strip
piecen
tap
threadedly
data race
threadlessness
misthread
root
thread
mito-
torsion
threadbarity
chase
finespun
chaser
scob
die
sleeve
threadlike
spinworthy
sleave
filament
threaded
subthread
worm
gauge
string
fillet
double-threaded
unthread
faller
thrown
inductile
multithread
repair heddle
threadiness
threadlet
screw box
self-tapping screw
spinlock
tap bolt
chain stitch
lea
interlacery
threadish
strander
lock off
spinning
needleful
threadmaking
rethread
make off
filose
filamentose
unthreadable
oversubscription
thrill
rethreading
crochet
twine
lay eggs
work
nonthreaded
ravel
screw eye
plain weave
quadruple thread
ladder stitch
shuttle
taffeta weave
worker
clearance hole
leash
knitted
buttonhook
lead
interthread
set screw
threadless
threadful
protothread
stud bolt
misgrab
lathe
threadability
lisle
heddle
undersubscription
finespun
threadlike
spinworthy
threaded
double-threaded
thrown
inductile
multithread
threadish
filose
filamentose
unthreadable
nonthreaded
knitted
interthread
threadless
threadedly
tap
data race
threadlessness
root
thread
torsion
threadbarity
chaser
scob
die
sleeve
filament
subthread
worm
string
fillet
faller
repair heddle
threadiness
threadlet
screw box
self-tapping screw
spinlock
tap bolt
chain stitch
lea
interlacery
strander
spinning
needleful
threadmaking
oversubscription
rethreading
twine
ravel
screw eye
plain weave
quadruple thread
ladder stitch
shuttle
taffeta weave
worker
clearance hole
leash
buttonhook
lead
set screw
threadful
protothread
stud bolt
lathe
threadability
lisle
heddle
undersubscription
strip
piecen
misthread
tap
thread
chase
sleave
gauge
unthread
lock off
rethread
make off
thrill
crochet
lay eggs
work
misgrab
verb
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To perform a striptease.
- To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- To take off clothing.
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
noun
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- A strip steak.
- The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- A trough for washing ore.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A landing strip.
- A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- A comic strip.
- A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
noun
- A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- An interception of communication by authority.
- A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
- A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
- Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
- A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
- An Indian malarial fever.
- The act of touching a touch screen.
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
verb
- To cut an internal screw thread.
- To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel.
- To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To put a new sole or heel on.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
- To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
- To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
- To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- To furnish with taps.
- To exploit.
- To cadge, borrow or beg.
- To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
- To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
- To strike lightly.
- To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
- To make a sharp noise.
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- To force (an opponent) to submit.
noun
- The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- A sexual partner.
- The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- A zero (of an equation).
- The primary source; origin.
- The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- A penis, especially the base of a penis.
verb
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To turn up or dig with the snout.
- Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To root out; to abolish.
- To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
noun
- A screw thread.
- A sequence of connections.
- A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
- A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
- A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- A continued theme or idea.
- A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
- Composition; quality; fineness.
verb
noun
- That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
- The stopping of arterial haemorrhage in certain cases, by twisting the cut end of the artery.
- The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
noun
verb
- To cut (the thread of a screw).
- To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- To follow at speed.
- To seek to attain.
- To hunt.
- To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
- To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
- To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- To groove; indent.
- To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
noun
- A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
- One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- The cavity of a mold.
- A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
- A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- A children's game where one player chases another.
- A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
noun
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- Synonym of prison chaser (“person who guards military prisoners”)
- A horse: (originally) a horse used for hunting; (now) a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser.
- A drink drunk after another of a different kind.
- A piece of music, etc. played after a performance while the audience leaves.
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- A chubby chaser.
- In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- A tranny chaser.
- A chase gun.
- Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases.
- One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
noun
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
verb
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- Sleave; untwisted thread.
- The part of a garment that covers the arm.
- A serving of beer smaller than a pint, typically measuring between 12 and 16 ounces.
- A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
- A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers.
- A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD.
- A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
- A tattoo covering the whole arm.
- A narrow channel of water.
verb
noun
- A fine thread or wire.
- A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
- The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
noun
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- 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.
- 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
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- 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 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).
verb
- To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- To estimate.
- To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
noun
- Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- An act of measuring.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- Cannabis.
- An estimate.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
- The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
noun
- A thread
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- A stringed instrument.
- The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- A series of items or events.
- The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- Such a structure considered as a substance.
- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- Cannabis or marijuana.
- The points made in a game of billiards.
- A stringcourse.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
verb
- To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- To put strings on (something).
- To put (items) on a string.
noun
- The thread of a screw.
- Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- A colored or gilded border.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
verb
noun
noun
adj
verb
- To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.
- To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
- To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
noun
noun
- A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
- Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
- The act of twining or winding round.
- A twist; a convolution.
verb
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- To weave together.
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
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.
noun
- 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.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- 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.
adj
noun
- A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
- A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.
- A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
verb
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- To become entangled or snarled.
- Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
noun
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
- A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
- A shuttlecock.
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
verb
noun
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
verb
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
adj
adj
verb
- To pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
- To alter a fabric by weaving additional strands into it; to bring (two or more things) together like the strands in fabric; to bring (one thing) together (with another thing).
- To move alternately on either side of people or objects; to weave in and out.
- To integrate (strands of material into a fabric) by weaving.
- To be present in every part of (something) like strands running through it.
- To be or become woven or twisted together (with something); to be or become inextricably associated like strands woven or twisted together.
noun
- A screw with threads along the entire length and no head. Typically, set screws have a hex or slot drive recessed in the threaded length; a grub screw or worm screw.
- A screw with a head, usually hexagonal, like a bolt but without a shank to allow it to screw into material rather than take a nut; a tap bolt.
- Any screw used to hold or adjust a setting: frequently a set screw (sense 1), but may also be any other machine screw or thumb screw used for the purpose of setting.
noun
- One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
- A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
verb
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