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verb
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
adv
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
adj
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
adj
adv
noun
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
verb
- To reject some act in a spiteful manner.
- To repay an act of kindness with disappointment or betrayal.
- To lord over someone by exerting dominance, following a successful confrontation; sometimes in a subtle or snide manner.
- To raise a past transgression in order to admonish someone.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, something, in, someone, face.
verb
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To make a reply or response to.
- To file a document in response to a complaint.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
noun
verb
- To contradict, to show (something) to be false.
- To fill with lies; to lie to.
- To show, evince or demonstrate (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
- To call a liar; to accuse of falsehood.
- To give a false representation of.
- To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
verb
noun
noun
- The act of contradicting.
- A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
- A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
verb
- To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To mark with an X.
- To score a try.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
prep
adj
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
noun
- A difficult situation that must be endured.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A hybrid of any kind.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- crossfire.
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
adj
- Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
- Dealing with absurdism.
noun
prep
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- In a contrary direction to.
- In competition with, versus.
- In front of; before (a background).
- Close to, alongside.
- In opposition to.
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- In exchange for.
- To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- As counterbalance to.
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- As a charge on.
verb
- To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- To move or be moved by this method.
- To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
noun
- The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
- The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
- The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
verb
- To object with in critical fashion; to express disapproval (with, against).
- Specifically, to lodge an official objection (especially by means of a remonstrance) with a monarch or other ruling body.
- To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
- To state or plead as an objection, formal protest, or expression of disapproval.
verb
- To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- To hit (another person).
- To lay out on a flake for drying.
- To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
noun
- A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- The meat of the gummy shark.
- Dogfish.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A paling; a hurdle.
- A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
adj
noun
- One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
- Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.
- A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
verb
- To act negligently or carelessly.
- To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
- To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
- To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- To give lesser weight or importance to.
- To throw heedlessly.
noun
adj
verb
- To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- To place out of line.
noun
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- A terrace on a hillside.
- The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- an outstanding characteristic
- a blemish made by dirt
- a small contrasting part of something
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a slight attack of illness
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
verb
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