long-acuminate
acuminate
caudate
cuspidate
acumen
accuminate
chain
featheredge
spire
deep-throated
spindle-shaped
cigar-shaped
fusiform
top and but
multitapered
bostrychoid
ventricose
taperingly
attenuated
attenuate
subulate
taperwise
spindle
taper
linear
line
attenuation
baculiconic
synclinorium
barlike
measuring tape
emarginate
bulb
sideboard
terete
tapeline
height
lye
scarcement
umbraculate
clinching
plumb rule
contour
siffle
panel
shelf
clump block
weatherboard
weatherboarding
tanker
stock
clapboard
length
rail
railing
fusoid-ventricose
crow's foot
lip
reticulation
slit
gunline
perimeter
radius
A-side
cradle
beadboard
speedboard
overmargin
strip
macrofilament
pectinate
face
lengthwise
cassoon
surface
reach
sheetboard
segment
prolongedly
pipeway
warping post
yard measure
salicional
lamination
back board
filibranch
circumference
sinuate
yardstick
gaffa
long-acuminate
acuminate
caudate
cuspidate
accuminate
deep-throated
spindle-shaped
cigar-shaped
fusiform
multitapered
bostrychoid
ventricose
attenuated
attenuate
subulate
taperwise
linear
baculiconic
barlike
emarginate
terete
umbraculate
fusoid-ventricose
pectinate
lengthwise
filibranch
sinuate
taperingly
taperwise
lengthwise
prolongedly
acumen
chain
featheredge
spire
top and but
taper
line
attenuation
synclinorium
measuring tape
bulb
sideboard
tapeline
height
lye
scarcement
clinching
plumb rule
siffle
panel
shelf
clump block
weatherboard
weatherboarding
tanker
stock
clapboard
length
rail
railing
crow's foot
lip
reticulation
slit
gunline
perimeter
radius
A-side
beadboard
speedboard
overmargin
strip
macrofilament
face
cassoon
surface
reach
sheetboard
segment
pipeway
warping post
yard measure
salicional
lamination
back board
circumference
yardstick
gaffa
spindle
contour
cradle
noun
- A long measuring tape.
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- The warp threads of a web.
- A series of interconnected things.
verb
- To link multiple items together.
- To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- To obligate.
- To fasten something with a chain.
- To secure someone with fetters.
- To load and automatically run (a program).
- To be chained to another data item.
noun
noun
- A sharp or tapering point.
- A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
- A spiral.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
verb
adj
verb
- To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- To weaken.
- To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- To rarefy.
- (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
verb
- To make into a long tapered shape.
- To take on a long tapered shape.
- To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
noun
- A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
- The fusee of a watch.
- A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
- A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
- Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
- Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
- A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
- A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
- A sleep spindle.
- A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
- An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
- A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
- a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
- A muscle spindle.
- A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
noun
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
- A small light.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
adj
verb
adj
- Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
- A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
- Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
- Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y=ax+b.
- Of or relating to lines.
- Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
noun
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
verb
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
noun
- The tapering of a leaf etc to a fine point.
- A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.
- The reduction of the active principles of medicines to minute doses.
- A weakening in the virulence of a pathogen or other microorganism.
- A fabrication process in which a material is stretched out into a thin shape.
- The proportion of sugar that is converted to ethanol by a yeast.
- A gradual diminishing of strength.
noun
adj
- With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
- Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
- Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.
- Having roughly the same height or width for most of its length, becoming much shallower or narrower before reaching the attachment point.
verb
noun
- Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
- A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
- A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
- The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
verb
noun
- A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.
- A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
- A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.
- A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.
verb
noun
- The distance from the base of something to the top.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- The highest point or maximum degree.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- The amplitude of a sine function
- A high point.
- An area of land at the top of a cliff.
verb
- To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
- To mark with contour lines.
- To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
noun
- a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- A general description giving the most important points.
noun
- A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- The whole jury.
- A heap of dressed ore.
- A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
verb
noun
- A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
- A reef, shoal or sandbar.
- The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
- A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects.
- The capacity of such an object
noun
- A longboard.
- A tank ship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
- An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.
- A tank truck.
- A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
- An aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.
- A tank car.
- Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
verb
noun
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Lineage, family, ancestry.
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- A share in a company.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- A ski pole.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
verb
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
adj
noun
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
verb
noun
- A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
- especially, in genus Ranunculus
- A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.
- A triangular embroidery stitch.
- A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.
- Certain flowering plants
- A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
- A caltrop.
noun
- The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
- Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
- Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
verb
- To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
- To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
- To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- To utter verbally.
- To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- To wash against a surface, lap.
noun
- The length of such a boundary.
- The outer limits of an area. See synonyms at circumference.
- An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.
- The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object.
- A fortified strip or boundary usually protecting a military position.
noun
- The length of this line segment.
- The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
- A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
- The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
- One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
- Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
verb
- To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
- To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
- To rock (a baby to sleep).
- To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- To nurse or train in infancy.
- To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
- To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
noun
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
- Infancy, or very early life.
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
- The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
- A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
- A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
- A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
noun
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
verb
- take away possessions from someone
- get undressed
- remove the surface from
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- lay bare
- steal goods; take as spoils
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- strip the cured leaves from
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- take off or remove
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
noun
- The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
- The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The mouth.
- The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
- One's facial expression.
- A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- The front surface of a bat.
- The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- The frontal aspect of something.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
- The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- Public image; outward appearance.
- Presence; sight; front.
- An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- The directed force of something.
- Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A typeface.
- A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
verb
- To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
- To have the front in a certain direction.
- To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.
- To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- To have as an opponent.
- To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- To be the batsman on strike.
- To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
noun
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- information that has become public
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
verb
- come to the surface
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
adj
noun
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
verb
- To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To strike or touch.
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
noun
- A length of some object.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
- One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- An Ethernet bus.
- Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
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English words for 'Tapering to a characteristically long point at its apex.'
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