ambuscade
bushwhacking
beleaguered
sally
sortie
reconnaissance in force
hostile
battlegroup
counterambush
picket
trench warfare
flying party
glory hole
ground attack
file
military formation
war party
ambush
armor
armour
testudo
square
spearhead
chalk
phalanx
intertroop
military position
position
mechanized cavalry
vexillum
ambushing
outpost
wait
walking fire
act of war
battle line
ground offensive
troop
shelling
armament
wound
combat injury
injury
countertrench
zeriba
charge
besieged
ambushed
detachment
collateral damage
demonstration
lost in action
conflict
waylay
battle
fight
parade
engagement
battle station
battalion
body count
echelon
round
bushwhack
bridgehead
armored personnel carrier
rear front
foothold
forlay
artillery
minelaying
trooper
Comanche
artillery unit
gharry
squadron
shock troop
mining
soldiery
air raid
garrison
troops
commando
fort
air attack
emplacement
mass of maneuver
stand-to
hit squad
garrison town
flying camp
military personnel
bushwhacking
beleaguered
intertroop
besieged
ambushed
lost in action
ambuscade
sally
sortie
reconnaissance in force
hostile
battlegroup
counterambush
picket
trench warfare
flying party
glory hole
ground attack
file
military formation
war party
ambush
armor
armour
testudo
square
spearhead
chalk
phalanx
military position
position
mechanized cavalry
vexillum
ambushing
outpost
wait
walking fire
act of war
battle line
ground offensive
troop
shelling
armament
wound
combat injury
injury
countertrench
zeriba
charge
detachment
collateral damage
demonstration
conflict
battle
fight
parade
engagement
battle station
battalion
body count
echelon
round
bridgehead
armored personnel carrier
rear front
foothold
artillery
minelaying
trooper
Comanche
artillery unit
gharry
squadron
shock troop
mining
soldiery
air raid
garrison
troops
commando
fort
air attack
emplacement
mass of maneuver
stand-to
hit squad
garrison town
flying camp
military personnel
ambush
waylay
bushwhack
forlay
adj
noun
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- A kind of stonefly.
- A willow
- An excursion or side trip.
- An object made from the above trees' wood
- A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A wren.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
verb
noun
- An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
- An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth.
- An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
- An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
- An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
- An attacking move.
- Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”)
- A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.
verb
noun
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
verb
noun
- A military trench.
- An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
- A bell-mouth spillway: a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
- A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
- A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
- The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
- An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
- The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
- A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
- A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
- A generally untidy place.
noun
- A small detachment of soldiers.
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.
- Course of thought; thread of narration.
- A roll or list.
- An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
verb
- To submit a formal request to some office.
- To corrupt.
- To commit (official papers) to some office.
- To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- To move in a file.
- To submit (a story) to a newspaper or similar publication.
noun
- A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
- A cell in a grid.
- The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
- The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- Cigarette.
- The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- A mortarboard.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A vat used for fermentation.
verb
- To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To hold a quartile position respecting.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
- To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
adv
adj
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- Even; tied
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- Socially conventional; boring.
- Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
noun
- A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- The favorite in a sporting event.
- The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- Tailor's chalk.
- A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
- A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
verb
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
adj
noun
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a job in an organization
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- the appropriate or customary location
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- a rationalized mental attitude
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
verb
noun
noun
- A group of soldiers; military forces.
- Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
- A group of meerkat families living together.
- A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- A company of actors; a troupe.
- A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
- A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- A group of baboons.
- A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- An individual soldier or member of a military force.
verb
noun
- An artillery bombardment.
- The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
- Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.
- An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
- Grain from which the husk has been removed.
noun
- a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
- an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
- wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted
noun
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- An instruction.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- An electric charge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Cannabis.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A measured amount of explosive.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
verb
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- To impute or ascribe.
- To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- To commit a charging foul.
- To add to or represent on.
- To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- To assume as a bearing.
- To replenish energy.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
noun
noun
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- a disagreement or argument about something important
verb
noun
- The body of soldiers thus assembled.
- Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.
- Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.
- Synonym of road, used in place names.
- A row of shops beside a street.
- Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses.
- Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.
- Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.
- Synonym of show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.
- A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.
- The body of promenaders thus assembled.
verb
- Synonym of show off: to display or reveal prominently or ostentatiously, especially in a kind of procession.
- To march through or along.
- To march past.
- To assemble soldiers for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
- To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
- To walk in a row led by one parent, often trailed by the other.
- To move slowly through or among.
- To march impressively or ostentatiously.
- Synonym of promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.
noun
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- a meeting arranged in advance
- a mutual promise to marry
- the act of giving someone a job
- employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
- contact by fitting together
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group
noun
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A stage in a competition.
- A stage or level of a game.
- The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- The play after each deal.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
verb
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- To shape something into a curve.
- To turn past a boundary.
- To advance to home plate.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- To do ward rounds.
- To become shaped into a curve.
- To finish; to complete; to fill out.
adj
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Large in magnitude.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Plump.
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- Vaulted.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
noun
- A military helicopter, the RAH-66 Comanche.
- A member of a Native American ethnic group residing especially in Texas and Oklahoma.
- A light single-engine aircraft, the Piper PA-24 Comanche.
name
- The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by these people, sometimes classified as a variety of Shoshone.
- A small city in Stephens County, Oklahoma, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States.
- The nation of these people.
- A city, the county seat of Comanche County, Texas, United States.
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