batten down
hatch
hatchwork
clamshell
filler cap
scuttle
pumpout
bottle cap
tom
cargo hatch
head up
settler
strip
Triger process
dow
impound
embay
closure
weigh down
seacock
liner lock
worm
lock-weir
rummage
tagline
tye
klimp
lock
stopper
graving
dog
death kit
stop
waterfast
ballast
door pump
seal
wedge up
tank
stevedore
basket
mill
knock down
suicide bag
inwall
tank up
suicide kit
hem
silt
strake
encloister
crib
sport
well
petrol cap
reem
semicircular canal
troughwise
compartmentful
gate
submerge
goosh
hydraulic belt
trunk
dockage
waterchamber
leak
fallway
dock
spout
station
breakwater
underfurrow
dry sump
careen
docking facility
clinched
clenched
hatchway
discharge pipe
skeet
dunk tank
draughtproof
barrelled
dip-coat
swim
close in
barreled
crown
spring
drown
barring
bream
tuberiferous
steam jacket
bucketmaking
hutch
immure
waterfast
clinched
clenched
barrelled
barreled
tuberiferous
troughwise
hatchwork
filler cap
scuttle
pumpout
bottle cap
cargo hatch
settler
strip
closure
seacock
liner lock
lock-weir
rummage
tagline
tye
klimp
graving
death kit
door pump
basket
suicide bag
suicide kit
strake
well
petrol cap
semicircular canal
compartmentful
hydraulic belt
trunk
dockage
waterchamber
fallway
dock
station
breakwater
dry sump
docking facility
hatchway
discharge pipe
skeet
dunk tank
crown
barring
steam jacket
bucketmaking
hutch
batten down
hatch
clamshell
tom
head up
dow
impound
embay
weigh down
worm
lock
stopper
dog
stop
ballast
seal
wedge up
tank
stevedore
mill
knock down
inwall
tank up
hem
silt
encloister
crib
sport
reem
gate
submerge
goosh
leak
spout
underfurrow
careen
draughtproof
dip-coat
swim
close in
spring
drown
bream
immure
verb
- To close with a hatch or hatches.
- To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
- To devise.
- To emerge from an egg.
- To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
noun
- A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A trapdoor.
- An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- The act of hatching.
- A gullet.
- A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- Development; disclosure; discovery.
- A bedstead.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
verb
- To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with take-out food.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
noun
- A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
- A broad, shallow basket.
- A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
- A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
- A quick pace; a short run.
verb
- To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
- To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
- To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
- To move hastily, to scurry.
noun
- A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
- The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
- Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.
- Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
- A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
- That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
noun
- A trough for washing ore.
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- A strip steak.
- The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A landing strip.
- A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- A comic strip.
- A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
verb
- To perform a striptease.
- To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- To take off clothing.
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
noun
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
- The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
- A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
- The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
- The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
- The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
- The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
verb
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
noun
- The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
- A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
- A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
- A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
verb
- To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
- To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
noun
- A line attached to a draft of cargo or a container to provide control and minimize pendulation of cargo during lifting operations.
- The punch line of a joke.
- A light rope attached to an object being hoisted by a crane, used to guide it while lifting or lowering.
- A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.
- An advertising slogan.
verb
verb
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- To fasten with a lock.
- To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- To play in the position of lock.
- To become fastened in place.
- To intertwine or dovetail.
- To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
noun
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- Complete control over a situation.
- The firing mechanism.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
verb
noun
- Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- A bung or cork.
- In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- A short rope for making something fast.
- Goalkeeper.
- A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
verb
- To fasten a hatch securely.
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- To criticize.
- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
adj
noun
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- The meat of this animal, eaten as food
- A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- A man, guy, chap.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- Something that performs poorly.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- A sexually aggressive man.
- Underdog.
- Foot.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
verb
- To close or block an opening.
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- Not to continue.
punct
noun
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
adj
verb
- To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
- To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
- To weigh down with a ballast.
noun
- Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
- Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
- A material, such as aggregate or precast concrete pavers, which employs its mass and the force of gravity to hold single-ply roof membranes in place.
- That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
- device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
- Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
verb
- To place in a sealed container.
- To place a seal on (a document).
- To confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
- To guarantee.
- To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
- To close securely to prevent leakage.
- To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
- To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
- To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.
- To form a sacred commitment.
- To hunt seals.
- To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.
- To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.
- To close by means of a seal.
- To fry (meat) at a high temperature to retain the juices.
noun
- An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
- A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.
- Anything that secures or authenticates.
- A tight closure, secure against leakage.
- Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.
- A chakra.
- A design or insignia usually associated with an organization or an official role.
- Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.
- A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
- Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.
- A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
noun
- A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- The game of basketball.
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- The male genitalia and region surrounding it.
- A set or collection of intangible things.
- The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- Bastard.
verb
verb
- To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- To move about in an aimless fashion.
- To beat; to pound.
- To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To swim underwater.
- To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- To undergo hulling.
- To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- To cause to mill, or circle around.
noun
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- An engine.
- An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
- A prison treadmill.
- A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
- An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- A milling cutter.
- A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- Discarding a card from one's deck.
- A boxing match, fistfight.
- An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
- A building housing such a plant.
- A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
verb
- To disassemble for shipment.
- To drink fast.
- To reduce the price of.
- To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
- To demolish.
- To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.
- At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
noun
verb
- To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
- To make a hem.
- To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
intj
noun
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- A rim or margin of something.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
verb
noun
noun
- A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
- A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
- A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
- A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
verb
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- To complain, to grumble
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- A bed for a child older than a baby.
- One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A wicker basket.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- The card game cribbage.
- A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- A small raft made of timber.
- A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
verb
- To close (a door).
- To display; to have as a notable feature.
- To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- To amuse oneself, to play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- To represent by any kind of play.
noun
- Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- A sportsman; a gambler.
- One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
intj
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
adj
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- To open a closed ion channel.
- To furnish with a gate.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
noun
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- Movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A way, path.
noun
- A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
- The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
- The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
- The main line or body of anything.
- A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
- A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
- A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
- A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
- In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
- A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
- A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
- The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
- A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
- The torso.
- A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
- The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
verb
verb
- To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
- To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
- To urinate.
- To bleed.
- To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
noun
- A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
- The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
- The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
- A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
- An act of urination.
noun
- landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
verb
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noun
- An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- Standing; rank; position.
- A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
- Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- A gas station, service station.
- The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- A place where some object is provided.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- A military base.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A ground transportation depot.
- A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- A broadcasting entity.
- Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
verb
noun
- A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
- A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
- A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
verb
- To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
- To tilt on one side.
- To tilt or lean while in motion.
- To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
- To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
- To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
noun
noun
- A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
- A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
- The ejaculation of semen.
- A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
- A young working-class person who's occasionally loud, disruptive and poorly educated person.
- news or gossip
verb
noun
- A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
- A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
- A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
- The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- The highest part of a hill.
- Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- The highest part of an arch.
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- The top of a tree.
- The part of a tooth above the gums.
- A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The topmost part of the head.
- The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
- A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
- A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
verb
- In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To hit on the head.
- To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
- To declare (someone) a winner.
adj
verb
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
adj
noun
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
verb
noun
- A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
- A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
- A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
- An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
noun
- A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- The case of a flour bolt.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
verb
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