crook
acrook
uncincate
flex
wingle
hooky
gimlet
curl
wave
volvulate
articulate
gnarl
invaginate
lap
intorsion
crankle
wamble
uncous
circumflect
tie
hook
intervolve
tirl
twistle
twine
warp
cock
wind up
convolution
upwreath
flange
double up
chinkle
accroach
twirl
kink
rotate
buck
dumple
swivel
circumgyrate
hield
hookedness
wrick
strut
ancistroid
inflexure
pleach
subaduncate
knurl
entwine
overbend
weave
hooklike
trundle
incurvate
crick
upbow
flake
skelp
entwist
bank
cant
multiarticulate
crimp
tip-up
circumvolute
end up
invert
bendable
bow
turn away
vex
fag out
circumrotatory
cyrto-
pretzel
wry
bender
extend
bowing
bend
introflexed
upbend
warping hook
curb
tip
lean
tilt
bat out
angle
deflex
slant
acrook
uncincate
hooky
uncous
ancistroid
subaduncate
hooklike
multiarticulate
tip-up
bendable
circumrotatory
wry
introflexed
intorsion
convolution
chinkle
hookedness
inflexure
pleach
wingle
crankle
flake
bender
bowing
warping hook
crook
flex
wingle
gimlet
curl
wave
volvulate
articulate
gnarl
invaginate
lap
crankle
wamble
circumflect
tie
hook
intervolve
tirl
twistle
twine
warp
cock
wind up
upwreath
flange
double up
accroach
twirl
kink
rotate
buck
dumple
swivel
circumgyrate
hield
wrick
strut
knurl
entwine
overbend
weave
trundle
incurvate
crick
upbow
skelp
entwist
bank
cant
crimp
circumvolute
end up
invert
bow
turn away
vex
fag out
pretzel
extend
bend
upbend
curb
tip
lean
tilt
bat out
angle
deflex
slant
verb
- To bend, or form into a hook.
- To become bent or hooked.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
adj
noun
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- A pothook.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
verb
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- signal with the hands or nod
- move or swing back and forth
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- set waves in
noun
- one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- something that rises rapidly
- the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
- a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
- an undulating curve
- a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
verb
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- To make clear or effective.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- to form a joint or connect by joints
- to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
adj
- Speaking in a clear and effective manner.
- Distinctly marked off.
- Clear; effective.
- Consisting of segments united by joints.
noun
verb
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- 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 insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- To weave together.
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
noun
verb
- To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- 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 deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- 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 turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- To erect; to turn up.
- To form into piles.
noun
- The penis.
- The circle at the end of the rink.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- Vulva, vagina.
- Shuttlecock.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A cock pigeon.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- A man; a fellow, especially as a term of address.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
intj
verb
- To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- To end up; to arrive or result.
- To upset; to anger or distress.
- To increase (in some aspect).
- To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- To excite.
- To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
noun
- A twist or fold.
- One 360° turn in a spring or similar helix.
- A mathematical operation on two functions that produces a third that expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other; the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reflected about the y-axis and shifted along the x-axis.
- The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
- Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
- The state or condition of being convoluted.
- A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.
verb
- To be bent into a flange.
- To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
- To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.
noun
- The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
- The vulva.
- The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
- An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
- The collective noun for a group of baboons.
- An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
verb
- To bend, bend over; to fold; to stoop.
- To employ double the usual resources for a particular purpose.
- To double one's amount of chips by winning an all-in pot.
- To have a secondary use.
- To double the quantity, amount or duration of something
- To get the second out in a double play, typically referring to getting an out by beating a runner back to a base (often by throwing) after a fly ball has been caught
verb
- To form a kink or twist.
- To be formed into a kink or twist.
- To laugh loudly.
- To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
noun
- A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
verb
- To spin, turn, or revolve.
- To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
- To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
- To spin, turn, or revolve something.
- To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
- To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
- To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
adj
verb
- To bend; buckle.
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
- To fuck.
- To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- To swell out.
- To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
- To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
noun
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A rand (currency unit).
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- Size.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- A euro.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
- One hundred.
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- The beech tree.
- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- One million dollars.
- The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
- Belly, breast, chest.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Money.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
verb
noun
- A piece, such as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
- A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun.
- Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will.
- The act of swivelling.
- A rotating of the hips.
- A small, usually ball- or barrel-shaped device used in angling to connect sections of fishing lines, consisting of two rings linked via a thrust bearing pivot joint.
verb
- To form into a bent or curved shape.
- To be formed into a bent or curved shape (around something).
- To make circuits (around an area or space).
- To move around something.
- To turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
- To cause to move around something; to cause to orbit.
- To cause to turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
verb
- To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.
- Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
- To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
- To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
- To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support.
noun
- A beam or rod providing support.
- An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.
- An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
- A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
adj
verb
- To move by turning and twisting.
- To unite by close connection or intermixture.
- To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
- To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
- To spin a cocoon or a web.
- To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
- To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
noun
verb
- To roll or revolve; to roll along.
- To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
- To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
- To move heavily (on wheels).
- To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
- To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
- To move, often heavily or clumsily.
noun
noun
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- 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 prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
verb
verb
- To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- To put into a bank.
- To arrange or order in a row.
- To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
noun
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- The ground at the top of a shaft.
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- Money; profit.
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- An incline, a hill.
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- A device used to store coins or currency.
- An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
verb
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To set (something) at an angle.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
noun
- An outer or external angle.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A corner (of a building).
- A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A parcel, a division.
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
adj
verb
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
noun
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
verb
- To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- To turn (the foot) inwards.
- To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To undergo inversion, as sugar.
noun
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
- A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- An invertebrate.
- An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
adj
verb
- To become bent or curved.
- To defer (to something).
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To make something bend or curve.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To debut.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
prefix
verb
- To straighten (a limb).
- To reenlist for a further period.
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- To increase in extent.
- To cause to increase in extent.
- To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
verb
- To bend or curve.
- To rein in.
- To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
- To crouch; to cringe.
- To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
- To check, restrain or control.
- To bring to a stop beside a curb.
noun
- Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
- A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
- A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
- A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
- A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
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