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verb
noun
- A catcher; the position of catcher.
- The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
- Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
- A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
- A wall or fence behind home plate.
- A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
noun
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- two items of the same kind
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
verb
verb
- To support.
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
postp
verb
- To support.
- To secure or bind with ropes.
- To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
- To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
- To tie up a bird before cooking it.
noun
- The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
- A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
- A triangular bracket.
- Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
verb
prep
- Supporting, in favour of.
- Due or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- Used in various more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Intended to cure, remove or counteract; in order to cure, remove or counteract.
- So (that), in order to
- On behalf of.
- Used to introduce a subject within a to-infinitive clause.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- Because of.
- Over (a period of time).
- To be, or as being.
- Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In honor of; after.
- Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- Despite, in spite of.
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
particle
conj
verb
- To strengthen.
- To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
- To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
- To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- To unpalatalize or velarize.
- To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
adj
verb
- bolster or strengthen
- make by combining materials and parts
- form or accumulate steadily
- build or establish something abstract
- improve the cleansing action of
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- give form to, according to a plan
- be engaged in building
- found or ground
- develop and grow
noun
verb
- To support or encourage.
- To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
- To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
- To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.
- To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
verb
- To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To turn up or dig with the snout.
- Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To root out; to abolish.
noun
- The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- A sexual partner.
- The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- A zero (of an equation).
- The primary source; origin.
- The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- A penis, especially the base of a penis.
verb
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
noun
- A prop; a support.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
adv
verb
verb
verb
- To sustain; to provide support for.
- To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
noun
- A structure that provides support for some other material.
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
verb
- To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.
- To cause to speed up.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
noun
- A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- The biceps.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- Violent blasts of wind.
- An expert.
- Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
- A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
- A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- An electron gun.
verb
- To become stronger.
- To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
- To freshen up.
- To update.
- To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
- To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
- to give birth to a calf.
- To renew.
adv
adj
- Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
- Rested; not tired or fatigued.
- Without salt; not saline.
- In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
- Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
- Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
- Newly produced or obtained; recent.
- Disobedient or rude, as of a child.
- Youthful; florid.
- Still green and not dried.
- Good, fashionable.
- Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
noun
verb
- To become stronger.
- To top up (a drink).
- To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).
- To touch up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.
- To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
- To make cool.
- To be refreshed.
- To touch up the paint on (something).
- To become not salty, to lose its salinity.
- To become cool.
- To refresh; to revive; to renew.
- To make green (vegetation that has become dry).
- To top up (primer) in a firearm.
- To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
- To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
- To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
verb
- To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
- To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
noun
- Help; assistance; succor, relief.
- An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
- A helper; an assistant.
- An exchequer loan.
- Something which helps; a material source of help.
- A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
- The rider's use of hands, legs, voice, etc. to control the horse.
noun
- A strong supporter of a cause, or perhaps the strongest and most visible supporter of said cause.
- An aircraft carrier serving as a flagship
- A transportation company, such as a shipping or airline company, that is registered in a given state
- A person carrying a standard or flag, usually at sporting events and parades, previously on the battlefield.
- A national airline (typically having the flag, or other national insignia, on the tail)
verb
- To cheer for or support a team.
- To house military personnel; to quarter.
- To live in barracks.
- To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
noun
- A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
- Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
- A police station.
- A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
- A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
adj
noun
adj
- favoring or promoting progress
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
adj
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- gradually advancing in extent
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- advancing in severity
noun
prep
- In support of.
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in time.
- In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- After in physical progress or distance.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
noun
- In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
- The rear, back-end.
- The buttocks, bottom, butt.
- A one-point score.
- The catcher.
adj
adv
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- In a rearward direction.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
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