downtime
tabulatable
stave
shear
transcurrent
crash dive
uncertain period
dent
pinch point
nonsecular
disorient
disorientate
half-life
acceleration
trip
slip
paralysis
drop attack
buy time
timequake
usurpation
slow
impel
propel
bork
displacive
speedlessness
high-center
circulate
pass out
black out
torpor
high center
torpidity
rabbit hole
dislocation
zonk out
stall
high-centre
disruption
disequilibrium
time barrier
high centre
misclock
slowing
disconcert
untune
rubber-band
discompose
losing
discomfit
butterfly effect
upset
slow roll
diaschisis
drive
beat back
out of gear
force back
push back
repulse
panic
halt
jerk
skid
delayism
freeze
repel
transient
relaxation
loosening
deceleratory
undershift
faff
slackening
timeslip
chronophagous
athletics
sport
fast backward
isochronal
lithobraking
accelerate
jumpout
finger in the dyke
make pass
retardation
pass
make time
bog down
bottleneck
collision
bog
autonoesis
stumble
work off
erosion
tabulatable
transcurrent
nonsecular
slow
displacive
transient
deceleratory
chronophagous
isochronal
downtime
uncertain period
dent
pinch point
half-life
acceleration
trip
slip
paralysis
drop attack
timequake
usurpation
speedlessness
crash dive
torpor
torpidity
rabbit hole
dislocation
disruption
disequilibrium
time barrier
slowing
losing
butterfly effect
diaschisis
halt
jerk
skid
delayism
freeze
relaxation
loosening
undershift
faff
slackening
timeslip
athletics
sport
lithobraking
jumpout
finger in the dyke
retardation
collision
autonoesis
erosion
stall
stave
shear
crash dive
disorient
disorientate
buy time
impel
propel
bork
high-center
circulate
pass out
black out
high center
zonk out
stall
high-centre
high centre
misclock
disconcert
untune
rubber-band
discompose
discomfit
upset
slow roll
drive
beat back
force back
push back
repulse
panic
repel
fast backward
accelerate
make pass
pass
make time
bog down
bottleneck
bog
stumble
work off
trip
verb
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
noun
- The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
- A staff or walking stick.
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
verb
- To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- To make a vertical cut in coal.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
- To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- To deprive of property; to fleece.
- To reap, as grain.
- To change in direction or speed.
noun
- A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- Wind shear, or an instance thereof.
- A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- Forces that push in opposite directions.
verb
- To rapidly descend, intentionally or accidentally, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.
- To cause (something) to descend rapidly, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.
- To rapidly descend, in a manner that ends in a violent collision with (something).
- To cause (a submarine) to perform a crash dive.
- To perform a crash dive.
noun
- A rapid descent by a person or thing, ending in a violent collision.
- Three quarters of a front somersault, beginning on the feet and landing on the back.
- An emergency maneuver by a submarine in which it suddenly descends, especially to considerable depth, usually in order to escape an attack or avoid a collision.
noun
- A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- A slot or a wire in a reed
- A minor impact or effect made upon something.
- A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
verb
noun
- A point in between moving and stationary parts of a machine where an individual's body part may become caught, leading to injury
- The level of inventories of a commodity or product below which consumers become concerned about security of supply
- A kerb extension, a traffic calming measure consisting of an angled narrowing of the roadway
- A bottleneck, part of a process that is too slow and causes a delay.
- Cuspidal point, a type of singular point on an algebraic surface
noun
- The time it takes for an idea or a fashion to lose half of its influential power.
- The time required for half the nuclei in a sample of an isotope to undergo radioactive decay.
- The time it takes for a substance (drug, radioactive nuclide, or other) to lose half of its pharmacological, physiologic, or radiological activity.
- In a chemical reaction, the time required for the concentration of a reactant to fall from a chosen value to half that value.
noun
- The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
- The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
- The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
- The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
noun
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- a light or nimble tread
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
verb
noun
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- a young and slender person
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a small sheet of paper
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- an unexpected slide
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
verb
- move stealthily
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- pass out of one's memory
- move out of position
adj
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- at a slow tempo
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
adv
- without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
- showing a time that is earlier than the actual time
verb
verb
- To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
- To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
- To boink.
- To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
- (of a dog) To bark
noun
noun
noun
- A time-consuming tangent or detour, often one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.
- A bizarre world, where everyday rules do not apply.
- A way into such a world.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rabbit, hole. (The entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow.
- The initial clue that leads to an alternate reality game.
verb
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To come to a standstill.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
noun
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
verb
- cause to lose one's composure
- disturb the balance or stability of
- move deeply
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- form metals with a swage
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
adj
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- mildly physically distressed
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
noun
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- the act of upsetting something
- an improbable and unexpected victory
verb
- cause to move back by force or influence
- operate or control a vehicle
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- push, propel, or press with force
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- have certain properties when driven
- work as a driver
- move by being propelled by a force
- urge forward
- proceed along in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- (hunting) search for game
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a road leading up to a private house
- the trait of being highly motivated
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
verb
- To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- Of a computer system: to crash.
- To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
adj
- Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
- Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
noun
- Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
noun
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- A runner of a sled.
- (also losing skid) A losing streak.
- Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
- A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- A stepchild.
- A script kiddie.
- A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
verb
- To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- To cause to move on skids.
- To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
noun
noun
- an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
- the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
- fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level
verb
- stop moving or become immobilized
- change to ice
- be cold
- cause to freeze
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- be very cold, below the freezing point
- change from a liquid to a solid when cold
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- anesthetize by cold
- suddenly behave coldly and formally
adj
- Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- Intermediate.
- Occasional; isolated; one-off
- having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
- Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
- Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- Remaining for only a brief time.
noun
- A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
- A homeless person.
- homestay
- A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
- Something that is transient.
- A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
noun
- an occurrence of control or strength weakening
- (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers
- (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount
- the act of making less strict
noun
- A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
- An underhang caused by seismic shift.
- An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
verb
adj
noun
- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
- the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine
- a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
- someone who engages in sports
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
verb
verb
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- Grow; increase.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
adj
verb
noun
- Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- Extreme stupidity.
- A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
- A suspension which resolves upwards.
- The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
verb
- cause to pass
- go across or through
- move past
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- for time to move forward
- place into the hands or custody of
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- travel past
- come to pass
- go unchallenged; be approved
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- pass over, across, or through
- transmit information
- disappear gradually
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- be superior or better than some standard
- accept or judge as acceptable
- allow to go without comment or censure
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- throw (a ball) to another player
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
noun
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- (military) a written leave of absence
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a difficult juncture
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- a complimentary ticket
- a usually brief attempt
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
adj
noun
- The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
- A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
- One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
- The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
- The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
- Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
- Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
- In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊖); see Erosion (morphology).
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