rat-trap
incaverned
inlock
locken
impen
unclench
spring padlock
spring latch
fastened
locking
ensnaring
split
snag
clasp lock
tear
rip
rent
crib
hook
cage in
impound
cage
click
relocker
microcage
snecket
hatch
lockable
portcullis
iron cage
unclutch
latching
clenched
shut
latchet
latch
encloister
encage
doorcase
close
reclude
caged
shuttable
bolt
shuttering
striking plate
misclose
gate
screen door
doorlatch
crimped
cagework
trappable
swing door
clench
clutch
foldout
door opener
misgrip
tagtail
key
incarcerate
shutness
hocker
barring
inwall
doorflap
clinched
glassed
screw valve
sneck
cagelike
disnest
draft snake
snugger
bunkerish
sealed
crimp
force
breach
itself
deadlatch
on the latch
haggaday
unlatched
semiburrowing
death grip
clinch
self-locking
ductway
caging
deathlock
claudent
lockset
kickplate
rat-trap
incaverned
locken
fastened
ensnaring
lockable
latching
clenched
caged
shuttable
crimped
trappable
foldout
clinched
glassed
cagelike
bunkerish
sealed
unlatched
semiburrowing
self-locking
claudent
inlock
spring padlock
spring latch
locking
split
snag
clasp lock
tear
rip
rent
hook
click
relocker
microcage
snecket
hatch
iron cage
latchet
doorcase
bolt
shuttering
striking plate
screen door
doorlatch
cagework
swing door
clench
clutch
door opener
tagtail
key
shutness
hocker
barring
doorflap
screw valve
draft snake
snugger
crimp
breach
deadlatch
haggaday
death grip
ductway
caging
deathlock
lockset
kickplate
impen
unclench
crib
cage in
impound
cage
portcullis
unclutch
shut
latch
encloister
encage
close
reclude
misclose
gate
misgrip
incarcerate
inwall
sneck
disnest
force
hatch
clinch
noun
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- division of a group into opposing factions
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
adj
noun
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
verb
verb
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- To complain, to grumble
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- A bed for a child older than a baby.
- One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A wicker basket.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- The card game cribbage.
- A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- A small raft made of timber.
- A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
noun
- a catch for locking a door
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
verb
- fasten with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- take by theft
- make off with belongings of others
- hit with a hook
- catch with a hook
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
verb
noun
- The latch of a door.
- A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
verb
- To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- To emit a click.
- To snap the fingers.
- To visit (a web site).
- To make sense suddenly.
- Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
- To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- To get along well.
- To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
intj
noun
noun
noun
- A trapdoor.
- A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- The act of hatching.
- A gullet.
- A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- Development; disclosure; discovery.
- A bedstead.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
verb
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
- A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
- A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
- An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
verb
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- become closed
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- come to a close
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- engage at close quarters
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- come together, as if in an embrace
- draw near
- bring together all the elements or parts of
- bar access to
- fill or stop up
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
adj
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- close in relevance or relationship
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
adj
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- marked by fidelity to an original
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- crowded
- lacking fresh air
- of textiles
- strictly confined or guarded
- confined to specific persons
- fitting closely but comfortably
- used of hair or haircuts
- giving or spending with reluctance
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
adv
noun
noun
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
verb
- To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- To escape.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
adv
verb
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- To open a closed ion channel.
- To furnish with a gate.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
noun
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- Movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A way, path.
noun
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
adj
verb
noun
- The control mechanism by which a door is latched and unlatched.
- Any tactic, approach, or giveaway item employed by a salesman to capture the interest of a potential customer.
- Any of various devices designed to make opening a door easier.
- A communication technique designed to encourage someone to speak openly.
- Someone or something that provides someone with opportunities that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
- A crowbar-like tool used by firefighters to quickly force locked doors to open.
- Any of various devices to automatically open a door in response to a sensor or signal sent from a controller.
- Someone who opens doors.
noun
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- A keystone.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
adj
verb
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
noun
- A type of latch that operates by providing spring tension between a door or window and its frame.
- A threaded plastic tube used to clamp blood vessels during surgery.
- Moveable brackets for keeping small items secure on a shelf.
- A ring that fits tightly around a cable, rope or wire, holding it in place or preventing leakage around any hole through which it passes.
noun
- A grip on such a hold.
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
verb
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
verb
- To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- To compel (someone or something) to do something.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- To violate (a woman); to rape.
- To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
noun
- A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
- The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
- A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
- Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Legal validity.
- Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- Synonym of police force
- Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- A waterfall or cascade.
verb
- To set closely together; to close tightly.
- To clasp; to interlock.
- To embrace passionately.
- To make certain; to finalize.
- To hold firmly; to clench.
- To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
- To fasten securely or permanently.
noun
- Any of several fastenings.
- A passionate embrace.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
- The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
- A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
noun
- A similarly tight hold on something nonphysical.
- A close struggle between two opponents in which each tries to kill the other.
- A certain wrestling move that traps the opponent's leg.
- A struggle to destroy a force or principle to which one is opposed, or between two mutually incompatible principles.
- Rigor mortis, or a physical grip that is similarly inflexible and unyielding.
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