English words for 'To disport.'
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- (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
- (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A stupid person.
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- an ignorant or foolish person
- a person who does not talk
- a figure representing the human form
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- (sports) A feint.
- (Southern US, countable) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
- (countable) Clipping of jukebox.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
- The neck of a bird.
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
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- (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
- To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
- To hit.
- (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
- To stab.
- To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
- (transitive) To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.
- (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
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- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- (informal, transitive, humorous) To take or retell someone else’s joke; to use a clever phrase or expression from someone else in one's own speaking or writing.
- (transitive, informal, figurative) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (informal, transitive, hyperbolic) To borrow for a short moment.
- (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- steal a base
- move stealthily
- take without the owner's consent
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- (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (slang, figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- The act of stealing.
- a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
- an advantageous purchase
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- (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
- (intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.
- (transitive, business, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
- (transitive, cricket) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
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- (transitive, sports) To remove a player from play.
- (transitive) To place on a bench or seat of honour.
- Alternative spelling of bentsh.
- (transitive, figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
- (transitive and intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
- (transitive) To furnish with benches.
- (slang) To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
- exhibit on a bench
- To exercise using a bench press
- take out of a game; of players
- To lift a weight using a bench press
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- (Australia, New Zealand) A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.
- (law, figuratively) The people who decide on the verdict, collectively; the judiciary.
- (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
- A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
- (geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
- (sports, politics, figuratively) The number of players on a team able to participate, often expressed in terms of length.
- (government) A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.
- A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
- (figuratively) The dignity of holding an official seat.
- (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
- A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
- A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
- (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
- A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
- (figuratively) The people who hold a certain type of official seat, collectively; a group of officeholders.
- (law, figuratively) The office or dignity of a judge.
- a long seat for more than one person
- a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic
- the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively
- a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- the reserve players on a team
- (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom
- persons who administer justice
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- (sports) An offside play.
- The right-hand side of a working animal such as a horse or bullock, especially when in harness.
- (British) The side of a canal opposite the towpath.
- (British, Australia) The side of a road vehicle furthest from the kerb: the right side if one drives on the left of the road.
- (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)
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- (bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.
- (sports) In an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.
- (by extension, slang) Out of bounds.
- To the side of a boat, opposite the primary side on which one paddles.
- (US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk.
- illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck
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- (sports) Without the presence of opponents nearby.
- (idiomatic) Unsettled or unresolved.
- (idiomatic) Vulnerable or unprotected.
- Completely open.
- (finance) Of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bids and asking prices.
- (idiomatic) Having no laws or law enforcement.
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- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
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- (sports) To lower the standing of.
- (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
- (transitive) To make ill.
- (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
- (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
- (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
- (intransitive) To become ill.
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
- get sick
- make sick or ill
- upset and make nauseated
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- (of a sports match) To begin.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.
- (basketball) To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents.
- (transitive and intransitive, painting) To use a particular brush technique for producing a flawless surface on a wet coat of paint.
- give insider information or advise to
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- (transitive, sports) To pass to.
- (transitive) To supply with something.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- simple past and past participle of fee
- (transitive, syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
- (transitive, phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- introduce continuously
- move along, of liquids
- gratify
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- support or promote
- feed into; supply
- provide as food
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
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- Something supplied continuously.
- (social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- food for domestic livestock
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- (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A swim under water.
- plural of diva
- A downward swooping motion.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- A decline.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
- (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
- a headlong plunge into water
- a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
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- (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
- (cricket) To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
- (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
- (intransitive) To swim under water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
- (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
- swim under water
- drop steeply
- plunge into water
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- (sports) To blow the whistle.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
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- (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
- (comparable) Fair, generous; game.
- (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
- relating to or used in sports
- exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
- involving risk or willingness to take a risk
- preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
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- (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
- To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
- To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
- (transitive) To disallow or reject.
- (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- refuse to recognize or acknowledge
- deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
- declare untrue; contradict
- refuse to accept or believe
- refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
- refuse to let have
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- (sports) An assist.
- Acre.
- (sexuality) Asexual.
- (UK, chiefly London) Arsehole.
- Answer.
- (physics) Angstrom.
- Ace. (including in card games)
- Adult; as used in film rating.
- (weaponry) Atom.
- Ammeter.
- a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
- the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet
- (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA
- any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes
- nucleotide derived from adenine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
- the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen
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- (medicine) A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type A or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or B.
- A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.
- (logic) A universal affirmative suggestion.
- (education) The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).
- (music) A tone three fifths above C in the cycle of fifths; the sixth tone of the C major scale; the first note of the minor scale of A minor; the reference tone that occurs at exactly 440 Hz; the printed or written note A; the scale with A as its keynote.
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of A.M. and AM (“ante meridiem”).
- (chemistry) Mass number.
- Allele dominant.
- (historical) Abbreviation of adulterer or adulteress, used as a human brand.
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- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
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- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
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- (athletics, American football) In American football or Canadian football, a play that begins with a snap from the center while opposing teams are on either side of a line of scrimmage.
- (US, athletics, soccer) In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record.
- A rough fight.
- a noisy riotous fight
- (American football) practice play between a football team's squads
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- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
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- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
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- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
- a contest between athletes
- participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity
- (sports, especially British) A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
- plural of athletic
- (sports, especially US) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
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- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- a person known for the way they behave when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
- (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine
- someone who engages in sports
- (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- (biology, botany, zoology, countable) 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.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
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- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- play boisterously
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- 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.
- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
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- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
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- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
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- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
noun
- A distaff.
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
verb
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
noun
noun
- (sports) A feint.
- (Southern US, countable) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
- (countable) Clipping of jukebox.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
- The neck of a bird.
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
verb
- (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
- To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
- To hit.
- (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
- To stab.
- To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
- (transitive) To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.
- (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
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noun
verb
intj
noun
- (sports) An offside play.
- The right-hand side of a working animal such as a horse or bullock, especially when in harness.
- (British) The side of a canal opposite the towpath.
- (British, Australia) The side of a road vehicle furthest from the kerb: the right side if one drives on the left of the road.
- (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)
adj
- (bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.
- (sports) In an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.
- (by extension, slang) Out of bounds.
- To the side of a boat, opposite the primary side on which one paddles.
- (US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk.
- illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck
adv
noun
noun
noun
noun
- (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A swim under water.
- plural of diva
- A downward swooping motion.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- A decline.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
- (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
- a headlong plunge into water
- a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
verb
- (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
- (cricket) To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
- (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
- (intransitive) To swim under water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
- (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
- swim under water
- drop steeply
- plunge into water
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noun
noun
adj
- (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
- (comparable) Fair, generous; game.
- (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
- relating to or used in sports
- exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
- involving risk or willingness to take a risk
- preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
verb
noun
- (sports) An assist.
- Acre.
- (sexuality) Asexual.
- (UK, chiefly London) Arsehole.
- Answer.
- (physics) Angstrom.
- Ace. (including in card games)
- Adult; as used in film rating.
- (weaponry) Atom.
- Ammeter.
- a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
- the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet
- (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA
- any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes
- nucleotide derived from adenine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
- the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen
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character
num
symbol
- (medicine) A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type A or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or B.
- A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.
- (logic) A universal affirmative suggestion.
- (education) The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).
- (music) A tone three fifths above C in the cycle of fifths; the sixth tone of the C major scale; the first note of the minor scale of A minor; the reference tone that occurs at exactly 440 Hz; the printed or written note A; the scale with A as its keynote.
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of A.M. and AM (“ante meridiem”).
- (chemistry) Mass number.
- Allele dominant.
- (historical) Abbreviation of adulterer or adulteress, used as a human brand.
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noun
noun
noun
noun
- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
verb
noun
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
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verb
- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
noun
- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
- a contest between athletes
- participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity
- (sports, especially British) A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
- plural of athletic
- (sports, especially US) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
noun
- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- a person known for the way they behave when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
- (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine
- someone who engages in sports
- (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- (biology, botany, zoology, countable) 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.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
verb
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- play boisterously
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- 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.
- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
noun
- A distaff.
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
verb
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
verb
adv
noun
- (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
- (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A stupid person.
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- an ignorant or foolish person
- a person who does not talk
- a figure representing the human form
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verb
- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- (informal, transitive, humorous) To take or retell someone else’s joke; to use a clever phrase or expression from someone else in one's own speaking or writing.
- (transitive, informal, figurative) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (informal, transitive, hyperbolic) To borrow for a short moment.
- (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- steal a base
- move stealthily
- take without the owner's consent
noun
- (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (slang, figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- The act of stealing.
- a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
- an advantageous purchase
verb
- (transitive, sports) To remove a player from play.
- (transitive) To place on a bench or seat of honour.
- Alternative spelling of bentsh.
- (transitive, figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
- (transitive and intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
- (transitive) To furnish with benches.
- (slang) To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
- exhibit on a bench
- To exercise using a bench press
- take out of a game; of players
- To lift a weight using a bench press
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand) A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.
- (law, figuratively) The people who decide on the verdict, collectively; the judiciary.
- (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
- A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
- (geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
- (sports, politics, figuratively) The number of players on a team able to participate, often expressed in terms of length.
- (government) A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.
- A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
- (figuratively) The dignity of holding an official seat.
- (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
- A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
- A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
- (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
- A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
- (figuratively) The people who hold a certain type of official seat, collectively; a group of officeholders.
- (law, figuratively) The office or dignity of a judge.
- a long seat for more than one person
- a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic
- the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively
- a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- the reserve players on a team
- (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom
- persons who administer justice
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noun
verb
verb
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
verb
- (sports) To lower the standing of.
- (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
- (transitive) To make ill.
- (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
- (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
- (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
- (intransitive) To become ill.
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
- get sick
- make sick or ill
- upset and make nauseated
verb
- (of a sports match) To begin.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.
- (basketball) To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents.
- (transitive and intransitive, painting) To use a particular brush technique for producing a flawless surface on a wet coat of paint.
- give insider information or advise to
verb
- (transitive, sports) To pass to.
- (transitive) To supply with something.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- simple past and past participle of fee
- (transitive, syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
- (transitive, phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- introduce continuously
- move along, of liquids
- gratify
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- support or promote
- feed into; supply
- provide as food
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
noun
- Something supplied continuously.
- (social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- food for domestic livestock
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- (sports) To blow the whistle.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
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- (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
- To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
- To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
- (transitive) To disallow or reject.
- (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- refuse to recognize or acknowledge
- deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
- declare untrue; contradict
- refuse to accept or believe
- refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
- refuse to let have
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- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
noun
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
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- (athletics, American football) In American football or Canadian football, a play that begins with a snap from the center while opposing teams are on either side of a line of scrimmage.
- (US, athletics, soccer) In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record.
- A rough fight.
- a noisy riotous fight
- (American football) practice play between a football team's squads
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- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
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- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
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- (sports) Without the presence of opponents nearby.
- (idiomatic) Unsettled or unresolved.
- (idiomatic) Vulnerable or unprotected.
- Completely open.
- (finance) Of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bids and asking prices.
- (idiomatic) Having no laws or law enforcement.
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- (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
- (comparable) Fair, generous; game.
- (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
- relating to or used in sports
- exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
- involving risk or willingness to take a risk
- preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance