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verb
- To expend; to consume by employing.
- To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
- To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
- To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- To exploit.
- To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
- To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
noun
- A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- Usefulness, benefit.
- The act of using.
- A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
- The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
verb
verb
- To make use of; to employ.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
- To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To repeat an activity in this way.
verb
- To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- To conserve.
- To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
- To provide with a husband.
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A prudent or frugal manager.
- The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- A polled tree; a pollard.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
noun
- The action of making such expenditures.
- The amount or portion of a person's or group's expenditures which is used for non-essential or voluntary disbursements; the amount or portion of one's expenditures which one may make as one sees fit.
- US government expenditures which are subject to annual review and authorization by Congress, as distinct from expenditures authorized by existing laws.
verb
- To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.
- To concoct; think up.
- To prepare a body for burial.
- To arrange in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection).
- To lie in the sunshine.
- To render (someone) unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor.
- simple past tense of lie out
- To scold or berate.
- To explain; to interpret.
noun
noun
- Something on which effort is expended.
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
verb
- To supply or contribute.
- To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- To occasion or bring about.
- To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
intj
adv
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
- favorably; with approval
- to a great extent or degree
- with great or especially intimate knowledge
- with prudence or propriety
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- in financial comfort
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
adj
adj
noun
- a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- an abundant source
- an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
verb
verb
noun
- An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
- A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
- The act of catering to someone's every desire.
- The act of indulging.
- Tolerance.
- A wish or whim satisfied.
- Something in which someone indulges.
verb
- To spend (money).
- To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
- To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- To roughly fill with color.
- To hit or expel liquid at.
- To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
- To launch a ship.
- To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
noun
- A small amount (of color).
- The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
- An impact or impression.
- A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- A small amount of liquid.
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- A large, prominent headline or article.
- A splash screen.
- The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
- A knife.
- The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
verb
- To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- To produce as a result.
- To give, or give forth, (anything).
- To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- To produce as return, as from an investment.
- To give way; to succumb to a force.
- To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
- To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- To give way; to allow another to pass first.
noun
verb
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- To have on hand for sale.
adj
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
noun
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Lineage, family, ancestry.
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- A share in a company.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- A ski pole.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
verb
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
verb
- To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- To be valid.
- Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- To remain without ruin or injury.
- To place in an upright or standing position.
- To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- To appear in court.
- To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- To be positioned to gain or lose.
- To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- To remain motionless.
- To be present, to have welled up.
- To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
- To measure when erect on the feet.
- To be a candidate (in an election).
- To act as an umpire.
- To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- To tolerate.
- To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
noun
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A single set, as of arms.
- The act of standing.
- A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- A partnership.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- A type of supernatural ability from the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
verb
- To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- To enter into a contract with.
- To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
- To betroth; to affiance.
- To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- To gain or acquire (an illness).
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
noun
- An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
- An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
- The document containing such an agreement.
- A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
verb
- To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- To come into gear with.
- To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
- To draw into conversation.
- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- To enter into battle.
verb
- To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- To desist; to stop; to refrain.
noun
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- That which has not been used or expended.
adj
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
verb
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To turn in a different direction.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To ride on a swing.
- To dance.
- To fluctuate or change.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
noun
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A dance style.
- In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
adj
prep
- In the employment of.
- Against.
- In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
- Having, owning.
- In addition to; as an accessory to.
- Using as an instrument; by means of.
- Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
- Prompted by (a certain emotion).
- In regard to.
- Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
- Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
- In support of.
adv
verb
- To apportion out, distribute.
- To give, as an oath.
- To minister (to).
- To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
- To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
- (medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.
- (medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
noun
- the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
- aiding the cause or policy or interests of
- something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- documentary validation
- the financial means whereby one lives
- supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
- the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- any device that bears the weight of another thing
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
verb
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- support materially or financially
- be behind; approve of
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- adopt as a belief
- support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- argue or speak in defense of
- play a subordinate role to (another performer)
- be a regular customer or client of
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
verb
- To spend a lot of money; to splurge.
- to exhaust; to physically tire
- In a sporting contest, to dominate and defeat an opposing team, especially by a large scoring margin.
- To deflate quickly on being punctured.
- To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas.
- To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour.
- To sing out, sing out loud.
verb
noun
- Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
- Something that can be used to help achieve an aim, especially a book, equipment, etc. that provides information for teachers and students.
- A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.
- Hardware or software accessible by a computer, network, or another object connected to a computer.
verb
- To manage with care and economy.
- To drink slowly, to make it last.
- To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
- To foster, to nourish.
- To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
- To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
- To treat kindly and with extra care.
- To hold closely to one's chest
- To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
noun
- One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
- A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
- A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
- A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
- A person trained to provide care for the sick.
- A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
- A nurse shark or dogfish.
verb
- To take into account by making an allowance.
- To not bar or obstruct.
- To render physically possible.
- To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
- To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
- To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
- To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
verb
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- 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 elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- 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.
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