bedeck
blazon
garnish
mense
array
ornamentation
garland
grace
laureate
dress
attire
flourish
gracesome
arraying
crown
spangle
gracen
gild
toothwork
ornamental
clad
trap
garniture
fancy
set
adorningly
cording
godroon
altarlike
apparel
dub
curl
decoratory
worshipful
decoration
decorativeness
festoon
decor
bienséance
armorial
decorational
carpellary
dizen
mush
deboss
adornment
ornament
deck
inlaid
begrace
bless
watering
deck out
decklike
library
worked
cross
ornamentalize
esthetical
furbelow
bannerlike
wreathe
sextry
become
jewelry
adorner
clothe
tricking
rosette
escroll
embellish
finery
beading
overdecorate
beadwork
diadem
sign
stucco
adorn
ornateness
figurative
gem
legend
embellishment
begem
revere
valanced
escutcheon pin
bestream
ornamentational
wreathage
mantle
ornamentalism
graven
laureate
gracesome
ornamental
clad
fancy
altarlike
decoratory
worshipful
armorial
decorational
carpellary
inlaid
decklike
worked
esthetical
figurative
valanced
ornamentational
graven
adorningly
bannerlike
ornamentation
arraying
toothwork
garniture
flourish
cording
decoration
decorativeness
decor
bienséance
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watering
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sextry
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rosette
escroll
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beadwork
ornateness
legend
embellishment
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wreathage
mantle
ornamentalism
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array
garland
grace
dress
attire
flourish
crown
spangle
gracen
gild
trap
set
godroon
apparel
dub
curl
festoon
dizen
mush
deboss
deck
begrace
bless
deck out
ornamentalize
furbelow
wreathe
become
jewelry
clothe
embellish
overdecorate
diadem
sign
stucco
adorn
gem
begem
revere
bestream
verb
- To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
- To ornament with something placed around it.
- To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
- To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
noun
- Cash.
- A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
- Something added for embellishment.
- Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
- A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- Pewter vessels in general.
- Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
verb
- To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
- To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
- To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
noun
- A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
- A militia.
- An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
- Clothing and ornamentation.
- A microarray.
- A group of hedgehogs.
- A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
- Common name for matrix.
- Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
- A large collection.
- Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
verb
noun
- The top; the thing most prized.
- An accolade or mark of honour.
- A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
- A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
- A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
- A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
- The crown of a monarch.
verb
- To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
- To supply with heavenly grace.
- To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
- To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
noun
- A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
- An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
- Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.
- In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
- A grace note.
- Charming, pleasing qualities.
- Elegant movement; balance or poise.
- An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.
verb
- To adorn or ornament (something).
- To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
- To prepare (food) for cooking or eating, especially by seasoning it; specifically, to add a dressing or sauce (to food, especially a salad).
- To attire oneself for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
- To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.
- To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
- To prepare, treat, or curry (animal hide or leather).
- To prepare the surface of (a material, usually lumber or stone).
- Of a sportsperson: to put on the uniform and have the equipment needed to play a sport.
- To prepare (an artificial fly) to be attached to a fish hook.
- Of a thing: to attain a certain condition after undergoing some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use.
- To arrange a display of goods in, or to decorate (a shop or shop window).
- To arrange or style (someone's hair).
- To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.
- To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
- To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
- To remove chaff or impurities from (flour, grain, etc.) by bolting or sifting, winnowing, and other methods.
- To cut up (an animal or its flesh) for food; specifically (hunting), to remove the internal organs (of a game animal) shortly after it has been killed so that the carcass cools more quickly; to field dress.
- To design, make, or prepare costumes (for a play or other performance); also, to present (a production) in a particular costume style.
- To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid.
- To arrange (soldiers or troops) into proper formation; especially, to adjust (soldiers or troops) into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other; to align.
- To put on clothes.
- To allow one's penis to fall to one side or the other within one's trousers.
- To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
- Of soldiers or troops: to arrange into proper formation; especially, to form into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other.
- Of an animal carcass: to have a certain quantity or weight after removal of the internal organs and skin; also, to have a certain appearance after being cut up and prepared for cooking.
noun
- The external appearance of something, especially if intended to give a positive impression; garb, guise.
- Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- The external covering of an animal (for example, the feathers of a bird) or an object.
- An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.
- The appearance of an object after it has undergone some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use; finish.
verb
- To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- To thrive or grow well.
- To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- To be in a period of greatest influence.
- To prosper or fare well.
- To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
noun
verb
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- 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 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.
noun
- 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
- A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
- 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.
adj
verb
- To adorn or decorate (something).
- To fix spangles or sparkling objects to (something); to bespangle.
- To flash, glitter, or sparkle.
noun
- A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.
- Any small sparkling object.
- A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.
- A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.
- A shiny particle of a mineral.
- A star.
- Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.
verb
- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
- To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- To provide with a trap.
- To leave suddenly, to flee.
- To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
- Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
- To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
- to trap foxes
- To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
noun
- A person's mouth.
- An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
- A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
- A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
- The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
- A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- The trapezius muscle.
- A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
- Trapshooting.
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
- A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
- A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
- Belongings.
- The game of trapball itself.
- A cubicle (in a public toilet).
- A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
- A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
- A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
- A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
- An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
- A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.
verb
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
verb
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To do something badly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
noun
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A pool or puddle.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
verb
- To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
- To cause to move in a curve.
- To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
- To move in curves.
- To take part in the sport of curling.
- To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
- To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
- To make into a curl or spiral.
- To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
- To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
noun
- A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
- Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
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- The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇⨯⃑(·), that generates this field.
- Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
- A curved stroke or shape.
- Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
- A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
- The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
- The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
- A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
noun
- Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
- The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
- Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
- The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host
verb
- To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
- To decorate with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
- To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.
- To make festoons.
noun
- Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
- Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
- A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
- An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
- A raised cable with light globes attached.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
noun
verb
- To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
- To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
intj
noun
- A magic mushroom.
- Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- The face.
- A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
- A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
- The foam of a breaker.
- A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
noun
- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- The articles used in church services.
- A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
- A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
- A Christmas tree decoration.
verb
verb
- To decorate (something).
- To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
- To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
- To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
- To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
- To cover; to overspread.
noun
- A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
- A set of slides for a presentation.
- A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
- The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
- A pack or set of playing cards.
- A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
- The floor.
- The stage.
noun
- The deck or draw pile.
- A room dedicated to storing books.
- An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
- An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
- A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
- Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
- A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
- A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
noun
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- A difficult situation that must be endured.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A hybrid of any kind.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- crossfire.
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
verb
- Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To mark with an X.
- To score a try.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
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- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
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- An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
- A clustered formation of tumor cells.
- One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
- A rosette sampler.
- A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
- An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
- A floral pattern in latte art.
- A red color.
- A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
- A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
- A form of knot.
- A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
- Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- A rose burner.
- A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.
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- To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- To write (one's name) as a signature.
- To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- To determine the sign of
- To cross oneself.
- To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- To write one's signature.
- To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- To use sign language.
- To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
- To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- To communicate using a gesture or signal.
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- An astrological sign.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- Sign language in general.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A perceptible (e.g. visible) indication.
- A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- An omen.
- Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
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- Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
- representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.
- Metaphorically so called.
- Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.
- With many figures of speech.
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- A type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata.
- Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
- Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
- A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
- A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
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- An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
- A musical composition set to a poetical story.
- A plausible story set in the historical past, but whose historicity is uncertain.
- The design and specification of a vessel.
- A person with legend-like qualities, such as extraordinary accomplishment.
- A fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records.
- A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.
- A leading protagonist in a historical legend.
- A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
- A cool, nice or helpful person, especially one who is male.
- A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
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- A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- A mantling.
- A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
- The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- The zone of hot gases around a flame.
- The cerebral cortex.
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.)
- The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
- A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel
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