turf
give someone their cards
hand someone their cards
can
tintack
sack
give the elbow
get the bullet
sacker
unhire
serve notice
discharge
ding
firable
resign
give the axe
select out
amove
termination
lose one's head
let go
give someone the heave-ho
sacking
get the sack
get the chop
get the boot
get the elbow
give up
shoot
light
remove
boot
cut corners
send someone packing
hang up one's spurs
get around
relieve
fall on one's sword
weasel out
discard
botch
catch a packet
enter
accede
buang
quit
lay off
chopped
save
catapult
terminate
dock
rend
fainaigue
void
go out
burn away
cop-out
retire
attrit
combust
bundle
downsize
shrink from
out on one's ear
elide
fiddle
goldbrick
scorch
bludge
bungle
flinch
firer
shirk
get the job done
rescind
shutter
spark
shit-can
task
chuck away
constructive dismissal
recoil
give over
quittable
fold
dismiss
quiet quit
top out
expunge
delegate
work
removability
ball-breaker
be up to
ball-buster
break
cushy number
firable
chopped
out on one's ear
quittable
sacker
sack
termination
sacking
boot
cop-out
firer
constructive dismissal
removability
ball-breaker
ball-buster
cushy number
turf
give someone their cards
hand someone their cards
can
tintack
sack
give the elbow
get the bullet
unhire
serve notice
discharge
ding
resign
give the axe
select out
amove
lose one's head
let go
give someone the heave-ho
get the sack
get the chop
get the boot
get the elbow
give up
shoot
light
remove
cut corners
send someone packing
hang up one's spurs
get around
relieve
fall on one's sword
weasel out
discard
botch
catch a packet
enter
accede
buang
quit
lay off
save
catapult
terminate
dock
rend
fainaigue
void
go out
burn away
retire
attrit
combust
bundle
downsize
shrink from
elide
fiddle
goldbrick
scorch
bludge
bungle
flinch
shirk
get the job done
rescind
shutter
spark
shit-can
task
chuck away
recoil
give over
fold
dismiss
quiet quit
top out
expunge
delegate
work
be up to
break
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 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
- 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 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 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 expelling or letting go.
- 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 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
- 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 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 stop or quit (an activity, etc.)
- To admit defeat, capitulate
- Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, &c.
- To abandon (someone or something)
- To relinquish (something)
- To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
- To surrender (someone or something)
- To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
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.
intj
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.
verb
- To set fire to; to set burning.
- To start (a fire).
- To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- To become ignited; to take fire.
- To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To find by chance.
adv
noun
- A low-alcohol lager.
- A source of illumination.
- A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- A cigarette lighter.
- The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler who is receiving instructions.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.
- The power of perception by vision.
adj
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- With low viscosity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- Served with extra milk or cream.
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
verb
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To murder.
- To move something or someone from one place to another, especially to take away.
- To dismiss a batsman.
- To delete.
noun
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- Emotional distance or indifference.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- The act of removing something.
- A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
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.
verb
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To visit numerous different places.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
verb
- To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
- To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
- To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
- To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
- To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
- To urinate or defecate.
- To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm.
- To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.
- To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
- To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
verb
- To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
- To repair or mend clumsily.
- To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
noun
- An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
- A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
- A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
- A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
- A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
verb
verb
- To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- To leave (a place).
- To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
- To close (an application).
- To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- To abandon, renounce (a thing).
noun
adj
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 spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To store for future use.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
noun
- The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- A saving throw.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
prep
conj
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 cut off, bar, or destroy.
- To join two moving items.
- To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
- To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
- To land at a harbour.
- To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
- To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
noun
- The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
- A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
- An act of docking; joining two things together.
- Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
- The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
- A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- The body of water between two piers.
verb
noun
- An empty place; A location that has nothing useful.
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- A black cat.
adj
- That does not return a value; a procedure.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
verb
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- To fail.
- To recede; to ebb.
- To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- To leave, especially a building.
- To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- To die.
- To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To pass out of fashion.
- To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
verb
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- withdraw from active participation
- pull back or move away or backward
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- lose interest
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- cause to get out
- prepare for sleep
verb
- To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- To dress someone warmly.
- To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- To hurry.
- To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
- To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
noun
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
- A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- A large amount, especially of money.
- A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
- A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
- A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
verb
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
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
verb
- To shoot; to fire
- To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
- To give off a spark or sparks.
- To light; to kindle.
noun
- A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Indomalayan genus Sinthusa.
- An electrician.
- A small amount of something, such as an idea or romantic affection, that has the potential to become something greater, just as a spark can start a fire.
- A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.
- A ship's radio operator.
- A short or small burst of electrical discharge.
- A gallant; a foppish young man.
- A beau, lover.
verb
noun
- A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
- The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
- An escapement in which, after each beat, the scape-wheel recoils slightly.
- The state or condition of having recoiled.
verb
- To withdraw or quit in general.
- To stir gently, with a folding action.
- To fall over; to be crushed.
- To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- To give way on a point or in an argument.
- To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
- To become folded; to form folds.
- To withdraw from betting.
- To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
- To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
- To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- To confine animals in a fold.
- Of a company, to cease to trade.
noun
- A group of sheep or goats.
- A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Home, family.
- A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- An act of folding.
- That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
- The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A bend or crease.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
verb
- 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 send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
- To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
verb
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
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