English words for 'The practice of scrapping something.'
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noun
verb
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- make into scrap or refuse
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- to fight
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- have a disagreement over something
noun
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- The smallest amount.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
- (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
- (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
- (ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
- To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
- refuse entrance or membership
- not accept as true
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- show unwillingness towards
- elude, especially in a baffling way
- refuse to let have
noun
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- A tear or rip in some surface.
- (video games) An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.
- A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- A division or schism.
- (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
verb
- grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
- let for money
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- engage for service under a term of contract
- (intransitive, informal) To be leased or let for rent.
- (transitive, informal) To grant a lease in return for rent.
- simple past and past participle of rend
- (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
- (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
adj
noun
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- (slang) A fart.
- (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- (Canada, slang) A joyride.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
verb
- move precipitously or violently
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
- (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
- (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
- (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good; rock
- (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- (slang) To fart audibly.
- (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
intj
noun
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
verb
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
noun
name
noun
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- (informal, idiomatic) An overwhelming victory or success.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
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verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
noun
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- the murder of a competitor
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
verb
- (transitive) To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To become disorganised.
- (transitive) To break or separate into pieces.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
- (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
- (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- make a break in
- cause to go into a solution
- break violently or noisily; smash
- laugh unrestrainedly
- break or cause to break into pieces
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- release ice
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- close at the end of a session
- set or keep apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- come to an end (of a state)
- disband
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
noun
verb
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
noun
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
adj
verb
- To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
- To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- To adopt (an animal).
- To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
- (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- free from harm or evil
- take forcibly from legal custody
noun
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- A liberation, freeing.
- A rescuee.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- (law, largely obsolete) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
noun
- The act of removing something.
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- degree of figurative distance or separation
verb
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
noun
verb
adj
intj
noun
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- worthless people
- nonsensical talk or writing
- (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- (chiefly Canada, US, metonymic) A container into which things are discarded.
- (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
verb
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- express a totally negative opinion of
- (US) To make into a mess.
- (US) To beat soundly in a game.
- (US) To discard.
- (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
noun
- anything that is cast aside or discarded
- Anything discarded.
- getting rid of something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
- (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
- A discarded playing card in a card game.
- (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
verb
noun
- The dumping of rubbish.
- (music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
- (Australia) A competition where entrants aim to tip (predict) the outcomes of sporting events.
- The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
- The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
verb
verb
- (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (Herefordshire) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- take greedily; take more than one's share
noun
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (informal) A quahog (clam).
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
noun
verb
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
adj
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
noun
adj
verb
verb
- collect discarded material
- (transitive, of discarded goods) To put to use.
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) To rescue.
- (Philippines) To perform summary execution.
- (transitive, logic) To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.
- (Philippines) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
noun
- property or goods saved from damage or destruction
- the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
- the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
- (Philippines) Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as ships, houses, and vehicles, so that they can be sold on to be reused or recycled.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
verb
- collect discarded material
- feed on carrion or refuse
- clean refuse from
- remove unwanted substances from
- (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
adv
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- From a place, hence.
- Without restraint.
- So as to remove or use up something.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- out of existence
- indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily
- in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)
- in reserve; not for immediate use
- out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
- in a different direction
- freely or at will
- so as to be removed or gotten rid of
- from one's possession
adj
- At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
- Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
- (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
- Misspelling of aweigh.
- (golf) Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
- (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
- used of an opponent's ground
- not present; having left
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
intj
verb
noun
- That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
- A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
- A dead body; carrion.
- The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
- viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
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adj
verb
- (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
- (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
- (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
- (ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
- To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
- refuse entrance or membership
- not accept as true
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- show unwillingness towards
- elude, especially in a baffling way
- refuse to let have
noun
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- A tear or rip in some surface.
- (video games) An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.
- A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- A division or schism.
- (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
verb
- grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
- let for money
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- engage for service under a term of contract
- (intransitive, informal) To be leased or let for rent.
- (transitive, informal) To grant a lease in return for rent.
- simple past and past participle of rend
- (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
- (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
adj
noun
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- (slang) A fart.
- (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- (Canada, slang) A joyride.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
verb
- move precipitously or violently
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
- (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
- (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
- (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good; rock
- (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- (slang) To fart audibly.
- (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
intj
noun
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
verb
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
noun
name
noun
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- (informal, idiomatic) An overwhelming victory or success.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
noun
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- the murder of a competitor
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
noun
- The act of removing something.
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- degree of figurative distance or separation
verb
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
verb
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- make into scrap or refuse
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- to fight
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- have a disagreement over something
noun
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- The smallest amount.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
noun
verb
adj
intj
noun
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- worthless people
- nonsensical talk or writing
- (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- (chiefly Canada, US, metonymic) A container into which things are discarded.
- (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
verb
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- express a totally negative opinion of
- (US) To make into a mess.
- (US) To beat soundly in a game.
- (US) To discard.
- (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
noun
- anything that is cast aside or discarded
- Anything discarded.
- getting rid of something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
- (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
- A discarded playing card in a card game.
- (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
verb
noun
- The dumping of rubbish.
- (music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
- (Australia) A competition where entrants aim to tip (predict) the outcomes of sporting events.
- The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
- The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
verb
noun
noun
adj
verb
noun
- That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
- A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
- A dead body; carrion.
- The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
- viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
verb
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- make into scrap or refuse
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- to fight
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- have a disagreement over something
noun
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- The smallest amount.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
verb
- (transitive) To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To become disorganised.
- (transitive) To break or separate into pieces.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
- (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
- (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- make a break in
- cause to go into a solution
- break violently or noisily; smash
- laugh unrestrainedly
- break or cause to break into pieces
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- release ice
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- close at the end of a session
- set or keep apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- come to an end (of a state)
- disband
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
noun
verb
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
noun
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
adj
verb
- To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
- To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- To adopt (an animal).
- To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
- (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- free from harm or evil
- take forcibly from legal custody
noun
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- A liberation, freeing.
- A rescuee.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- (law, largely obsolete) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
verb
- (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (Herefordshire) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- take greedily; take more than one's share
noun
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (informal) A quahog (clam).
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
verb
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
adj
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
verb
- collect discarded material
- (transitive, of discarded goods) To put to use.
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) To rescue.
- (Philippines) To perform summary execution.
- (transitive, logic) To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.
- (Philippines) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
noun
- property or goods saved from damage or destruction
- the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
- the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
- (Philippines) Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as ships, houses, and vehicles, so that they can be sold on to be reused or recycled.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
verb
- collect discarded material
- feed on carrion or refuse
- clean refuse from
- remove unwanted substances from
- (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
noun
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- worthless people
- nonsensical talk or writing
- (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- (chiefly Canada, US, metonymic) A container into which things are discarded.
- (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
verb
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- express a totally negative opinion of
- (US) To make into a mess.
- (US) To beat soundly in a game.
- (US) To discard.
- (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
adv
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- From a place, hence.
- Without restraint.
- So as to remove or use up something.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- out of existence
- indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily
- in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)
- in reserve; not for immediate use
- out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
- in a different direction
- freely or at will
- so as to be removed or gotten rid of
- from one's possession
adj
- At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
- Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
- (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
- Misspelling of aweigh.
- (golf) Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
- (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
- used of an opponent's ground
- not present; having left
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter