enfetter
strapple
fix
affix
fetter
intricate
trammel
entotic
vaginate
intertangle
girding
guard
inbind
shrined
immesh
girth
ensnare
grout
snarl
pen up
connect
fret
entoil
umcast
pitfalling
cumberment
inlock
sublime
clinch
forel
retiary
trapan
illaqueate
fasciate
casing
astrictive
puzzle
warple
ravel
cleftgraft
entrammel
interfaceable
pin down
embound
grapple
engraftable
enshell
noose
inshell
vinculate
ravelment
faggot
catch
fagot
faggot up
attach
betrap
code
show
disengage
snarl up
bond
enmeshment
encapsulatable
web
encase
inknot
adjunct
equientangled
encapsulable
hitch
involve
tag
foeship
umbecast
intertangled
encystation
annex
enolized
fasten
enlace
interentangle
encasement
bind
keybind
latch on
pen
catch up
enucleative
nest
hook
foul
entrain
ingratiatory
barnacle
wind
entotic
shrined
pitfalling
retiary
astrictive
interfaceable
engraftable
encapsulatable
equientangled
encapsulable
intertangled
enolized
enucleative
ingratiatory
girding
cumberment
casing
ravelment
enmeshment
adjunct
foeship
encystation
encasement
keybind
enfetter
strapple
fix
affix
fetter
intricate
trammel
vaginate
intertangle
guard
inbind
immesh
girth
ensnare
grout
snarl
pen up
connect
fret
entoil
umcast
inlock
sublime
clinch
forel
trapan
illaqueate
fasciate
puzzle
warple
ravel
cleftgraft
entrammel
pin down
embound
grapple
enshell
noose
inshell
vinculate
faggot
catch
fagot
faggot up
attach
betrap
code
show
disengage
snarl up
bond
web
encase
inknot
hitch
involve
tag
umbecast
annex
fasten
enlace
interentangle
bind
latch on
pen
catch up
nest
hook
foul
entrain
barnacle
wind
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.
verb
- To attach.
- To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
- To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.
noun
- Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
- A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.
- A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix, etc.
- The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b).
- That which is affixed; an appendage.
verb
noun
- A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- A net for confining a woman's hair.
- A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
- A beam compass.
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.
adj
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 entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- To become entangled.
- To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
- To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
noun
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- A squabble.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
verb
- To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
- To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
- To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
- To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
- To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
- To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
- To arrive at an intended target; to land.
- To associate; to establish a relation between.
noun
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 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 entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- To become entangled or snarled.
- Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
noun
verb
verb
- To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
- To hook and raise with a grapple.
- To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
- To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
- To wrestle or tussle.
- To seize something and hold it firmly.
- To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
noun
verb
- To grip or entangle.
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
- To adhere; to be attached.
- To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
- To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
verb
- To encode.
- To call a hospital emergency code.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- To go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life.
- To encode a protein.
- To add codes to a dataset.
- Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- To write software programs.
noun
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- A program.
- A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- A particular lect or language variety.
- A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
- Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
verb
- To bestow; to confer.
- To guide or escort.
- To put in an appearance; show up.
- To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- To reveal one's hand of cards.
- To display, to have somebody see (something).
- To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
noun
- An exhibition of items.
- A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- A project or presentation.
- Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- A battle; local conflict.
- The major leagues.
- A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- A demonstration.
- An agricultural show.
- A movie.
verb
- To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- To form a chemical compound with.
noun
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A peasant; churl.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- A bail bond.
- A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- A mortgage.
adj
verb
- To ensnare or entangle.
- To construct or form a web.
- To cover with a web or network.
- To provide with a web.
noun
- A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- The blade of a saw.
- The blade of a sword.
- The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
- The bit of a key.
- A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
- Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
- A latticed or woven structure.
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- A plot or scheme.
noun
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
- A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- Symploce.
- One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
adj
verb
- To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- To attach, tie or fasten.
- To pull with a jerk.
- To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
noun
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- A sudden pull.
- A period of time spent in the military.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
verb
- To fasten; to attach.
- To mark (something) with one’s tag.
- To label (something).
- To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- To hit the ball hard.
noun
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
- A sheep in its first year.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it".
- An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- A person's name.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- A type of cardboard.
- A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- A small label.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
noun
verb
- To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- 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 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.
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
noun
- Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A female swan.
- Penalty.
- A writer, or their style.
- The bullpen.
- Marks of ink left by a pen.
- A light pen.
- A wing.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
verb
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- To build or settle into a nest.
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- To settle into a home.
noun
- An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A fortified position for a weapon.
verb
- 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 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 entangle.
- To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- To become clogged.
- To become entangled.
- To come into contact or collide with.
- To make dirty.
- To besmirch.
- To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- To hit outside of the baselines.
- To clog or obstruct.
- To commit a foul.
adj
- Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
noun
- A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
- A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
verb
- To encarriage, to conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
- To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid.
- To get into or board a railway train.
- To put aboard a railway train.
- To become trained or conditioned in a pattern of brain behavior.
- To draw along as a current does.
- To set up or propagate a signal, such as an oscillation.
adj
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.
verb
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
noun
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
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