fossick
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look up
office
wise to
knowing
publication
wise
informatory
worm
acquisitive
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unbosom
impartation
conveyance
give someone the runaround
pry
across
privy
relay
draw
learn
leaker
scunge
skinny
hear
draft
rake
outtalk
drop a dime on someone
informationally
divulgement
tell of
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squeal
convey
warn
enterprisingness
informee
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hip
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kleptography
send word
secretive
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snoop
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communicating
juke
canary
tip-off
spill the tea
give notice
eyewash
snow
wise up
horn in
black-bag
siloism
clue
appraise
swap spit
tell tales out of school
circulation
wrangle
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verb
- To extract, bring out, as concealed information; elicit; educe.
- To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or similar hiding place.
- To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards.
- To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
- To cause (a shy person) to be more open or talkative.
- To make something last for more time than is necessary; prolong; extend.
verb
- To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something.
- To reconnect or meet with someone that one used to know.
- To obtain information about something from a reference book.
- To have better prospects.
- To enter a query into a database or search engine.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, up.
noun
- Inside information.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- A daily service without the eucharist.
- A ministry or other department of government.
- The administrative departments housed in such places
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- A service, a kindness.
- Last rites.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
- A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- The staff of such places.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- A ceremonial duty or service
- Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- A position of responsibility.
verb
verb
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
verb
- relieve oneself of troubling information
- provide physical relief, as from pain
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- provide relief for
- free from a burden, evil, or distress
- take by stealing
- grant exemption or release to
- alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
verb
- Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort.
- To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
- To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.
- To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
noun
prep
- In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
- From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
- At or near the far end of (a space).
- across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
- To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
- Throughout.
- Spanning.
- On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
adv
noun
verb
noun
- A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.
- An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
- A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
- A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.
- A new set of hounds.
- A new set of anything.
verb
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To receive information about; to come to learn of.
- To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
- To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
- To study under.
- To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
- To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
- To perceive sounds through the ear.
- To be contacted by.
- To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
intj
verb
- To draw out; to call forth.
- To write a law.
- To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
- To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
- To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
- To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
- To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.
- To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
- To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
- To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
adj
- Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
- Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
noun
- Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
- The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
- The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
- The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
- An act of drinking.
- A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
- A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
- An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.
- The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
- A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
verb
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
verb
- To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
- To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
intj
noun
- The fruit of a rose.
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
adj
verb
noun
verb
verb
- transmit information
- go across or through
- move past
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- for time to move forward
- place into the hands or custody of
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- travel past
- come to pass
- go unchallenged; be approved
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- pass over, across, or through
- disappear gradually
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- be superior or better than some standard
- accept or judge as acceptable
- allow to go without comment or censure
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- throw (a ball) to another player
- be inherited by
- cause to pass
- grant authorization or clearance for
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
adj
noun
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- (military) a written leave of absence
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a difficult juncture
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- a complimentary ticket
- a usually brief attempt
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
adj
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- marked by fidelity to an original
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- crowded
- lacking fresh air
- of textiles
- strictly confined or guarded
- confined to specific persons
- fitting closely but comfortably
- used of hair or haircuts
- giving or spending with reluctance
verb
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- become closed
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- come to a close
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- engage at close quarters
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- come together, as if in an embrace
- draw near
- bring together all the elements or parts of
- bar access to
- fill or stop up
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
adj
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- close in relevance or relationship
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
noun
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the last section of a communication
- the concluding part of any performance
adv
noun
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- The act of sneaking
- A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
verb
- To stealthily bring someone something.
- To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- To take something stealthily without permission.
adj
verb
- To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
- To manipulate deceptively.
- to stab
- to hit
- To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
- to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke
- to thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse
- To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer
noun
verb
- to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
- to test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
- to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)
noun
- A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
- An informer or snitch; a squealer.
- A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
- A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
- A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
- A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
- A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
- Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
- Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
adj
verb
- To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
- To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.
- To have snow fall from the sky.
noun
- The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
- The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
- marine snow
- A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
- A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
- Cocaine.
- Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
- A shade of the color white.
noun
- the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area
- the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines)
- movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels
- (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period
- number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold
- free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant)
verb
- Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.
- To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker.
- To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.
- To argue, to debate; also (dated), to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university.
- To make harsh noises as if quarrelling.
- To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.
- To herd (horses or other livestock).
- To manage or supervise (people).
noun
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