girth
girt
fret
pin down
pin up
swathe
begirdle
girdle
bracer
band
clamp
pile
knottable
enfetter
gird
engirdle
glue
paste
ring
beknit
grout
colligate
faggot
cement
fagot
fix
faggot up
girdering
umcast
girderage
thimble
clinch
hook
knotted
piggyback
girthsome
bind
gibbet
junction
catch
enlace
encloser
circuit
conjunction
set
inknot
hitch
fetter
hooky
fascia
bandelet
forel
encircle
flexiback
girdlelike
comboable
ligature
encincture
felter
vinculate
guard
interlockable
interknot
copropagating
tier
binder
environ
gimlet
lash
gizmotic
jitterbug
joint
tie
bracelet
stringer
underbrace
sinch
mated
barnacle
bound
intertangle
English knot
bowstring knot
tanglesome
belime
stiff
manharness knot
ungird
strap
harness loop
limetwig
manharness hitch
knottable
knotted
girthsome
hooky
flexiback
girdlelike
comboable
interlockable
copropagating
gizmotic
mated
bound
tanglesome
bracer
clamp
girdering
girderage
thimble
bind
junction
encloser
circuit
conjunction
fascia
bandelet
girdle
ligature
encincture
tier
binder
jitterbug
stringer
English knot
bowstring knot
stiff
manharness knot
harness loop
manharness hitch
girth
girt
fret
pin down
pin up
swathe
begirdle
girdle
band
pile
enfetter
gird
engirdle
glue
paste
ring
beknit
grout
colligate
faggot
cement
fagot
fix
faggot up
umcast
clinch
hook
piggyback
gibbet
catch
enlace
set
inknot
hitch
fetter
forel
encircle
felter
vinculate
guard
interknot
environ
gimlet
lash
joint
tie
bracelet
underbrace
sinch
barnacle
intertangle
encincture
belime
ungird
strap
limetwig
verb
noun
- One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
- A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
- The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
- The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
- A small horizontal brace or girder.
- The distance measured around an object.
verb
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- A channel or passage created by the sea.
- One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
verb
- To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
- To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
noun
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- The zodiac; also, the equator.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
noun
verb
noun
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- instrumentalists not including string players
- a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
- a range of frequencies between two limits
- a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a driving belt in machinery
- a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a restraint put around something to hold it together
noun
- A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
- 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.
verb
verb
- To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- To add something to a great number.
- (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
noun
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A list or league
- A mass formed in layers.
- A large amount of money.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A hemorrhoid.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
verb
noun
verb
- To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- To telephone (someone).
- To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- to resound, reverberate, echo.
- Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- To produce music with bells.
- To enclose or surround.
- To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- To rise in the air spirally.
noun
- A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A pleasant or correct sound.
- An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- A telephone call.
- A burner on a kitchen stove.
- An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
verb
noun
- concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
- a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
- something that hardens to act as adhesive material
- any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
- a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
verb
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
- To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- To mend, to repair.
- To prepare (food or drink).
- To map a (point or subset) to itself.
noun
- fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A repair or corrective action.
- A determination of location.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
noun
- A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.
- As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
- A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.
- A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.
- A thimble or similar object used in thimblerig (“a game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three thimbles or small cups a pea-sized object has been placed after the person operating the game rapidly rearranges them”).
- A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
verb
verb
- To clasp; to interlock.
- To embrace passionately.
- To make certain; to finalize.
- To hold firmly; to clench.
- To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
- To set closely together; to close tightly.
- To fasten securely or permanently.
noun
- Any of several fastenings.
- A passionate embrace.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
- The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
- A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
verb
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- 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 insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- 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 attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
- To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway waggon
- To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
- To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
- To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
- To enter a secured area at the same time along with someone having authorized access; to tailgate
adv
adj
- On somebody's back or shoulders.
- Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
- Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
noun
noun
- That which binds or ties.
- A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
- The indurated clay of coal mines.
- A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
- Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
- A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
verb
- To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
- To put together in a cover, as of books.
- To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
- To place under legal obligation to serve.
- To cover, as with a bandage.
- To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
- To make two or more elements stick together.
- To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
- To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- To couple.
- To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
- To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- To cohere or stick together in a mass.
- To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- To complain; to whine about something.
- To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
verb
noun
verb
- to hook or entangle
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
noun
- That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
- The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
- A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
- The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
- The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
- The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
- The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
- A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
- A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
- By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
- The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
- A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
- Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
- The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
noun
- something that joins or connects
- the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
- the state of being joined together
- an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
- the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
verb
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
verb
- to hook or entangle
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
noun
- a period of time spent in military service
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- an unforeseen obstacle
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
noun
- A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
- A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.
- A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.
- A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
- The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing muscles and organs; an aponeurosis.
- The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.
- A broad well-defined band of color.
- A dashboard.
- A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
noun
- something used to tie or bind
- (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
- thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
- the act of tying or binding things together
verb
- To fasten by binding; to gird.
- To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
noun
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- A state of caution; posture of defence.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- A player playing a position named guard.
- A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
- A squad responsible for protecting something.
- The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- A watchchain.
- The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
- A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- A garda; a police officer.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
- A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
- An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
verb
- To encircle or surround (someone or something).
- To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
- Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
- To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
- Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
- Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
noun
verb
- To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
noun
- A marijuana cigarette.
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
- Prison.
- The penis.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- A thing.
- A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
adj
verb
- form a knot or bow in
- 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
- 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
noun
- Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
- The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
- Someone who strings someone along.
- A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
- Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
- A hard-hit ball.
- A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
- A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
- A person who plays on a particular string.
- A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
- A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
- A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
verb
noun
- In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
- A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
- A worldly sailor.
- On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
- The barnacle goose.
- A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
adj
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
- confined by bonds
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
verb
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- a line determining the limits of an area
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- the greatest possible degree of something
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
noun
- Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- A customer who does not leave a tip.
- A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- A cadaver; a dead person.
- A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- A flop; a commercial failure.
- An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
verb
- To tip ungenerously.
- To kill.
- To cheat someone
- To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
adj
- Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- Dead, deceased.
- Erect.
- Inflexible; rigid.
- Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Harsh, severe.
- Potent.
- Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- Keeping upright.
adv
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
- 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.
- A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
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