flexion
flexure
anaclasis
dorsoflexion
extension
recurvation
wrench
bending
reach
ungual
retroflection
counterextension
greenstick fracture
bendable
diadochokinesis
waxy
pliant
pliable
articulation
osteoligamentous
hookedness
dorsiflexion
ankle lock
abarticulation
flex
crossboned
bend
crook
point one's toes
camptomelia
commissure
coarticulation
joint
osteoclasis
byen
fondu
bowing
osteo-
break
twist
plantarflex
bonesetting
crouch
ossi-
extend
huckle bone
osseously
kneejointed
astragalus
supinate
spread
talipes valgus
incomplete fracture
bane
bone-shakingly
anklebone
introflexion
flection
talus
bow
ossiform
extroflection
jointy
kneejoint
astragal
jointing
downflex
flexible
oblique fracture
jointage
retroflexion
leg
Buck's extension
elbow
arcuation
head
bendability
pliability
pretzelled
fracture
plantar reflex
arthrology
ankle-deep
thighbone
exsection
bowbent
knee-deep
couch
insertion
bendable
waxy
pliant
pliable
osteoligamentous
crossboned
kneejointed
ossiform
jointy
flexible
pretzelled
ankle-deep
bowbent
knee-deep
osseously
bone-shakingly
flexion
flexure
anaclasis
dorsoflexion
extension
recurvation
bending
reach
ungual
retroflection
counterextension
greenstick fracture
diadochokinesis
articulation
hookedness
dorsiflexion
ankle lock
abarticulation
crook
camptomelia
commissure
coarticulation
osteoclasis
byen
fondu
bowing
bonesetting
crouch
huckle bone
astragalus
joint
talipes valgus
incomplete fracture
bane
anklebone
introflexion
flection
talus
extroflection
kneejoint
astragal
jointing
oblique fracture
jointage
retroflexion
leg
Buck's extension
arcuation
head
bendability
pliability
fracture
plantar reflex
arthrology
thighbone
exsection
insertion
wrench
flexure
flex
bend
point one's toes
crook
joint
break
twist
plantarflex
extend
supinate
spread
bow
downflex
elbow
couch
noun
- The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- A file extension.
- University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
- A part of a building that has been extended from the original
- semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase
- The state of being extended
- A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
verb
- To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
- To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
- To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
- To pull or twist violently.
- To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
noun
- In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
- An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
noun
- 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 distance traversed between tacks.
- 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 joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).
- The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
- The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.
- The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
noun
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- A pothook.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
verb
- To become bent or hooked.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- To bend, or form into a hook.
adj
verb
- To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
noun
- Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- A marijuana cigarette.
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
- Prison.
- The penis.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- A thing.
- A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
adj
noun
prefix
verb
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
noun
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
prefix
verb
- To straighten (a limb).
- To reenlist for a further period.
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- To increase in extent.
- To cause to increase in extent.
- To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
verb
- To twist the foot so the weight is on the outer edge.
- To twist the forearm so as to turn the palm of the hand backwards if the forearm is pointing up, upwards if the forearm is horizontal, or forwards if the arm is pointing down; to twist the forearm by contracting the biceps brachii; to twist the right forearm clockwise or the left forearm counterclockwise.
verb
- To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
- To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
noun
- The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- The difference between bidding and asking price.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- The act of spreading.
- An expanse of land.
- Something that has been spread.
- A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- A numerical difference.
- The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
noun
verb
- To become bent or curved.
- To defer (to something).
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To make something bend or curve.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To debut.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
adj
noun
noun
- The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
- One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
- One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
- Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
- In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
- A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
- A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
- An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
- A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
- An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
- The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
- A stage of a journey, race etc.
- A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
- Something that supports.
- One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
verb
verb
- To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
- To make someone quit or lose their job so that someone else can get it.
- To nudge, jostle or push.
noun
- The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
- Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
- Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
- A hit with the elbow.
- Two nearby crossings of a rope.
noun
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
adj
verb
- To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
noun
- The den of an otter.
- A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- Psychotherapy.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- A bed, a resting-place.
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