hold
rake
odds
vigorish
settling
winner
purchase
gambling system
score
Yankee
bank
velvet
scalp
stakeholder
juice
parlay
double up
power of the pencil
Wellington
overround
sharbing
stakes
bet
proportioned
wager
stake
vested interest
book
lotto
melon cutting
parimutuel
sweepstakes
ingratiating
the house always wins
lot
have the best of it
hardway
lucky streak
lotterylike
run of luck
game
gaff
banking game
Laddies
majoritively
in it
play
house
proposition bet
markup rate
layoff
winning
winnings
Blucher
prop bet
raise
short
spread bet
pricemaking
markup
martingale
majoritize
past-posting
settler
hedger
make interesting
betting
book token
totalisator
croupier
patent
totalizator
winnability
totalizer
reward
spread betting
pari-mutuel machine
winnership
totaliser
lambda
omega
I'll see you and raise you
two-up
implied odds
fold equity
Heinz
wong
make book
prize
oddsmaking
lay off
stakehorsing
housie
proportioned
ingratiating
lotterylike
short
majoritively
hold
rake
odds
vigorish
settling
winner
gambling system
score
Yankee
bank
velvet
stakeholder
juice
power of the pencil
Wellington
overround
sharbing
stakes
bet
wager
stake
vested interest
book
lotto
melon cutting
parimutuel
sweepstakes
lot
hardway
lucky streak
run of luck
parlay
banking game
house
proposition bet
markup rate
layoff
winning
winnings
prop bet
raise
spread bet
pricemaking
markup
martingale
past-posting
settler
hedger
betting
book token
totalisator
croupier
patent
totalizator
winnability
totalizer
reward
spread betting
pari-mutuel machine
winnership
totaliser
lambda
omega
two-up
implied odds
fold equity
Heinz
prize
oddsmaking
stakehorsing
housie
play
purchase
scalp
parlay
double up
score
have the best of it
game
gaff
play
majoritize
make interesting
raise
wong
make book
lay off
noun
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- 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.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- 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.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- 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.
noun
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- The ratio of winnings to stake in betting situations.
- The ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not happening.
- I'd say the odds are strongly in favor of the sun rising tomorrow morning.
- An advantage given to a weaker opponent in order to equalize the game when playing casually, usually by removing one of the stronger player's pieces or by giving the weaker player more time.
verb
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
noun
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
noun
- An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- The music of a movie or play.
- In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- A robbery.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- Subject.
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- A prostitute's client.
- A sexual conquest.
- Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- Twenty, 20.
- The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
verb
- To win money by gambling.
- To extract a bribe.
- To earn points in a game.
- To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
- To obtain something desired.
- To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- To acquire or gain.
- To obtain a sexual favor.
intj
noun
- A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator. A minimum two selections must win to gain a return.
- A native or inhabitant of New England.
- An Anglo, as opposed to someone with French ancestry; a native or inhabitant of the rest of the United States.
- A large triangular headsail used in light or moderate winds and set on the fore topmast stay. Unlike a genoa it does not fill the whole fore triangle, but is set in combination with the working staysail.
- A native or inhabitant of the United States.
- A player that plays for the New York Yankees.
- A native or inhabitant of the Northern United States.
noun
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- a long ridge or pile
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
verb
noun
- Money acquired by gambling.
- The drug dextromethorphan.
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- A female chinchilla; a sow.
verb
- To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- to retract.
- To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
- To soften; to mitigate.
adj
verb
- To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
- To remove the skin of.
- To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
- To destroy the political influence of.
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- To remove the grass from.
noun
- The top; the summit.
- A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
- A bed or stratum of shellfish.
- The top of the head; the skull.
- A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
noun
- The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
- Vitality, strength.
- Political power.
- Semen.
- Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
- The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.
- Petrol; gasoline.
- Electricity.
- Liquor.
- Steroids.
- A soft drink.
- A beverage made of juice.
- A liquid from a plant, especially fruit.
- The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container
- The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
verb
noun
- In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.
- Meat baked in a puff pastry.
name
- A neighborhood of Nanaimo, British Columbia.
- An unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada, also Wellingtons and Wellingtons Station.
- A village in Palm Beach County, Florida.
- A ghost town and railroad community in King County, Washington.
- A village in Lovejoy Township, Iroquois County, Florida.
- A village in Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO4948).
- A statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated place and community in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
- A town in Sumner County, New South Wales.
- A city, the county seat of Sumner County, Kansas.
- A small town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
- A market town in Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ6511).
- An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Alabama.
- A habitational surname from Old English from the places in England.
- A locality near Gosforth, Copeland borough, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY0704).
- An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Gogebic County, Michigan.
- A market town in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST1320).
- A community in Yarmouth district municipality, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
- by extension, the Government of New Zealand.
- A tiny township in South Australia.
- A community in Queens County, Nova Scotia.
- A community and rural municipality of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- A town in the Western Cape, South Africa.
- A residential neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
- A home rule city in Jefferson County, Kentucky; a suburb of Louisville.
- A village in Lorain County, Ohio.
- A small city in Carbon County, Utah.
- A community in the Regional Municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia; a suburb of Halifax.
- A city, the county seat of Collingsworth County, Texas.
- A small city in Piscataquis County, Maine.
- Wellington Region, a region in the south of the North Island, New Zealand, which includes the capital.
- A former name of a small incorporated fishing and lumbering village in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, now called Dover.
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.
- A town in The Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India.
- The capital city of New Zealand.
noun
- the money risked on a gamble
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
verb
noun
- A stake, often financial, in a particular outcome.
- An indefeasible right or title, distinguished from a contingent interest, which could be defeated (i.e. cease) if a certain event occurred.
- An exceptionally strong interest in protecting or promoting something to one's own advantage.
- A fixed right granted to an employee, especially under a pension plan.
- A group of people or organizations with such a stake, especially those that seek to control an existing system or activity from which they derive benefit.
noun
- A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- A major division of a long work.
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- Records of the accounts of a business.
- A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
- Six tricks taken by one side.
- Four of a kind.
- The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- The script of a musical or opera.
- A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
- The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- Any source of instruction.
- The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
- A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
verb
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- To receive the highest grade in a class.
- To leave.
- To reserve (something) for future use.
- To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- simple past tense of bake
- To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
- To travel very fast.
noun
- A prize in a lottery.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- A number of people taken collectively.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
- Allotment; lottery.
- An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
- All members of a set; everything.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
verb
- To gamble.
- To play card games, board games, or video games.
- To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adj
- Willing and able to participate.
- Injured, lame (of a limb).
- That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
- Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
noun
- The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- A school subject during which sports are practised.
- A particular instance of playing a game.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- wild animals hunted for food.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
verb
- To gamble.
- To use a gaff, especially to land a fish.
- To cheat or hoax.
- To doctor or modify for deceptive purposes.
- To affix gaffer tape to, or cover with gaffer tape.
noun
- Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
- A place of residence.
- A trick or con.
- A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
- The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
- A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
- A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the male genitalia tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
verb
- make bets
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- replay (as a melody)
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- use to one's advantage
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
noun
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- the members of a religious community living together
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- aristocratic family line
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- a social unit living together
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
verb
noun
noun
- A bet that is laid off, i.e. placed with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
- A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
- A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
noun
noun
- A bet that increases the previous bet.
- A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- A cairn or pile of stones.
- A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
verb
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To open, initiate.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
adj
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
adv
- Unawares.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- With a negative ownership position.
- Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
prep
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
noun
- The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.
- An increase in price.
- The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.
- The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
noun
- A gambling strategy in which one doubles the stake after each loss.
- A strap attached to the sword handle, preventing a sword being dropped if disarmed.
- A piece of harness used on a horse to keep it from raising its head above a desired point.
- A spar, or piece of rigging that strengthens the bowsprit.
- A stochastic process for which the conditional expectation of future values given the sequence of all prior values is equal to the current value.
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- The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
- Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.
- Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
- A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
- That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
- A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
noun
- The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
- A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
- A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
- An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
- A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
- A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
- A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
- A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.
adj
- Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
- Protected by a legal patent.
- Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
- To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
- Explicit and obvious.
- Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
- Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
- Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
verb
- To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
- To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
- To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
noun
- The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
- The junction of the lambdoid and sagittal sutures of the cranium.
- Unit representation of wavelength.
- The cosmological constant.
- A lambda expression.
- A lambda baryon.
- The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet.
noun
- The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
- The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
- Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
- An omega male.
- In omegaverse fiction, a person of a submissive secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.
- The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
- A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
noun
- That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
- That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
- Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
- A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
- An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
- Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
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verb
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- To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
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