wire
hook
razor wire
peg
peg down
pin
fence wire
lash
bottle screw
corkscrew
belt
recorker
chain
hank
bight
interwire
strap
pincase
tie
bind
spider
female
cable
cable tie
capsuler
smoothwire
reed knife
reticulation
body wire
cord
podger
body cord
fastening
wine cooler
strap up
union tee
gauge
strapping
belace
score string
eyelet
cringle
toggle
loop
staple
grommet
rezipper
grummet
blunt
wirer
in tow
spinner
bobwire
aiglet
wire netting
kayle
handspike
laniard
concertina
fencer
cradle
lanyard
fleuret
swordsman
bondable
corker
rat-tail splice
bindable
lineman splice
porte-épée
rope
snake
Western Union splice
wirebound
hooksetting
draw
rolling hitch
agraffe
barbwire
fid
barbed wire
multiwires
gudgeon pin
bait-cord
sword knot
devil's rope
trip cord
snap
wire speed
wrist pin
leash
interwire
bondable
bindable
wirebound
razor wire
fence wire
bottle screw
corkscrew
recorker
pincase
spider
female
cable tie
capsuler
smoothwire
reed knife
reticulation
body wire
podger
body cord
fastening
wine cooler
union tee
gauge
strapping
wire
score string
eyelet
cringle
toggle
loop
staple
grommet
grummet
blunt
wirer
spinner
bobwire
aiglet
pin
wire netting
kayle
handspike
laniard
concertina
fencer
cradle
lanyard
fleuret
swordsman
corker
rat-tail splice
hank
lineman splice
porte-épée
snake
Western Union splice
hooksetting
rolling hitch
agraffe
barbwire
fid
barbed wire
multiwires
gudgeon pin
bait-cord
sword knot
devil's rope
trip cord
snap
wire speed
wrist pin
wire
hook
peg
peg down
pin
lash
belt
chain
hank
bight
strap
tie
bind
cable
cord
strap up
belace
rezipper
rope
draw
leash
verb
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To string on a wire.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To install eavesdropping equipment.
- To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
noun
- A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A knitting needle.
- Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A telecommunication wire or cable.
- An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- A deadline or critical endpoint.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- A finish line of a racetrack.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
verb
- fasten with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- take by theft
- make off with belongings of others
- hit with a hook
- catch with a hook
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
noun
- a catch for locking a door
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
verb
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- succeed in obtaining a position
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
noun
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
verb
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone).
noun
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
noun
verb
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
adj
noun
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
verb
- To fasten a belt on.
- To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- To hit with a belt.
- To scream or sing in a loud manner.
- To move very fast.
- To encircle.
- To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- To hit someone or something.
- To drink quickly, often in gulps.
noun
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
- One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
- A quick drink of liquor.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
verb
- To fasten something with a chain.
- To link multiple items together.
- To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- To obligate.
- To secure someone with fetters.
- To load and automatically run (a program).
- To be chained to another data item.
noun
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A long measuring tape.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- The warp threads of a web.
- A series of interconnected things.
verb
noun
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- Doubt, difficulty.
- Mess, tangle.
- A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
adj
verb
- To fasten or bind with a strap.
- To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
noun
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Synonym of strapline
- A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
- A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
verb
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- form a knot or bow in
- create social or emotional ties
- perform a marriage ceremony
- make by tying pieces together
- unite musical notes by a tie
noun
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a social or business relationship
- equality of score in a contest
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
verb
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- stick to firmly
- create social or emotional ties
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
- wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
- secure with or as if with ropes
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- provide with a binding
- form a chemical bond with
- cause to be constipated
noun
noun
- The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- A soft-hackle fly.
- A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- A spider graph or spider tree.
- A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- Heroin.
- A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
- Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- A spindly person.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
verb
noun
- A female connector, pipe fitting, etc.
- A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
- An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
- A human of the feminine sex.
- A bacterium which lacks the F factor, and is able to receive DNA from another bacterium which has that factor.
adj
- Lacking the F factor, and able to receive DNA from another bacterium which does have this factor (a male).
- Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
- Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
- Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
- Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
verb
noun
verb
- To tie or fasten with cords
- To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
- To furnish with cords
- To flatten a book during binding
noun
- Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
- A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
- A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
- Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
- A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
noun
- the thickness of wire
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
verb
noun
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar
- fabric decorated with small holes with finely stitched edges that form an ornamental pattern.
noun
- a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)
- any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
- a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
verb
noun
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself)
- (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated
- an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan)
- the basic pattern of the human fingerprint
- a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied
- the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component
- an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop
- a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates
- a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane
verb
noun
- A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- A small pit.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- A recurring topic or character.
- A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
verb
adj
noun
- A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
- A marijuana cigar.
- A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
- A short needle with a strong point.
adj
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
verb
noun
- A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
- A record turntable or CD player.
- A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- A spin bowler.
- The Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A spinneret.
- The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- The dolphin Stenella longirostris.
- A spin doctor.
noun
noun
- A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.
- An ornament worn on clothing, consisting of a metal tag on a fringe, or a small metallic plate or spangle.
noun
- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
- Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
verb
noun
- A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
- Infancy, or very early life.
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
- The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
- A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
- A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
verb
- To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
- To rock (a baby to sleep).
- To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- To nurse or train in infancy.
- To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
- To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
- To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
verb
- To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- To tie (something) with rope.
- To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
noun
- A cohesive strand of something.
- A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
- Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
- A hard line drive.
- The small intestines.
- Semen being ejaculated.
- Death by hanging.
- An individual length of such material.
- A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- Rohypnol.
- Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
noun
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- A series of Bézier curves.
- The seventh Lenormand card.
- A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
- A treacherous person; a rat.
- Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
- Trouser snake; the penis.
- An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
verb
- To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- To inform; to rat.
- To clean using a plumbing snake.
- To follow or move in a winding route.
- To steal slyly.
- To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
verb
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- 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 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 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.
noun
- A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
- A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
- A small thick piece of anything.
- A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
- The penis.
- A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.
verb
noun
noun
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
verb
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
adj
English words for 'To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.'
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