seaway
aft
weatherboard
freeboard deck
fore and aft
prow
weather roll
aftermost
sternway
boatwise
submarine
taffrail
water level
head
beam
bowsprit
underwater
extravasate
box off
muzzler
poop
forward
spinnaker
buttock
rother
dolphin striker
chine
astern
tackling
forepeak
weather bow
martingale
forebody
sny
afterpeak
board
afterbody
shipboard
sternport
lapper
tack
outboard
bateau neckline
scaphoid
nautiform
gamber
spiling
rhumb sailing
ketch
overside
tail
steerboard
blanketing
cutwater
quarter
after part
stern
stool
wheel
liner
peroqua
head reach
water line
athwart
wheelhouse
counter
helm port
leg
afore
lee
scupper
head sea
skullcup
topside
saxboard
round to
sheer
spring
head to wind
beakhead
complement
load line
above-water
at the helm
breakwater
gun rest
deckside
gunwale
gunnel
vasicentric
entrance
lee-ho
swordboat
pushpit
weatherly
aftermost
underwater
extravasate
astern
outboard
scaphoid
nautiform
head to wind
above-water
deckside
vasicentric
weatherly
fore and aft
boatwise
overside
athwart
afore
seaway
aft
weatherboard
freeboard deck
prow
weather roll
sternway
submarine
taffrail
water level
head
beam
bowsprit
muzzler
poop
forward
spinnaker
buttock
rother
dolphin striker
chine
tackling
forepeak
weather bow
martingale
forebody
sny
afterpeak
board
afterbody
shipboard
sternport
lapper
tack
bateau neckline
gamber
spiling
rhumb sailing
ketch
tail
steerboard
blanketing
cutwater
quarter
after part
stern
stool
wheel
liner
peroqua
head reach
water line
wheelhouse
counter
helm port
leg
lee
scupper
head sea
skullcup
topside
saxboard
sheer
spring
beakhead
complement
load line
breakwater
gun rest
gunwale
gunnel
entrance
swordboat
pushpit
box off
round to
noun
- A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
- A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
- Any submarine plant or animal.
- A boat that can go underwater.
- A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
verb
- To sink or submerge oneself.
- To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
- To operate or serve on a submarine.
- To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop).
adj
noun
- The waterline of a ship.
- Of a route that follows a riverbank or shoreline.
- An instrument to show the level by means of the surface of water in a trough, or in upright tubes connected by a pipe.
- The level of a body of water, especially when measured above a datum line.
- The level of the water table below ground.
noun
- The bow of a vessel.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- the broad side of a ship
- a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather
- long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
- a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- (nautical) breadth amidships
- a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts
verb
- smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression
- emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- express with a beaming face or smile
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
adj
- Beneath the water line of a vessel.
- In difficulty, especially financially.
- Of an option, having a strike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.
- Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
- Having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
adv
verb
noun
noun
- The front part of a vessel.
- One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
- The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
adv
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- Into the future.
- At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
adj
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
verb
noun
noun
- A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
- A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
verb
noun
- The side of a ship.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- A rebound.
- The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
- A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
- A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
- Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- A level or stage having a particular layout.
- A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
verb
- To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
- To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- To cover with boards or boarding.
- To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- Antonyms: alight, disembark
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
noun
- A headsail that overlaps the mast.
- One who wraps or folds.
- A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
- A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
- One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
- Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.
verb
noun
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- sailing a zigzag course
verb
noun
noun
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- the time of the last part of something
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
verb
noun
- A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
- The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
- Cloth for making blankets.
- A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
- Provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
noun
- the rear part of a ship
- one of four equal parts
- a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
- one of four periods into which the school year is divided
- a fourth part of a year; three months
- one of the four major division of the compass
- a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
- an unspecified person
- piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
- clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
verb
noun
- A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
- A footstool.
- A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- Feces, excrement.
- A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- A throne.
- A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
- A seat with a back; a chair.
- Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
verb
noun
- a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
- a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- a handwheel that is used for steering
- forces that provide energy and direction
- game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
verb
noun
- A ship of the line.
- Someone who fits a lining to something.
- Something with a specified number of lines.
- person born in a certain year (XX liner); person who belongs to a certain line
- A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
- A removable cover or lining
- A basic salesperson.
- A line drive.
- A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
- The pamphlet which is contained inside an album of music or movie
- A formal no show sock.
- A lining within the cylinder of a steam engine, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
noun
noun
- the outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water.
- Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded.
- Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines.
- The level at which water meets land along the shore of a body of water.
- The line corresponding to the surface of the water touching any submerged object or body.
noun
- The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
- A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
- A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
- A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
- An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
- A person's area of authority or expertise.
- The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
noun
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
adj
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
adv
noun
- (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
- one of the supports for a piece of furniture
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- the limb of an animal used for food
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
- a section or portion of a journey or course
noun
noun
- The surface of a ship’s hull that is above the water line.
- The structure and assembly of modules above the jacket or gravity base sub structure.
- The outer side of a round of beef.
- The structure and assembly of modules on the deck of any floating installation.
- The side or part of something that is at the top.
adj
adv
noun
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
verb
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
adj
noun
- The whole working force of a vessel.
- Fullness (of the moon).
- A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- The numeric complement of a number.
- Synonym of alexin
- An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
- A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
- A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
noun
- The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
- The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
- The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
- The right to go in.
- The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
- The action of entering, or going in.
- The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
- The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry.
- The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
verb
noun
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