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noun
- The semifinal round, or an appearance in it generally.
- The final round of the continent-wide Euroleague club basketball competition, featuring four teams with one becoming champion.
- 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.
- An appearance in the Final Four.
noun
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.
adj
- Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%).
- Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
- Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
verb
noun
- A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
noun
- A special swimming race in which the winner gets to compete in the next level of trials (typically the finals), where the competitors have not qualified for the next level by the usual elimination races.
- The start of a period, in which the two teams try to reach the ball placed in the centre of the pool.
verb
- To end (a round) by having passes as the first four bids.
- To distribute, to hand out.
- To graduate, usually marked by a ceremony at the end of training.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, out.
- To graduate from university.
- To faint; to become unconscious.
- To become proficient in a particular job or task.
noun
- A tournament in which players are gradually eliminated and the last remaining player wins everything gambled.
- Any situation in which the motion of a system of particles ceases.
- A kind of merger by which one or more shareholders who collectively hold a majority of shares in a corporation gain ownership of remaining shares in that corporation.
noun
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- (military) a written leave of absence
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a difficult juncture
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- a complimentary ticket
- a usually brief attempt
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
adj
verb
- go across or through
- move past
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- for time to move forward
- place into the hands or custody of
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- travel past
- come to pass
- go unchallenged; be approved
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- pass over, across, or through
- transmit information
- disappear gradually
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- be superior or better than some standard
- accept or judge as acceptable
- allow to go without comment or censure
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- throw (a ball) to another player
- be inherited by
- cause to pass
- grant authorization or clearance for
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
name
- The round of the NCAA Division I basketball tournament where all but 8 teams have been eliminated.
- The eight teams that advance to the site of the final rounds of the NCAA Division II tournament, one of whom will become the national champion.
- The eight teams participating in the regional finals of the NCAA Division I tournament, one of whom will become the national champion.
- An appearance in the Elite Eight, whether in Division I or II.
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
noun
- a contest consisting of a series of successive matches between the same sides
- an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
- any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber
- an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
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verb
noun
- A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- A long-haired breed of gundog.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- A typesetter.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
verb
noun
- A replayed match, often after the first game or match ended in a draw; a rematch.
- A repetition of another event, scene, or occurrence; a recurrence or reenactment.
- A repeat or subsequent playing of some or all of something which was previously broadcast or performed, or a playing of something which was recorded, such as a live event or a television broadcast, the gameplay of a computer game, etc.
- A (video or audio) recording of an action or event that is or can be replayed after being recorded; saved video footage (which is, or can be, replayed) of the gameplay of a computer game, a (portion of a) televised sports match, etc.
- An act or instance of replaying (of playing something, such as a game, again); a replaying of (something).
verb
noun
- A set of competitions which make up a championship.
- A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
- A tour of duty.
- A circuit of snooker tournaments
- 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
- A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”)
- One who or that which kills.
- A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- A club used for killing fish.
adj
noun
- Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
- A crown imperial.
- A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
- An outside seat on a diligence or carriage.
- A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
- A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
- A variety of green tea.
- A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
- A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).
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
verb
- To defeat a team twice in the finals.
- To enroll in a single class which will fulfill two different requirements of a course of study.
- To dip a piece of food (e.g. a chip) into a communal sauce container after already having taken a bite of the food.
- To use a single debt instrument to obtain interest tax expense (and therefore a lower tax base) in two or more tax jurisdictions.
- To be illegitimately compensated a second time for the same activity.
- To re-release a movie or TV series, sometimes as a compilation or with additional features.
- To buy the same game twice, especially on different platforms.
- To draw a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or to draw two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.
noun
- The drawing of a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or of two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.
- An ice cream cone with two scoops of ice cream.
- A hill that levels off for a while about halfway down.
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.
verb
- To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
- To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
- To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
- to ride a quad bike
adj
noun
- One set of competitors in a game.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- A sports team.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- Sidespin; english
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
adv
verb
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
adj
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.
noun
- A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
- A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
- The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
- The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
- An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
- Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
- A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
- Nightfall.
verb
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.
noun
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- a gully that is shallower than a ravine
- an entertainer who attracts large audiences
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage
- poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer
- the act of drawing or hauling something
verb
- cause to move by pulling
- get or derive
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
- take liquid out of a container or well
- give a description of
- select or take in from a given group or region
- elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- suck in or take (air)
- move or go steadily or gradually
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- choose at random
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- to obtain a liquid from somewhere
- write a legal document or paper
- engage in drawing
- move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
- allow a draft
- require a specified depth for floating
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take in, also metaphorically
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- thread on or as if on a string
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pass over, across, or through
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- shrink
- reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- steep; pass through a strainer
- remove the entrails of
- flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- cause to localize at one point
noun
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a social or business relationship
- equality of score in a contest
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
verb
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- form a knot or bow in
- create social or emotional ties
- perform a marriage ceremony
- make by tying pieces together
- unite musical notes by a tie
suffix
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.
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