minor premiership
preseason
test match
last four
match game
matched game
postseason
round robin
tour
yesterseason
grand final
season
semi
slam
renew acquaintances
playoff
subtournament
pre-tournament
rubber
series
last eight
conference
intraseasonal
Final Four
ultimate
year-over-year
pretournament
prematch
championship
quarters
rolleo
seasonally
close of play
superfinal
prechampionship
tourney
antepenultimate
preseasonally
cup final
premier
quarter
cup
interseasonal
half-time
three-quarter time
FA Cup
fixture
knockout
playdown
perennial
postgame
second half
double-double
seed
quarter time
topscore
World Cup
group stage
grand slam
footy tipping
treble
semifinalist
runathon
seasonlong
postmatch
premiership quarter
the Ashes
preseries
final
romp
string
grandstand finish
dead rubber
penalty shootout
scoreline
seasonable
reign
seasonably
dead week
ice
motorkhana
annually
quad
close
reseason
time trial
interseason
stretch
Test match
rematch
intercompetition
sectional
intraseasonal
ultimate
year-over-year
pretournament
prematch
prechampionship
antepenultimate
interseasonal
perennial
postgame
seasonlong
postmatch
preseries
seasonable
interseason
intercompetition
seasonally
preseasonally
seasonably
annually
minor premiership
preseason
test match
last four
match game
matched game
postseason
round robin
tour
yesterseason
grand final
season
semi
slam
playoff
subtournament
pre-tournament
rubber
series
last eight
conference
Final Four
championship
quarters
rolleo
close of play
superfinal
tourney
cup final
premier
quarter
cup
half-time
three-quarter time
knockout
playdown
second half
double-double
quarter time
World Cup
group stage
grand slam
footy tipping
treble
semifinalist
runathon
premiership quarter
final
romp
string
grandstand finish
dead rubber
penalty shootout
scoreline
dead week
motorkhana
quad
time trial
stretch
Test match
rematch
sectional
renew acquaintances
fixture
seed
topscore
reign
ice
preseason
close
reseason
noun
noun
- The part of a tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn.
- A form of bet on the full set of possible combinations from a larger group (of teams, racehorses, etc.), such as the outcomes A+B, B+C and A+C from a group ABC.
- A petition signed in a circular fashion to disguise the order in which it was done.
- A method of dividing loot amongst a party of players by having the game assign in turn loot to a player or an enemy corpse to loot to a player.
- A form of trade, a series of exchanges in which each person in turn receives items of the same value from the previous person, finally returning to the original donor. For example in (philately) a stamp collector sends a packet of stamps to the next person on a list, who then takes the stamps he wants, replacing them with like-valued stamps, and then passing the packet to the next person on the list, until the packet ultimately returns to the original sender.
- A letter, with copies to multiple recipients, usually at Christmastime and often enclosed with a card, giving family news of interest to the sender.
- The MIDI technique of using different sampled versions of the same sound for successive notes, to avoid an unnaturally repetitive effect.
- A method of dividing labor between several similar subsystems, assigning tasks to each of them in turn in an attempt to use resources more equitably.
noun
- A set of competitions which make up a championship.
- A circuit of snooker tournaments
- A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
- A tour of duty.
- A street and road race, frequently multiday.
- A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
- A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
- A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
- A closed trail.
verb
noun
- The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.
- A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
- A part of a year when something particular happens.
- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
- A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
- The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
verb
- To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
- To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
- To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
- To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
- To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
noun
- One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
- An insult.
- Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- A slambook.
- The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
- A slam dunk.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- A sudden impact or blow.
- A poetry slam.
- A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
verb
- To defeat or overcome in a match.
- To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- To make a slam bid.
- To occupy and busy with a high workload.
- To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
- To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
- To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- To drink off, to drink quickly.
- To strike forcefully with some implement.
noun
- An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
- A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
- An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
- Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
- Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
- An eraser.
- One who practises massage.
- A condom.
- The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
- One who rubs down horses.
- Tires, particularly racing tires.
- Someone or something which rubs.
- A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
- The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
- The cushion of an electric machine.
- Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
- The game of rubber bridge.
verb
adj
noun
- (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams
- similar things placed in order or happening one after another
- a serialized set of programs
- a periodical that appears at scheduled times
- (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other
- a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection
- (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions
noun
- A constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season.
- A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
- A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
- An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
- The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
- A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
- A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
- A formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
verb
adj
noun
- The semifinal round, or an appearance in it generally.
- The final two rounds of the NCAA Division I tournament.
- The four regional champions of the NCAA Division I tournament, one of whom will become the national champion.
- The final round of the continent-wide Euroleague club basketball competition, featuring four teams with one becoming champion.
- An appearance in the Final Four.
adj
- Final; last in a series.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen at some time; eventual.
- Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
noun
noun
adv
noun
- The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
- The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
- The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
- The prime minister.
- The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
adj
verb
noun
- A quarterfinal.
- A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
- A region or place.
- The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
- A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
- Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
- A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
- A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
- Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
- Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
- A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
- The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
- One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
- A fourth part of a hundredweight.
verb
- To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- To quartersaw.
adj
noun
- The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
- A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
- The contents of said vessel.
- A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
- A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
verb
noun
- The interval between the two halves of a sports match.
- A tempo in which the rhythm is emphasized so that it seems to have half as many metric divisions (e.g. emphasizing the start of every other bar rather than every bar).
- Half or approximately half the number of hours usually worked in a specified period.
- The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value.
adj
adv
verb
noun
- A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
- A scheduled match.
- A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.
- A lighting unit; a luminaire.
- Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
- A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
noun
- A tournament in which a team or player must beat the opponent in order to progress to the next round.
- Something wildly popular, entertaining, or funny.
- The deactivation of anything.
- The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.
- A very attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.
- The deactivation of a particular gene.
- A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal.
- A creature engineered with a particular gene deactivated.
- An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
- A simple game for two or more players, derived from basketball.
adj
adj
- Appearing again each year; annual.
- Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, or all the time.
- Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent.
- Continuing without cessation or intermission for several years, or for an undetermined or infinite period; neverending or never failing; perpetual, unceasing.
- Of a plant: active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
noun
verb
- To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- To grow to maturity.
- To produce seed.
- To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
noun
- A fragment of coral.
- The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
- A precursor.
- An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- Any small seed-like fruit.
- Semen.
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
- Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- Race; generation; birth.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
noun
- The winning of all available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- The bid and winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand.
- The situation in which a racer starts from pole position, then wins first place while leading during the entire race, while also recording the fastest lap of the race.
- The hitting of a home run with the bases loaded.
- The situation in which the jammer laps the opposing team's jammer, scoring five points.
noun
- Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
- Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
- Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
- The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
- The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
- A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
adj
verb
name
- A series of such test matches.
- A series of Test cricket matches played between England and Australia.
- A trophy played for by England and Australia in Test cricket; in the form of a small urn containing the ashes of a cremated cricket stump or set of bails.
- A nominal trophy contested by England and Australia in other sports, especially rugby league.
adj
noun
- In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- A stringed instrument.
- The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- A series of items or events.
- The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- A thread
- The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- Such a structure considered as a substance.
- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- Cannabis or marijuana.
- The points made in a game of billiards.
- A stringcourse.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
verb
- To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- To put strings on (something).
- To put (items) on a string.
verb
- To put out a team for a match.
- To become ice; to freeze.
- To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- To make icy; to freeze.
- To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- To murder.
- To cool with ice, as a beverage.
noun
- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds.
- Any substance having the appearance of ice.
- Money paid as a bribe.
- The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
- Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
- Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
noun
- A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- A quadriplegic person.
- A skate with four wheels.
- A quadcopter.
- A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre.
- Quadruplex videotape.
- The quadriceps muscle.
- A quadrupel beer.
- A quad bike (from quadricycle)
- The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- A quadruplet (infant).
- A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
- A serving of four shots of espresso.
- A quadrilateral.
- A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
- A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.
adj
verb
verb
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
verb
noun
- Any competitive event in which competitors are timed rather than racing against each other.
- An unpaced race in which riders or teams leaving at regular intervals are timed over a preset course or distance, the winner being the rider or team to finish in the fastest time.
- A mode in which the main goal is to complete levels—or, in some cases, the entire game—as quickly as possible; a time attack.
adj
noun
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
- An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
- A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
- A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
adj
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