shine
cricketing
cricket ball
rock
Acheta
cricket field
genus Acheta
B
sightscreen
six-stitcher
cricketly
tape ball
one-day match
Gryllidae
family Gryllidae
cricket
cricket ground
guard
crickety
snick
on
leg side
tree cricket
cherry
block
deep point
wagon wheel
pitch
stump
on deck circle
bowling
leg
width
bowl-out
stroke
screen
pace
innings
on drive
Bazball
maker's name
batter's box
cricketainment
fine
take
attack
Twenty20
square leg
leg glance
cricket equipment
call
blockhole
Trent Bridge
cambuca
leather
off drive
limited overs cricket
infield fly
box
full count
tour match
French cut
silly point
Lord's
foul line
top
whites
ground
over
meat
batsmanship
WSC
open the face
ground ball
wicket taker
payoff pitch
softball
The Hundred
bunt
gate
willow
nightwatchman
point
squash
Oval
check swing
cricket match
deep square leg
batlike
cricketer
off side
compo
length
cricketing
crickety
on
fine
batlike
cricketly
shine
cricket ball
rock
Acheta
cricket field
genus Acheta
B
sightscreen
six-stitcher
tape ball
one-day match
Gryllidae
family Gryllidae
cricket ground
guard
snick
leg side
tree cricket
cherry
block
deep point
wagon wheel
pitch
stump
on deck circle
bowling
leg
width
bowl-out
stroke
screen
pace
innings
on drive
Bazball
maker's name
batter's box
cricketainment
take
Twenty20
square leg
leg glance
cricket equipment
call
attack
blockhole
cambuca
leather
off drive
limited overs cricket
infield fly
box
full count
tour match
French cut
silly point
foul line
top
whites
ground
over
meat
batsmanship
ground ball
wicket taker
payoff pitch
softball
The Hundred
gate
willow
nightwatchman
point
squash
check swing
cricket match
deep square leg
cricketer
off side
compo
length
cricket
attack
open the face
shine
bunt
noun
- The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- Shoeshine.
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
- Brightness from a source of light.
- Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- Sunshine.
- A liking for a person; a fancy.
verb
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To reflect light.
- To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
noun
- A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
- An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
- Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
- A mistake.
- Synonym of stone.
- The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
- A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
- Distaff.
- The flax or wool on a distaff.
- A large hill or island having no vegetation.
- A basketball.
- An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
- A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
- A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
- A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
- Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
- An Afrikaner.
- An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
- A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
- The striped bass.
- A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
- A lump or cube of ice.
- The huss or rock salmon.
- A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
verb
- To move gently back and forth.
- To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
- To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
- To sway one's body as a stim.
- To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
- to make love to or have sex with.
- To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
- To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
- To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
- To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
- To cause to shake or sway violently.
- To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
- To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
- to be cool.
noun
- the number of balls faced by a batsman
- The seventh note in the C major scale.
- An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
- Bass.
- a B cell.
- A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
- The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
- Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
- Bishop
- Alternate or secondary part, as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with A, which is the primary part.
- The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money
name
symbol
suffix
character
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
- A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
- A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
- An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
- A wooden footstool.
- An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
- A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
- An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
- In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
noun
- The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- A state of caution; posture of defence.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- A player playing a position named guard.
- A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
- A squad responsible for protecting something.
- A watchchain.
- The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
- A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- A garda; a police officer.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
- A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
- An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
verb
- To fasten by binding; to gird.
- To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
adj
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
prep
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
verb
noun
noun
- A cricket ball.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
- A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- Cherry red.
- Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
- A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
- A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- The burning tip of a cigarette.
adj
noun
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
verb
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
verb
noun
- Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- 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.
- 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.
- The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- 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
noun
- The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.
- The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.
- The state of being wide.
- The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
- A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.
noun
- The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- A masterful or effective action.
- The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the boat, or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A specific combination of movements of the arms and legs which, when repeated, causes the swimmer to advance through the water; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a swimming style.
- A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
- The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers; also, the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
verb
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
noun
- An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- A disguise; concealment.
verb
- To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To present publicly (on the screen).
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- To fit with a screen.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
- Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
- A group of donkeys.
- Easter.
- A step taken with the foot.
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
- Speed or velocity in general.
adj
verb
prep
adj
- Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Of superior quality.
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Good-looking, attractive.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- Sunny and not raining.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
verb
- To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- To change by fine gradations.
- To pay a fine.
adv
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
noun
- Something that is fine; fine particles.
- A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- The end of a musical composition.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
noun
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
verb
- To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- To apply violent force to someone or something.
- To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
noun
- Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- The beginning of active operations on anything.
- The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
noun
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- Need; necessity.
- A decision or judgement.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
verb
- To require, demand.
- To scold.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
noun
noun
- The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- A coffin.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- The vagina.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especiallycommon box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- A predicament or trap.
- A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.
- A prison cell.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- Preceded by the: television.
- A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- The penalty area.
- Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
verb
- To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
- To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- To strike with the fists; to punch.
- To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
noun
adj
noun
- One of the two lines on the edge of a field marking the area inside which a fair ball may be hit.
- A line from which a player takes a free throw
- In long jump, a line before which the jumper must start their jump with no part of the foot touching the line.
- A line between the lane and the approach, which the bowler must not cross.
noun
- The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- A top quark.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A lid, cap or cover of a container.
- A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- the part of something that is usually the top.
- A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin
- (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
- A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- Oral stimulation of the male member, a blowjob.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere
- A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
adv
adj
- Situated on the top of something.
- Best; of the highest quality or rank.
- Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
verb
- To anally penetrate in gay sex.
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- To commit suicide.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- To murder.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- To cover with another dye.
- To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
noun
- The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- Terrain.
- The pit of a theatre.
- A soccer stadium.
- Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- The bottom of a body of water.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- Soil, earth.
- A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
adj
verb
- To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- To place something on the ground.
- To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
noun
adj
adv
noun
- The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- A penis.
- The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
- Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- The best or most substantial part of something.
- A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- A meathead.
verb
- To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- To headbutt affectionately.
- To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- To spring or rear up.
- To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
- To swell out.
- To push with the horns; to butt.
noun
- A push or shove; a butt.
- The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
- A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
- The act of bunting.
- The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
- A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
noun
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- 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.
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
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
- Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
verb
noun
- The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- duration.
- A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- Total extent.
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