English words for 'The blowpipe itself.'
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noun
- A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
- (originally British, dialectal and US) A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
- (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
- A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
- The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
- an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder
adj
- That is operated by blowing
- That makes a noise when blown.
- (of skin) Delicate, smooth, and flawless.
- Secret and vulnerable to being revealed.
- That one could give a blowjob to.
- Capable of being blown or blown away; that can be subjected to blowing.
- (of an egg) That can be emptied by blowing; that does not contain any large solid developing bird.
- That can blow, or expel air.
- That can be blown up or blown off; subject to explosive forces.
- (electronics) That can cease to function when overloaded.
- That can be achieved or produced by blowing.
noun
- (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
- An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
- A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
- (UK, slang) The drug mephedrone.
- A low-pitched hum or buzz.
- (Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
- (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
- A humming or deep murmuring sound.
- (chiefly military) Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
- One who performs menial or tedious work.
- (slang, derogatory) One who lacks the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
- (BDSM) In dronification kink, one who is mindless and obedient to a dominant, characterized by a detached and robotic identity and an anonymous appearance, typically composed of a latex suit and gas mask.
- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- an unchanging intonation
- an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
verb
noun
- The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
- A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
- (historical) Unadapted borrowing from French bourdon; a pilgrim's staff.
- A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
- The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
- The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
verb
noun
- (chemistry) A narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture.
- A weapon through which darts may be shot by blowing; a blowgun.
- (glassblowing) A long narrow pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown.
- a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat
- a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
noun
- (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
- A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
- (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
- (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
- (horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
- (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
- (historical, rare) A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
- A bed of loose straw.
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- (by extension) Any makeshift bedding place.
- (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
- A potter's wheel.
- board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
- a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
- a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
- a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
- the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
verb
noun
noun
- (music) The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.
- (zoology) A liplike part of various invertebrates.
- (entomology) A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side.
- (botany) The lip of a labiate corolla.
- a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva)
noun
- A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
- Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
- A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- An act of whistling.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
- (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
- an inexpensive fipple flute
- acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
- the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
- the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
verb
- (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
- (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- (ambitransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
- (intransitive, Opus Dei, slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.
- (ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
- move, send, or bring as if by whistling
- make whistling sounds
- utter or express by whistling
- move with, or as with, a whistling sound
- make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
- give a signal by whistling
noun
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
verb
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
noun
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
verb
- play on a pipe
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
verb
- blow the clarion
- proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
- (figuratively) To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
- (also figuratively) Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
- (intransitive) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
- To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
adj
noun
- a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
- (music, historical or poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
- (music) An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
- (music) The middle register of the clarinet.
- (poetic) The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
- (heraldry) A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.
noun
- (glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- Misspelling of yolk.
- Something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- (Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.
- (Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- (nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- (electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- (chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- (Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- (Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- (Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- (bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- (video games) A similar device used as a game controller.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- (aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- (chiefly England, especially Kent; also Scotland; historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
- (electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- (agriculture) A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- (clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
- an oppressive power
- two items of the same kind
- fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
verb
- (agriculture) To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
- put a yoke on or join with a yoke
- link with or as with a yoke
- become joined or linked together
noun
- a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- an ornament or utensil made of brass
- impudent aggressiveness
- the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments
- an alloy of copper and zinc
- a memorial made of brass
- Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.
- A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
- (uncountable) The color of brass (etymology 1 sense 1).
- Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
- (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
- (countable, slang) A prostitute.
- (military, business or other organizations, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymic) High-ranking officers: the brass hats.
- Inferior composition.
- (music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.
adj
verb
noun
- a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
- a groove or furrow in cloth etc. (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
- a tall narrow wineglass
- A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
- An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
- (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
- A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
- (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
- (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
- A long French bread roll, baguette.
- A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
- A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
verb
noun
- a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
- The Western concert flute (also called transverse flute, C flute or Boehm flute) is a side-blown woodwind instrument made of metal or wood.
- (music) Any type of flute that is held sideways when played.
noun
- (plumbing) A flapper valve.
- One who or that which flaps.
- (hunting) A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck.
- (colloquial, chiefly historical) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
- (climbing) Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.
- (colloquial, historical) A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially.
- (slang) The hand.
- A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.
- a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress
noun
adj
- (music) Furnished with lips.
- (anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
- (dentistry, of an incisor or canine) On the side facing the lips. See mesial.
- (linguistics, phonetics) Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
- of or relating to the lips of the mouth
- relating to or near the female labium
noun
- A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
- (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
- A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
- breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
verb
verb
- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
- (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
- (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
- (transitive, British) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
- (transitive, British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- (intransitive) To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.
- (transitive) To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.
- (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- form into a wreath
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- extend in curves and turns
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- arrange or coil around
- catch the scent of; get wind of
noun
- A bird, the dotterel.
- (figurative) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- (figurative) News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
- (figurative) A tendency or trend.
- (philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
- (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- (music) A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
- (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- an indication of potential opportunity
- breath
- the act of winding or twisting
noun
- A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note.
- A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
- A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
- a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
noun
- organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
- a conduit to carry off smoke
- flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
- In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
- A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
adj
noun
- A tobacco pipe that produces smoke well when used.
- (baseball, informal) A fastball.
- (slang) An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
- A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
- A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
- A smoking car on a train.
- (slang, by extension) Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
- A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
- A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
- (slang) Synonym of stag film.
- (slang) A two-stroke engine.
- a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke
- a person who smokes tobacco
- a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only)
noun
- a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together
- the vocal organ of a bird
- (archaeology, Egyptology) Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers.
- (ornithology, zootomy) The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join.
- (neurology, pathology) Any of several abnormal tube-shaped structures in the body, especially a rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity in the brain stem or within the spinal cord.
- (music) A set of panpipes.
verb
- make a sound as if blown
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
adj
intj
noun
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
verb
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
noun
- A noisy puffing sound.
- A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
- A coarse or stupid fellow.
- (vulgar slang) The anus.
- (vulgar slang) The vagina.
- (scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.
adj
adv
verb
adj
- (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
- Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
- (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
- Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
- (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
- Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
- marked by repeated turns and bends
- of a path e.g.
noun
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
- (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
- (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
- (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”).
- Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
- The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
- Something wound around another thing.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
- Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
- (British, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
- (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
- the act of winding or twisting
verb
noun
- a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler
- Of an internal combustion engine, any of several pipes, connected in series, that carry waste gases away from the engine and vent it to the air.
- On a steam locomotive, a pipe which takes away steam exhausted from a cylinder.
- The final pipe in this series.
noun
- The gullet or windpipe.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- (rail transport) Short for station throat
- The front part of the neck.
- (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat
- a passage resembling a throat in shape or function
- an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
verb
noun
- A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
- (originally British, dialectal and US) A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
- (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
- A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
- The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
- an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder
noun
- (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
- An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
- A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
- (UK, slang) The drug mephedrone.
- A low-pitched hum or buzz.
- (Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
- (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
- A humming or deep murmuring sound.
- (chiefly military) Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
- One who performs menial or tedious work.
- (slang, derogatory) One who lacks the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
- (BDSM) In dronification kink, one who is mindless and obedient to a dominant, characterized by a detached and robotic identity and an anonymous appearance, typically composed of a latex suit and gas mask.
- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- an unchanging intonation
- an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
verb
noun
- The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
- A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
- (historical) Unadapted borrowing from French bourdon; a pilgrim's staff.
- A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
- The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
- The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
noun
- (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
- A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
- (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
- (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
- (horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
- (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
- (historical, rare) A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
- A bed of loose straw.
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- (by extension) Any makeshift bedding place.
- (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
- A potter's wheel.
- board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
- a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
- a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
- a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
- the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
verb
noun
noun
- (music) The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.
- (zoology) A liplike part of various invertebrates.
- (entomology) A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side.
- (botany) The lip of a labiate corolla.
- a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva)
noun
- A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
- Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
- A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- An act of whistling.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
- (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
- an inexpensive fipple flute
- acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
- the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
- the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
verb
- (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
- (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- (ambitransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
- (intransitive, Opus Dei, slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.
- (ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
- move, send, or bring as if by whistling
- make whistling sounds
- utter or express by whistling
- move with, or as with, a whistling sound
- make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
- give a signal by whistling
noun
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
verb
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
noun
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
verb
- play on a pipe
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
noun
- (glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- Misspelling of yolk.
- Something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- (Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.
- (Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- (nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- (electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- (chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- (Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- (Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- (Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- (bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- (video games) A similar device used as a game controller.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- (aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- (chiefly England, especially Kent; also Scotland; historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
- (electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- (agriculture) A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- (clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
- an oppressive power
- two items of the same kind
- fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
verb
- (agriculture) To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
- put a yoke on or join with a yoke
- link with or as with a yoke
- become joined or linked together
noun
- a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- an ornament or utensil made of brass
- impudent aggressiveness
- the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments
- an alloy of copper and zinc
- a memorial made of brass
- Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.
- A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
- (uncountable) The color of brass (etymology 1 sense 1).
- Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
- (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
- (countable, slang) A prostitute.
- (military, business or other organizations, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymic) High-ranking officers: the brass hats.
- Inferior composition.
- (music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.
adj
verb
noun
- a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
- a groove or furrow in cloth etc. (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
- a tall narrow wineglass
- A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
- An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
- (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
- A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
- (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
- (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
- A long French bread roll, baguette.
- A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
- A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
verb
noun
- a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
- The Western concert flute (also called transverse flute, C flute or Boehm flute) is a side-blown woodwind instrument made of metal or wood.
- (music) Any type of flute that is held sideways when played.
noun
- (plumbing) A flapper valve.
- One who or that which flaps.
- (hunting) A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck.
- (colloquial, chiefly historical) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
- (climbing) Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.
- (colloquial, historical) A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially.
- (slang) The hand.
- A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.
- a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress
noun
adj
- (music) Furnished with lips.
- (anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
- (dentistry, of an incisor or canine) On the side facing the lips. See mesial.
- (linguistics, phonetics) Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
- of or relating to the lips of the mouth
- relating to or near the female labium
noun
- A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
- (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
- A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
- breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
verb
noun
- A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note.
- A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
- A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
- a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
noun
- organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
- a conduit to carry off smoke
- flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
- In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
- A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
adj
noun
- A tobacco pipe that produces smoke well when used.
- (baseball, informal) A fastball.
- (slang) An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
- A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
- A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
- A smoking car on a train.
- (slang, by extension) Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
- A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
- A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
- (slang) Synonym of stag film.
- (slang) A two-stroke engine.
- a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke
- a person who smokes tobacco
- a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only)
noun
- a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together
- the vocal organ of a bird
- (archaeology, Egyptology) Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers.
- (ornithology, zootomy) The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join.
- (neurology, pathology) Any of several abnormal tube-shaped structures in the body, especially a rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity in the brain stem or within the spinal cord.
- (music) A set of panpipes.
noun
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
verb
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
noun
- A noisy puffing sound.
- A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
- A coarse or stupid fellow.
- (vulgar slang) The anus.
- (vulgar slang) The vagina.
- (scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.
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noun
- a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler
- Of an internal combustion engine, any of several pipes, connected in series, that carry waste gases away from the engine and vent it to the air.
- On a steam locomotive, a pipe which takes away steam exhausted from a cylinder.
- The final pipe in this series.
noun
- The gullet or windpipe.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- (rail transport) Short for station throat
- The front part of the neck.
- (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat
- a passage resembling a throat in shape or function
- an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
verb
verb
noun
- (chemistry) A narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture.
- A weapon through which darts may be shot by blowing; a blowgun.
- (glassblowing) A long narrow pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown.
- a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat
- a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
verb
- blow the clarion
- proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
- (figuratively) To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
- (also figuratively) Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
- (intransitive) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
- To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
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- a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
- (music, historical or poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
- (music) An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
- (music) The middle register of the clarinet.
- (poetic) The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
- (heraldry) A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.
noun
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
verb
- play on a pipe
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
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- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
- (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
- (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
- (transitive, British) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
- (transitive, British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- (intransitive) To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.
- (transitive) To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.
- (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- form into a wreath
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- extend in curves and turns
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- arrange or coil around
- catch the scent of; get wind of
noun
- A bird, the dotterel.
- (figurative) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- (figurative) News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
- (figurative) A tendency or trend.
- (philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
- (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- (music) A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
- (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- an indication of potential opportunity
- breath
- the act of winding or twisting
verb
- make a sound as if blown
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
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- That is operated by blowing
- That makes a noise when blown.
- (of skin) Delicate, smooth, and flawless.
- Secret and vulnerable to being revealed.
- That one could give a blowjob to.
- Capable of being blown or blown away; that can be subjected to blowing.
- (of an egg) That can be emptied by blowing; that does not contain any large solid developing bird.
- That can blow, or expel air.
- That can be blown up or blown off; subject to explosive forces.
- (electronics) That can cease to function when overloaded.
- That can be achieved or produced by blowing.
adj
- (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
- Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
- (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
- Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
- (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
- Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
- marked by repeated turns and bends
- of a path e.g.
noun
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
- (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
- (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
- (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”).
- Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
- The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
- Something wound around another thing.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
- Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
- (British, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
- (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
- the act of winding or twisting