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verb
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
adj
adj
verb
- To seize, as though with claws.
- To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
- To hatch.
- To grip or grasp tightly.
- To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
noun
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
adj
verb
- dig with the snout
- take root and begin to grow
- come into existence, originate
- cheer for
- plant by the roots
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- cause to take roots
noun
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
verb
- To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
- To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
verb
- To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
- To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
- To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
- To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
noun
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- A small space or distance.
- A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A stepchild.
- A stepsibling.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
verb
- To dance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To set, as the foot.
verb
- To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- To leave in a hurry; to go away.
- To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
noun
verb
- To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- To thrust; to poke.
noun
- Digoxin.
- A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- A thrust; a poke.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- An innings.
verb
verb
noun
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
verb
- To strike or attack with the fangs.
- To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
- To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.
- To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
- To drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.
noun
- That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
- Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
- A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
- A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
- The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
- a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
- a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
- Catches on which the coal mining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off.
- The valve of a pump box.
verb
- To put forth or have a blade.
- To stab with a blade
- To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
- To furnish with a blade.
- To skate on rollerblades.
noun
- A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
- A homosexual, usually male.
- An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- Thin plate, foil.
- The principal rafters of a roof.
- A blade server.
- An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- Synonym of knifeblade
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- A sword or knife.
verb
- To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- To dig, to spade.
- To utter (something) violently.
- To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
- To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
- To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
- To rap, to utter.
- To plant (something) using a spade.
- (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
- To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
- To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
- To rain or snow slightly.
noun
- An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- Synonym of slam (“card game”)
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image).
- A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
- Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
noun
adj
verb
- To grind or wear down through friction.
- To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
- To undergo a reduction in number.
noun
- A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or death.
- Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
- Imperfect contrition or remorse.
- The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve productive use of the resource.
- The loss of participants during an experiment.
- The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
- The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
noun
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- A cut of the take (money).
- A job or trade.
- A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- A con job.
- A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- Corruption in official life.
- A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- Work; labor requiring effort.
verb
- To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- To form a graft polymer
- To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To work hard.
- To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
noun
- The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
- The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
- The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
- The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel.
- The area on the front of a computing device surrounding the display.
adj
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Scribbly.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- Stunted.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
noun
- A shaft or excavation.
- A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
- A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)
- The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
- A fixed routine.
- A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
verb
verb
- To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- To pick one's nose.
- To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
noun
- Any source of wealth or resources.
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
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