hooking
crosscheck
cross-check
hold
cover
come-along
checking
block
self-defense
misdefense
defending
riposte
kitty bar the door
counter
man up
gamesmanship
hittee
en garde
shirt-front
counteradvantage
daylight robbery
hack
piling on
dirty trick
presentation
defensive
disarmament
defend
guard
defence
shepherd
foul
shackle
underhold
diving
blocker
screen
clip
stranglehold
bout
diver
overtackle
low blow
rough
gunpoint
snooker
zone
baffling
glissade
blank
spear
anticompetitor
hook
off one's game
blockade
tenable
pull punches
clinch
defendability
defense
bare-knuckle
penetrate
tackleable
smother
skin
ward
shootout
appel
penalties
hold the ring
measure swords with someone
tank
prise de fer
sticklerism
toehold
winkle squeeze
interference
counterdefensive
self-protection
attack au fer
withstander
one-on-one
protection
slamming
bloody
circumventive
self-defence
one-upmanship
man-to-man
puck-handling
wallop
defending
defensive
anticompetitor
tenable
bare-knuckle
tackleable
counterdefensive
one-on-one
circumventive
man-to-man
kitty bar the door
hooking
crosscheck
hold
come-along
checking
self-defense
misdefense
counter
gamesmanship
hittee
counteradvantage
daylight robbery
hack
piling on
dirty trick
presentation
disarmament
defence
foul
shackle
underhold
diving
blocker
stranglehold
bout
diver
low blow
gunpoint
zone
baffling
glissade
blockade
clinch
defendability
defense
ward
shootout
appel
penalties
prise de fer
sticklerism
toehold
winkle squeeze
interference
self-protection
attack au fer
withstander
protection
slamming
self-defence
one-upmanship
puck-handling
wallop
cross-check
cover
block
riposte
man up
shirt-front
hold
defend
guard
shepherd
screen
clip
overtackle
rough
snooker
blank
spear
hook
pull punches
penetrate
smother
skin
hack
hold the ring
measure swords with someone
tank
bloody
noun
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
verb
- be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game
- provide with a covering or cause to be covered
- form a cover over
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- provide for
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
- travel across or pass over
- be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism
- hold within range of an aimed firearm
- to take an action to protect against future problems
- hide from view or knowledge
- protect or defend (a position in a game)
- maintain a check on; especially by patrolling
- protect by insurance
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- invest with a large or excessive amount of something
- help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities
- be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of
- spread over a surface to conceal or protect
- cover as if with a shroud
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- put something on top of something else
- play a higher card than the one previously played
- sit on (eggs)
- clothe, as if for protection from the elements
noun
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations
- a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink
- a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else
- a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent)
verb
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
noun
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- 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.
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
adj
adv
verb
- To vigorously guard the opponent to whom one is assigned.
- To "be a man about it"; to do the things a man is traditionally expected to do, such as taking responsibility for the consequences of one's actions; displaying bravery or toughness in the face of danger, adversity, or a challenge; providing for one's family, etc. (Compare man (“brace oneself, steel oneself”).)
- (Of personnel) to assemble, each person manning (attending to) his station, prepared for the departure of an aircraft, ship, etc. (Compare man (“supply with staff; take up position to operate”).)
- To staff adequately; to staff up; to successfully fill all needed labor positions. (Compare man (“supply with staff”).)
verb
- To aggressively threaten an opponent by standing toe to toe with them while or before verbally or physically abusing them.
- To knock down an opponent by colliding with them chest-to-chest (Australian rules football) or tackle them by grabbing their chest by their shirt front and wrestling them to the ground (rugby league football).
noun
- Conduct which unfairly deprives an opponent of an advantage or a win; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see daylight, robbery.
- The practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
noun
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
noun
- An illegal strategy wherein players tackle an opposing player.
- The process by which multiple people pick on, complain about or list the faults of their target.
- Doing more and more (of something), especially when it is inappropriate or problematic, such as by continuing to break a diet
- The process by which additional combatants join an ongoing fight or argument when they think they know who will win so that they will be on the winning side.
- The steady addition of more problems to an already problematic situation or circumstance.
noun
- Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent.
- The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician.
- The preparation of antigen fragments during the immune response.
- The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth.
- A dramatic performance.
- Gender presentation; gender expression.
- The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
- An award given to someone on a special occasion.
- A lecture or speech given in front of an audience.
- The act of presenting, or something presented.
- Money given as a wedding gift.
- The specification of a group by generators and relators.
adj
- Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.
- Intended for defence; protective.
- In a state or posture of defense.
- Performed so as to minimise risk.
- Displaying an inordinate sensitivity to criticism or intrusion; oversensitive; thin-skinned.
- Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack.
- Intended to deter attack.
noun
verb
- protect against a challenge or attack
- to keep watch over
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
- take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence
noun
- a person who keeps watch over something or someone
- the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage
- a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
- a posture of defence in boxing or fencing
- the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
- a military unit serving to protect some place or person
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- the duty of serving as a sentry
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles
- a position on a basketball team
noun
- The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
- A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
- The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
- Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
- Something used to oppose attacks.
- An argument in support or justification of something.
noun
- A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
- A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
- A length of cable or chain equal to 12+¹⁄₂ fathoms or 75 feet, or later to 15 fathoms.
- A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.
- A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
- A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger; normally used in pairs joined by a chain.
verb
noun
- The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure a undeserved penalty.
- The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
- The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.
- Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.
adj
noun
- One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
- A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
- A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
- A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
- A blocker bet.
- Any of various medications that block (inhibit) the activity of a chemical messenger or its receptors, such as cardiac conduction modifiers (e.g., alpha-blockers), gastric acid inhibitors (H₂ histamine blockers), puberty blockers, and others.
- A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
- One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
- An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
- A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
verb
- To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To present publicly (on the screen).
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- To fit with a screen.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- A disguise; concealment.
verb
- To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- To grip tightly.
- To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To strike with the hand.
- to grab or take stealthily
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
noun
- A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- A newspaper clipping.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- The condition of something, its state.
- A removable magazine of a firearm.
- A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
noun
- An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
- A roller derby match.
- A fighting competition.
- A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
- A boxing match.
- A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.
prep
verb
verb
- To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
- To render rough; to roughen.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
adv
noun
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
adj
- Turbulent.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Difficult; trying.
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Not polished; uncut.
- Harsh-tasting.
- Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Not smooth; uneven.
noun
- A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
- A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
- A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
- A band or stripe extending around a body.
- A circuit; a circumference.
- Any given region or area of the world.
- Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
- A belt or girdle.
- A semicircular area in front of each goal.
- The strike zone.
- A high-performance phase or period.
- A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- A frustum of a sphere.
verb
verb
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- To make void; to erase.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- To become blank.
- To be temporarily unable to remember.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
adj
- Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
noun
- Infertile semen.
- A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
- Blank verse .
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
- A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
verb
- To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
- To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
- To pierce with a spear.
- To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
adj
noun
- An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
- A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
- The sprout of a plant, stalk
- In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
- A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
- A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
- The feather of a horse.
verb
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
noun
- Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
- The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
verb
noun
- The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
- Any of several fastenings.
- A passionate embrace.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
- A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
verb
noun
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- protection from harm
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- the justification for some act or belief
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- a structure used to defend against attack
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
verb
- To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina, mouth or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
verb
- To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- To cook in a close dish.
- To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- To be suffocated.
- to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- To daub or smear.
noun
verb
- To use tricks to go past a defender.
- To injure the skin of.
- To high five.
- To become covered with skin.
- To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- To apply a skin to (a computer program).
noun
- A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
- That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- person, chap
- Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Rolling paper for cigarettes.
noun
- A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- An object used for guarding.
- A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- Land tenure through military service.
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- A division of a forest.
verb
noun
verb
- To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- To stand; to tolerate.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
noun
- A prison cell, or prison generally.
- A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
- A reservoir or dam.
noun
- The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
verb
noun
- the activity of protecting someone or something
- a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury
- defense against financial failure; financial independence
- the condition of being protected
- kindly endorsement and guidance
- the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
- A heavy blow, punch.
- A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
- A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, psychological force.
verb
- To wrap up temporarily.
- To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- To rush hastily.
- To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
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