bare hand
sidearm
on the ball
return
playing field
clear one's lines
soup bone
outfielder
lie
pass
fair
hike
nothing but net
claw
attack
ball game
hooker
pancake
throw-in
nonpitching
short pass
misfield
fat
moonball
other end of the ball
wing
kickball
haunch
dodgeball
glove
out of play
let
possession
touch
net ball
outswinger
one-shot
mid off
serve
smother
nutmeg
cheat the pocket
catch
racquetball
defensive field
keepy uppy
punchball
gaga ball
dump tackle
stickball
tackle
soft hands
turnover
passing
tag
infielder
sportsfield
game ball
call someone's number
down
puntabout
bandy
handpass
position
topspinner
submarine ball
tee off
ground
playball
nurdle
fungo
quarterback
submarine pitch
hold-up play
fielding
deep midwicket
cradle
nothing ball
goalball
ballgame
tee up
ball hog
wallball
wicket-keeping gloves
center field
center
airmail
flankerback
centerfield
out of bounds
play fine
sweeper
handball
long stop
late tackle
pad
fair
nonpitching
fat
out of play
one-shot
pass
passing
down
playing field
soup bone
outfielder
lie
nothing but net
claw
attack
ball game
hooker
pancake
throw-in
short pass
misfield
wing
kickball
dodgeball
let
possession
touch
net ball
outswinger
mid off
catch
racquetball
defensive field
keepy uppy
punchball
gaga ball
dump tackle
stickball
soft hands
turnover
infielder
sportsfield
game ball
puntabout
handpass
position
topspinner
submarine ball
playball
fungo
quarterback
submarine pitch
hold-up play
fielding
deep midwicket
cradle
nothing ball
goalball
nutmeg
tackle
ballgame
ball hog
wallball
wicket-keeping gloves
center field
center
flankerback
centerfield
out of bounds
sweeper
handball
long stop
late tackle
bare hand
sidearm
return
clear one's lines
pass
hike
moonball
haunch
glove
serve
smother
nutmeg
cheat the pocket
tackle
tag
call someone's number
bandy
tee off
ground
nurdle
tee up
airmail
play fine
pad
verb
- To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- To recur; to come again.
- To come or go back (to a place or person).
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- To report, or bring back and make known.
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- To place or put back something where it had been.
- To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- To say in reply; to respond.
- To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
noun
- The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- An answer.
- A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- A carriage return character.
- The act of returning.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
noun
- The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- The position of a fetus in the womb.
- Anything that misleads or disappoints.
- The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
- An animal's lair.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
- A manner of lying; relative position.
verb
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- To convey a false image or impression.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To be placed or situated.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
- To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
verb
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- 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 elapse, to be spent.
- 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 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".
adj
- Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
- Favorable to a ship's course.
- Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
- Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
- Just, equitable.
- Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
- Not a no ball.
- Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.
- Between the baselines.
- Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
- Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
- Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
adv
noun
- A fair woman; a sweetheart.
- A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).
- An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
- A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
- An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
- Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
verb
- To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
- To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
- To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
- To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
noun
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
noun
- Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- The beginning of active operations on anything.
- The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
verb
- To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- To apply violent force to someone or something.
- To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
noun
- Any game played with a ball.
- A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.
- Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
- A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.
- A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.
noun
- A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
- A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
- Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- Anything very thin and flat.
- A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
verb
noun
- A set-piece where the ball is thrown back into play
- A throw of the ball back into play by the boundary umpire. The umpire faces away from the players and throws it in over his or her shoulder (so as to clearly not favour either side by where exactly it's thrown).
- An extra item added free of charge; a product that is thrown in with another.
- the start time of a Gaelic football match, comparable to kick off in other games.
noun
- A pass of the ball that is primarily to the side rather than one that gains yardage.
- A pass of the ball between teammates too close together to allow an opponent to get between them. There is no particular distance the ball must travel to qualify as a short pass. For instance, if the passing player drops the ball and retreats before her teammate takes possession, it is not a short pass. A short pass is against the rules and results in a free pass to the opposition.
adj
- Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bountiful.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- Fertile; productive.
- Thick; large.
- Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- Bulbous; rotund.
noun
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- A fat person.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- An erection.
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
noun
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- Human arm.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A háček.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
- The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
- Something that is owned.
- Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
- Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
- A territory under the rule of another country.
- The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
- A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
noun
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
adj
- Involving a single act of launching a ball.
- Measuring something at a single point in time, with no control group.
- Unique; occurring only once.
- Needing only a single attempt to become effective.
- Performing all the necessary steps on every occurrence, rather than relying on previous setup.
- Involving a single gunshot.
- Holding 1.5 ounces.
verb
noun
- A music sample that is played without immediate repetition.
- A television program, film, or comic book that is not part of a series.
- A cinematographic shot of a person talking to camera; a talking head.
- A fanfic of only one chapter.
- A product that is sold on its own, rather than as part of a line of products.
- A single appearance by a performer.
- A monostable multivibrator.
- A programmable interval timer.
- A type of long-lasting paint.
- A gun that must be reloaded after firing a single shot.
- Something that occurs only once; a one-off.
verb
- put the ball into play
- serve a purpose, role, or function
- do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function
- contribute or conduce to
- be used by; as of a utility
- help to some food; help with food or drink
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas
- promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- work for, or be a servant to
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- do military service
- mate with
noun
verb
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- To cook in a close dish.
- To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- To be suffocated.
- to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- To daub or smear.
noun
verb
noun
- The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
- A grey-brown colour.
- The powdered seed, ready for use.
- An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
- A whole nutmeg seed.
- A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
noun
- The game of catching a ball.
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
verb
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
noun
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- A block and tackle.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- Clothing.
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
noun
- A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
- The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
- The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
- The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.
- A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (usually fruit).
- A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute.
adj
adj
noun
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- euphemistic expressions for death
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the end of something
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
adj
- lasting a very short time
- allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
adv
verb
- touch a player while he is holding the ball
- attach a tag or label to
- provide with a name or nickname
- go after with the intent to catch
- supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
noun
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
- a small piece of cloth
- a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
- (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
adv
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
noun
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
verb
- throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
- fix firmly and stably
- confine or restrict to the ground
- place or put on the ground
- instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- bring to the ground
- hit or reach the ground
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- connect to a ground
- use as a basis for; found on
noun
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
noun
- A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
- 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.
- 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 mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
- 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.
noun
- The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
- A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
- The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
- One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
- The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates.
- The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
- The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
- The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
- A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.
- The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
- A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
- A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
- The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
- The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
- The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
- The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
- One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
- A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
adj
verb
- To give (something) a central basis.
- To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
- To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
- To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
- To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
noun
- A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
- A vacuum cleaner.
- A batsman who plays sweep shots.
- A carpet sweeper.
- A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
- A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
- A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
- A detector (for mines).
- One who sweeps.
- A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
- The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
- Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
- A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.
noun
- The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
- A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
- The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
- A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
- The small rubber ball used in this sport.
- An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
verb
- To insert a hand into someone's anus.
- To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
- To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
verb
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To stuff.
- To travel on foot.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
intj
noun
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A prison cell.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- A toad.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A bed.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
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