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verb
- To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- To cancel a project or product.
- To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
noun
- A racetrack, hippodrome; or the sport of racing horses.
- A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- A block of peat used as fuel.
- A territory claimed by a person, gang, etc., as their own.
verb
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To shut up.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
noun
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- Jail or prison.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
verb
- To fire or reject.
- To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
- To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- To hit or strike.
- To mishit (a golf ball).
- To level up.
- To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- To dash; to throw violently.
noun
noun
- A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
- A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
- Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”)
- A person who sacks or plunders.
- A machine or device for filling sacks.
- A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
- A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
verb
- To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- To conclude.
- To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- To kill someone or something.
- To issue or result.
- To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
adj
verb
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To release (an accumulated charge).
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
noun
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The process of flowing out.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- The process of unloading something.
verb
- To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
noun
- Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.
- The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense⁴ below.
- The scrotum.
- Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
noun
- The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
- A tyre.
- A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
- The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
- That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
- An unattractive person, ugly woman.
- The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
- Profit, plunder.
- A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
- A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
- A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
- A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
- A bootleg recording.
- A bobbled ball.
- A blow with the foot; a kick.
- A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
- A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
- A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
- A black person.
verb
- To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
- To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
- To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
- To vomit.
- To eject; kick out.
- To kick.
- To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
- To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
- To put boots on, especially for riding.
- To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
noun
- The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
- A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
- A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
verb
- to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
- To sweep with a broom.
- To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
noun
- A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
- A shotgun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
verb
- To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
- To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
- To get a batsman out.
- To give someone a red card; to send off.
- To reject; to refuse to accept.
- To order to leave.
- To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
- To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
noun
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
- An induced abortion.
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- An outcome or result.
- The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
verb
- To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
- To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
- To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
- To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
noun
noun
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
verb
- To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
- To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
- To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
- To prevent publication.
- To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
- To stop a flow or stream.
- To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
verb
- To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
- To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
- To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
noun
- A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
- A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
- Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
verb
- To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
- To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
- To call again, to call another time.
- To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
noun
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
verb
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To start; to launch.
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To die or quit permanently.
verb
- (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
verb
- To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
- To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
verb
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To grow; to advance.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
intj
noun
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
- the act of liberating someone or something
- a process that liberates or discharges something
- an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
- euphemistic expressions for death
- a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
verb
- release, as from one's grip
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- eliminate (a substance)
- generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
- make (information) available for publication
- part with a possession or right
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- make (assets) available
noun
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
- An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.
- A text character that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
- A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
- An intelligent android created to destroy humans.
verb
- To dismiss from employment.
- To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation.
- To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- To gain weight
verb
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
- To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- (To cause) to become scorched or singed
- To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
noun
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