
- (agriculture) A channel or device for carrying and controlling water used in flood irrigation.
noun
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
name
verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- (especially mechanical engineering) Synonym of air lock.
- (mechanical engineering) A problem mostly affecting gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines, where the liquid fuel changes state from liquid to gas while still in the fuel delivery system, reducing the pump pressure and causing transient power loss or complete stalling.
- a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor)
noun
- Any material used to seal a surface so as to prevent passage of a fluid.
- (construction) A mixture of polymers, fillers, and pigments used to fill and seal joints where moderate movement is expected.
- a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface)
noun
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (uncountable) A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
- (countable) The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
- (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
- a thin coating or layer
- a medium that disseminates moving pictures
verb
- (ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- (ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
- record in film
- make a film or photograph of something
noun
- (countable) A locking mechanism that uses hydrostatic pressure in order to achieve a seal.
- (countable) A lock for raising and lowering boats on a canal or waterway that operates by using pressurized water to flood or drain the level inside the lock.
- (mechanical engineering, usually uncountable) A condition that arises when a device which compresses gases seizes up because of the infiltration of liquid, which prevents further compression.
verb
noun
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- any communal combination of funds
- a small lake
- the combined stakes of the betters
- an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- an association of companies for some definite purpose
- an organization of people or resources that can be shared
- any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
- A localized glow of light.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- A number of people when considered as a resource.
- (games, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
- (by extension) Any group of like things.
- (rugby union) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- A set of players in quadrille etc.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- A supply of resources.
- A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
- Ellipsis of swimming pool.
- (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
- The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
- (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
verb
- join or form a pool of people
- combine into a common fund
- (transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
- (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
noun
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
verb
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- make into a puddle
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To form a puddle.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
noun
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a circular segment of a curve
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of winding or twisting
verb
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
noun
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
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noun
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
verb
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
verb
- (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
- (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
- (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
- (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
- (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
- wash off soap or remaining dirt
- rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
- clean with some chemical process
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- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- (ambitransitive) To draw into conversation.
- (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- (intransitive) To enter into battle.
- (transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- (transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with.
- keep engaged
- hire for work or assistance
- carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
- carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
- give to in marriage
- get caught
- consume all of one's attention or time
- engage or hire for work
- engage for service under a term of contract
- ask to represent; of legal counsel
noun
- (engineering) A screw thread.
- (weaving) A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
- (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.
- A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
- A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
- The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
- A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.
- A sequence of connections.
- (Internet) A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
- A slender stream of water.
- the raised helical rib going around a screw
- a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
- any long object resembling a thin line
- the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
verb
- (transitive) To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
- (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
- (intransitive) Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.
- To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
- (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
- (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
- (ambitransitive) To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film. [(usually) with up]
- (transitive, figurative) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
- (transitive) To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
- (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
- pass a thread through
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- thread on or as if on a string
- remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
- pass through or into
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
- (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
- (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
- (transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
- impose or inflict forcefully
- fasten or fix with a clamp
noun
- (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
- (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
- A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
- A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
- (agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
- A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
- (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
verb
- (transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
- (intransitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
- (nautical) Of a ship, to be grounded.
- (transitive) Followed by into: to enclose by sewing.
- create (clothes) with cloth
- fasten by sewing; do needlework
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- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- (Scotland) To soak.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
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- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To force to work.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To exhaust, by working.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- cause to undergo fermentation
noun
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To bead; to form droplets.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
- (intransitive) To hunt for pearls
- (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
- (Minecraft) To use an ender pearl to teleport by throwing it.
- (intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.
- (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
- (intransitive, surfing) Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
- (intransitive, botany) Of aquatic plants: to produce visible bubbles on the stems and leaves during photosynthesis, usually in a simulated environment like an aquarium.
- (intransitive, surfing) To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
- gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
noun
- (figuratively) Something precious.
- A light-colored tern.
- A fringe or border.
- A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- Ellipsis of pearl tapioca.
- A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- (heraldry) Argent, in blazoning by precious stones.
- (literally) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
- (figuratively) A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
- (figuratively, euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for, e.g., medicinal application.
- Nacre; mother-of-pearl.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
verb
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- hang freely
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- make inoperative or stop
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- render temporarily ineffective
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
adj
- Having threads.
- (computing, not comparable) Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.
- (computing, not comparable) Of messages in a digital forum conversation: displayed hierarchically (based on parent messages), rather than linearly (usually purely chronologically).
- (of bolts or screws) having screw threads