turn up
belay
clove hitch
rolling hitch
cleat
clamp
seize
picot
pin
bight
pipe vise
crossclamp
gunline
pipe clamp
lasher
clampy
makefast
fastened
tied
coque
stopper
buckle
compound bow
klimp
hasp
chain
bowlike
longe
bend
hank
Nicholl–Lee–Nicholl algorithm
preen
kevel
quicksilverish
quicksilvery
viol
lashing
spline
treenail
bestreak
strap up
clevis pin
strap
threader
banking pin
chock
bodkin
lirate
hook
C clef
knappable
strike
bender
frog
reticulation
becket
fishbolt
rack
tie
clip
shoot
belace
peg down
bind
peg
sheepshank
diagonal
sternfast
straight pin
shifter
bar
bias
hurdlemaker
span
butterfly clip
fromward
declamp
kisser
ropy
arrow bag
stretch
ribbon
line
klipbok
cord
rouleau
ribbonlike
axle hitch
grapplehook
ribbony
shortbow
clampy
fastened
tied
bowlike
quicksilverish
quicksilvery
lirate
knappable
ropy
ribbonlike
ribbony
clove hitch
rolling hitch
picot
pipe vise
gunline
pipe clamp
lasher
makefast
coque
stopper
compound bow
klimp
hasp
longe
Nicholl–Lee–Nicholl algorithm
kevel
viol
lashing
treenail
clevis pin
threader
banking pin
bodkin
C clef
bender
frog
reticulation
becket
fishbolt
rack
hank
strap
sheepshank
diagonal
sternfast
straight pin
shifter
bar
bias
hurdlemaker
span
butterfly clip
fromward
kisser
arrow bag
line
klipbok
rouleau
axle hitch
grapplehook
shortbow
turn up
belay
cleat
clamp
seize
pin
bight
crossclamp
buckle
chain
bend
hank
preen
spline
bestreak
strap up
strap
chock
hook
strike
tie
clip
shoot
belace
peg down
bind
peg
declamp
stretch
ribbon
cord
verb
- To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
- To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
- To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
- To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
verb
noun
- A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
- A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
- An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.
- A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
- A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
verb
- To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
- To hold or grip tightly.
- To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
- To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
noun
- An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
- A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
- A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
- A pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet.
- A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
- A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
verb
- To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- To have a seizure.
- To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
verb
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone).
noun
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
noun
- A short rope for making something fast.
- Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- A bung or cork.
- In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- Goalkeeper.
- A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
verb
verb
- To fasten using a buckle.
- To buckle down; to apply oneself.
- To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
- To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
- To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
- To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
- To unite in marriage.
noun
- A contorted expression, as of the face.
- A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
- A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
- An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
- The brisure of an eighth daughter.
- A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
- A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
verb
- To fasten something with a chain.
- To link multiple items together.
- To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- To obligate.
- To secure someone with fetters.
- To load and automatically run (a program).
- To be chained to another data item.
noun
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A long measuring tape.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- The warp threads of a web.
- A series of interconnected things.
verb
- To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- To stoop.
- To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- To cause to change direction.
- To change direction.
- To force to submit.
- To submit.
- To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- To apply to a task or purpose.
- To become curved.
- To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- To be inclined; to direct itself.
- To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- A curve.
- The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
verb
noun
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- Doubt, difficulty.
- Mess, tangle.
- A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
verb
- To pin; fasten.
- To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- To trim up, as trees.
- To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- To flatter.
- To comb; to make orderly.
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
- To show off, posture, or smarm.
noun
verb
- To fasten to or together with a spline.
- To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.
- To fit with a spline.
noun
- Ridges or teeth on a drive shaft that mesh with grooves in a mating piece and transfer torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between them.
- A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.
- A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.
- Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.
- Long thin piece of metal or wood.
- A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.
verb
- To fasten or bind with a strap.
- To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
noun
- A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Synonym of strapline
- A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
verb
- To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
- To make a dull sound.
- To insert a line in a chock.
noun
- Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
- Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
adv
verb
- fasten with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- take by theft
- make off with belongings of others
- hit with a hook
- catch with a hook
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
noun
- a catch for locking a door
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
verb
- hook by a pull on the line
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- stop work in order to press demands
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- attain
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- find unexpectedly
- produce by ignition or a blow
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cause to experience suddenly
- drive something violently into a location
- occupy or take on
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- smooth with a strickle
- pierce with force
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
noun
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- a gentle blow
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a conspicuous success
noun
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button (covered with netted thread), toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
- A French person.
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- defector: a politician who simply switches between different political parties.
- The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
verb
noun
- The clevis of a pulley block.
- A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
- A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
- A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
- A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
- An eye in the end of a rope.
- A pocket in clothing.
- A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
noun
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
verb
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
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
noun
- 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
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (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
- To fasten with a clip.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- To grip tightly.
- To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To strike with the hand.
- to grab or take stealthily
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
noun
- A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- A newspaper clipping.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- The condition of something, its state.
- A removable magazine of a firearm.
- A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
verb
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To grow; to advance.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
intj
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
verb
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
- stick to firmly
- create social or emotional ties
- wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
- secure with or as if with ropes
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- provide with a binding
- form a chemical bond with
- cause to be constipated
noun
verb
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- succeed in obtaining a position
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
noun
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
noun
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
- a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
adj
noun
- A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
- A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
- A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
- A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
noun
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- One of those musical sections.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
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- Except, other than, besides.
- Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
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- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- The space of all linear combinations of something.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
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- To lengthen when pulled.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- 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.
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- 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.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- 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.
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- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- A narrow strip or shred.
- In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A bandsaw.
- A watchspring.
- A sliver.
- A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- An awareness ribbon.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
noun
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a telephone connection
- acting in conformity
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a short personal letter
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
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- To tie or fasten with cords
- To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
- To furnish with cords
- To flatten a book during binding
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- Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
- A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
- A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
- Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
- A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
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- A decorative technique that involves creating patterns with piping, cording or bias tape. A rouleau loop uses the same cord or piping as a way of fastening buttons, most notably down the back of bridal gowns.
- A stack of aggregated red blood cells, as seen in certain haematological and other diseases.
- A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.
- One of a bundle of fascines to cover besiegers.
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