counterflooding
counterflood
downflooding point
bulkhead
metacentric stability
collision bulkhead
launch
between wind and water
in the wake of
rigol
blockship
prismatic coefficient
ship
hog
run aground
metacenter
scupper
bale out
bail out
metacentre
spiling
dogshore
center of immersion
centre of immersion
centre of buoyancy
studdingsail
center of buoyancy
dam
nacelle
lap-streaked
tack
clincher-built
draft
lap-streak
freeboard deck
lap-strake
lap-straked
draught
aquaplaning
clinker-built
camber
hydroplaning
gybe
load line
valve
kite
bulwark
bilge
buoy
grounding
typhoon shelter
abeam
water level
lock
even keel
lock chamber
Plimsoll mark
waterlog
Plimsoll line
stabilizer
sea room
Plimsoll
harbor
tend
turtleback
lay to
waterbreak
crowd
trim
waterplane
tonnage
stank
cofferdam
garage
river
billyboy
overside
stabilisation
stabilization
cut a feather
downflooding angle
heave-to
chain tower
landing stage
seajacking
shell
disembark
squat effect
floatboard
comb
weatherly
afloat
guy
spring
lap-streaked
clincher-built
lap-streak
lap-strake
lap-straked
clinker-built
abeam
weatherly
abeam
overside
afloat
counterflooding
downflooding point
bulkhead
metacentric stability
collision bulkhead
rigol
blockship
prismatic coefficient
hog
metacenter
scupper
metacentre
spiling
dogshore
center of immersion
centre of immersion
centre of buoyancy
studdingsail
center of buoyancy
dam
nacelle
tack
draft
freeboard deck
draught
aquaplaning
camber
hydroplaning
ship
gybe
load line
valve
bulwark
bilge
buoy
grounding
typhoon shelter
water level
lock
even keel
lock chamber
Plimsoll mark
Plimsoll line
stabilizer
sea room
Plimsoll
harbor
turtleback
waterbreak
trim
waterplane
tonnage
launch
stank
cofferdam
garage
river
billyboy
stabilisation
stabilization
downflooding angle
chain tower
landing stage
seajacking
shell
squat effect
floatboard
guy
spring
counterflood
launch
ship
run aground
bale out
bail out
kite
waterlog
tend
lay to
crowd
cut a feather
heave-to
disembark
comb
noun
- A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
- Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.
- A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.
- A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
- A retaining wall along a waterfront.
verb
- To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
- To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- To start to operate.
- To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- To release; to put onto the market for sale
- To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
noun
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
- An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
- The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
verb
- To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- To trade or send a player to another team.
- To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- To pass (from one person to another).
- To go all in.
- Leave, depart, scram.
- To send by water-borne transport.
- To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
- To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- To embark on a ship.
- To put or secure in its place.
- To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
- To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
noun
- A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
- A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
- The third card of the Lenormand deck.
noun
- the effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop
- An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.
- A quahog (clam)
verb
- To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
noun
- A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
- An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
- A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.
- A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
- A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
- A reservoir.
- Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
- A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
intj
verb
adj
noun
- The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH hulled boat.
- A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew.
- The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola.
- The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine.
noun
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
- A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
- A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- A thumbtack.
- The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
verb
- To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To add something as an extra item.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- to tack (something) onto (something)
- To place the tack on a horse; often paired with "up".
noun
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a preliminary sketch of a design or picture
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- any of the various versions in the development of a written work
- a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace
- a dose of liquid medicine
- compulsory military service
- a large and hurried swallow
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
verb
noun
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- a large and hurried swallow
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a dose of liquid medicine
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
verb
noun
- A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
- The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
- An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
- The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
- The curvature of an airfoil.
- A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
verb
noun
- A manoeuvre in which the stern of a sailing vessel crosses the wind, typically resulting in the forceful and sudden sweep of the boom from one side of the vessel to the other.
- A sudden shift of a sail's angle, or a sudden change in the direction that a vessel is sailing in.
- A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation.
verb
- To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
- Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
- Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.
noun
- One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction
- One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
- One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
- One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
- A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
- A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
- A vacuum tube.
- A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
- One of the leaves of a folding-door, or a window-sash.
verb
verb
- To deflect sideways in the water.
- To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- To move rapidly; to rush.
- To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- To steal.
- To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
noun
- A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- An aeroplane or aircraft.
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- The stomach; the belly.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- A rapacious person.
- A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
noun
- The collision of a ship with ground beneath the surface of the water.
- Fundamental knowledge or background in a field or discipline.
- The absorption of energy through visualized "roots" descending from oneself into the ground, using chi.
- The act by which a child is grounded (forbidden from going out, using electronics, etc.).
- The return to a fully conscious state after a psychedelic experience.
- The interconnecting metal chassis/frame of a device, appliance, machine, or metal raceway via a designated conductor to earth at the service panel. It may be bare or covered, and does not carry current in normal operation.
- The background of embroidery, etc.
- The prevention of aircraft takeoff because of government action.
adv
- Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
- On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative.
adj
- Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
- Beaming, shining (especially with reference to a person's face or eyes).
- The island was directly abeam of us.
prep
noun
- The waterline of a ship.
- Of a route that follows a riverbank or shoreline.
- An instrument to show the level by means of the surface of water in a trough, or in upright tubes connected by a pipe.
- The level of a body of water, especially when measured above a datum line.
- The level of the water table below ground.
noun
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
verb
- fasten with a lock
- keep engaged
- become rigid or immoveable
- hold in a locking position
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
noun
- A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
- Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it.
- A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
- An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
- An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
- For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
noun
- A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
- Any place of shelter.
- A mixing box for materials.
- A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return - Sarah Orne Jewett
verb
verb
- To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
- To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
- To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
- To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
- To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
- To contribute to or toward some outcome.
- To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
noun
- A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, designed to shed seawater quickly.
- An armor layout with an armored deck which slopes downwards towards the sides of the ship and connects to the lower edge of the main belt armor, designed to deflect shells striking the ship on trajectories close to horizontal.
- A primitive stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.
- Anything having the shape of a turtle's back (that is, its shell).
- A library binding of a mass market paperback with a generic hardcover.
- Any plant of the genus Psathyrotes of annual and perennial forbs and low subshrubs native to dry areas of southwestern North America.
noun
- Any artificially constructed system or device to halt the destructive flow of water.
- A barrier built across a steeply sloping road or trail in order to direct the flow of water and prevent erosion.
- A breakwater.
- The time elapsed from an underwater explosion or seismic event until the arrival of the resulting energy wave at a hydrophonic detector.
- The formation of beads of water on a smooth surface, especially when used as an indicator of impurities on the surface.
- A break in the smooth surface of a body of water, such as a ripple, whitecap, or the roughness that results from water flowing over an uneven surface.
verb
- To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- To press together or collect in numbers
- To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- To push, to press, to shove.
- To fill by pressing or thronging together
- To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
noun
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- A fiddle.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
noun
- The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
- The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
adj
verb
- To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- To dress; to make smooth.
- To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
adv
noun
- The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
- The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet.
- A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc.
- The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time.
- The total shipping of a fleet or nation.
noun
- A dam or mound to stop water.
- A stink; a foul smell.
- Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
verb
- To surround or guard.
- To stumble or lurch.
- To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- To trample.
- To pack in tightly.
- To stink; to smell bad.
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- To cause to smell bad.
- simple past tense of stink
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
adj
noun
- A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
- A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
- A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
- A petrol filling station.
- A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
verb
noun
- A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
- The last card dealt in a hand.
- One who rives or splits.
- A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
verb
noun
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A person's ear.
- Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
verb
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
verb
- To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
adv
- In a vessel at sea or on another body of water.
- Floating.
- Covered with water (bearing floating objects).
- Floating in the air; flowing freely; not tied, braided, etc.
- Having enough money to continue to operate; (of a private individual, family, etc.) able to pay one's expenses, able to keep one's head above water.
- Covered, overspread (with or in something).
noun
- A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to)
- A person (see usage notes).
- A man, fellow.
verb
noun
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
verb
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
adj
English words for 'The action of deliberately flooding spaces on one side (of a ship, boat, or other vessel) in order to counterbalance flooding occurring on the opposite side and keep the vessel on an even keel.'
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