scratch
invitational
sports meeting
meet
intraconference
callout
counter-meet
standing
league
club
conference
octathlon
stayaway
nonconference
lookers-on see most of the game
plenary session
shirts and skins
send one's apologies
unvitation
triathlon
challenge
makeup
motorkhana
interconference
plenary talk
make-up
quadruple-header
off-season
preregistered
volkssport
ex parte
stadium
press box
kiddie table
blind spot
elimination
crasher
pregame
exit interview
first-string
double-header
nonmeeting
no-cut
Chatham House Rule
round table
sports
time trial
Universiade
blank
athletics
bosberaad
postregistered
taxi squad
tie
cede the field
sportsfest
billet
in attendance
single-elimination tournament
field
midmajor
basketball clinic
pentadecathlon
on the road
dial in
powwow
programme
wild card
program
chair plug
seeding
grandstand play
stand up
hot stove league
empty chair
sit out
uninvited
attendant
bystander
Europe
overbook
one-on-one
symposium
redshirt
Eastwood
skip
party
hand-for-hand
matchweek
amphitheatre
all-ticket
lammer
alickadoo
amphitheater
pseudosport
coliseum
Eddie the Eagle rule
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preregistered
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first-string
no-cut
postregistered
uninvited
attendant
invitational
ex parte
all-ticket
ex parte
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sports meeting
meet
callout
counter-meet
standing
league
club
conference
octathlon
stayaway
plenary session
shirts and skins
unvitation
triathlon
makeup
motorkhana
plenary talk
make-up
quadruple-header
off-season
volkssport
stadium
press box
kiddie table
blind spot
elimination
crasher
exit interview
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nonmeeting
round table
time trial
Universiade
athletics
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tie
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single-elimination tournament
midmajor
basketball clinic
pentadecathlon
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program
chair plug
seeding
grandstand play
hot stove league
bystander
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symposium
party
hand-for-hand
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lammer
alickadoo
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pseudosport
coliseum
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challenge
sports
blank
cede the field
field
dial in
powwow
stand up
empty chair
sit out
overbook
redshirt
Eastwood
skip
verb
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
verb
- come together
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- be adjacent or come together
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- collect in one place
- get to know; get acquainted with
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- experience as a reaction
- undergo or suffer
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
adj
noun
- A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
- An outgoing telephone call.
- A request for people to join or take part.
- An invitation to fight.
- A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
- An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
- An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
- A form of verbal abuse with the intention to make the victim feel guilty.
- The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
noun
- An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
- A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- A club sandwich.
- An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
verb
- To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
- To hit with a club.
- To join together to form a group.
- To go to nightclubs.
- To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- To drift in a current with an anchor out.
noun
- A method of indicating team membership, typically when played by boys or men in informal sporting contests, in which the members of one team (the "skins") remove their shirts and play shirtless, while the others (the "shirts") leave their shirts on.
- Any game (especially basketball) played using the above method.
verb
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To dispute (something).
noun
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
noun
- A venue where sporting events are held.
- a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
- Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
- A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
- A life stage of an organism.
- An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
noun
- In a stadium or auditorium, any location affording those seated or standing there only an obstructed visual or auditory experience.
- A location where radio reception and/or transmission is significantly poorer than in surrounding locations.
- A location around an earthquake epicentre that is prone to earthquake.
- An inability to recognize a fact or think clearly about a certain topic, especially because of a prejudice.
- The place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina, and so where the retina cannot detect light.
- The part of the railway/tramway track that cannot be seen in the side mirror or the side window.
- In driving, the part of the road that cannot be seen in the rear-view mirror.
- A subject or area about which one is uninformed or misinformed, often because of a prejudice or lack of appreciation.
noun
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
- The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- 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.
- The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A similar meeting held when an individual leaves some other type of organization, such as an educational institution or voluntary association.
- A final meeting between an individual who is leaving his or her employment and a representative of the employing organization, in order to gather information about employment conditions and to ensure a fair, informed, orderly departure.
noun
- A pair of sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
- A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.
- A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
- The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.
- A double-headed coin.
- A train pulled by two locomotives.
adj
- Of a sporting activity (in a school, etc.): allowing an unlimited number of participants, rather than members of a fixed-size team who must "make the cut".
- Of a sportsman's clause or contract: guaranteeing that they will not be taken off the team during a designated period.
- Of any clause or contract: remaining in force until it expires, without the possibility of earlier cancellation.
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.
verb
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- To make void; to erase.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- To become blank.
- To be temporarily unable to remember.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
adj
- Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
noun
- Infertile semen.
- A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
- Blank verse .
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
- A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
noun
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A tiewig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A lace-up shoe.
- A connection between two vertices.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
noun
- Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
- An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
- Berth; position.
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- A strap that enters a buckle.
- A short informal letter.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
- A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- A semi-finished length of metal.
verb
verb
- To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- To answer; to address.
- To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- To execute research (in the field).
- To deploy in the field.
- The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- To defeat.
- To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
noun
- The background of the shield.
- An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
- The extent of a given perception.
- A region containing a particular mineral.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- The background of the flag.
- The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- The outfield.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
noun
- an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event
- an integrated course of academic studies
- a radio or television show
- (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
- a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
- a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
- a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
verb
noun
- an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event
- a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
- a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
- a radio or television show
- a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
- an integrated course of academic studies
- (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
- a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
verb
noun
- A successful play or other manoeuvre during a sporting competition in which one or more players shows off unnecessarily in order to entertain or impress the spectators.
- An action or stratagem that is excessively dramatic or sensational and that is intended to appeal to members of the public or to a particular audience.
verb
- (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- To bring something up and set it into a standing position.
- To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- To launch, propel upwards
- To last or endure over a period of time.
- To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- to make one's voice heard, to speak up
- To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
verb
noun
adj
noun
name
- International club competitions operated by UEFA, the sport's governing body for Europe.
- The portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean.
- A political entity; the European Union.
- Mainland Europe (continental Europe), especially the western portion, thus excluding the island nations or the larger Mediterranean islands.
noun
verb
- To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
- To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
- To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.
- The university decided to redshirt the freshman linebacker to give him an extra year to build up his bulk.
noun
- An athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
- A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
- An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
verb
name
- A neighbourhood of Syracuse, New York.
- A town in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4646).
- A residential area in southwestern Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5560).
- A community in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.
- A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- An unincorporated community in Carter County, Missouri.
- A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
- A neighbourhood of Dallas, Texas.
- A small hamlet near Todmorden, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9625).
- An unincorporated community in Brown County, Ohio.
- A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- A suburb of Pretoria, South Africa.
- A census-designated place in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
- A neighbourhood of Houston, Texas.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
- A suburban area of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8389).
- A surname.
- A ghost town in San Diego County, California.
noun
verb
- Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
- To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To leap about lightly.
- To jump rope.
- To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- To leap lightly over.
noun
- A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
- A college servant.
- A skip car.
- The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
- A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- A charge of syrup in the pans.
- A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- skywave propagation
- The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
- The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- A beehive.
- A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
noun
- A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
- A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
- A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
- With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
- A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
- A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
- A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
- A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
- A small group of birds or mammals.
adj
- Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them.
- Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
verb
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