plait
plicate
pleat
double up
plication
doubling
clive
dirempt
turn back
wimple
lap
befold
fold
fold up
tautly
plicature
tuck
twosome
folding
ruck
separate
divide
fanfold
twofoldly
entwin
dividedly
doubly
twin
diphy-
in two ways
abridgedly
reflection
bifold
cordately
dioptrate
crimp
interfold
dumple
dually
bifarious
confurcate
pleadingly
swedge
biformity
shortened
telescoped
refold
stoop
semiroundly
profound
cloven
stringently
strictly
duplication
buckle
separatedly
carve up
shake
crumple
pleatable
plical
tritely
interrupt
dividuous
unplat
segmentation
partition
fluting
sectionalization
division
slit
partitioning
sectionalisation
beclip
split
crossed
cleavage
slotten
pleating
unsnib
dissever
deftly
double
triternately
divisioning
bisection
twosome
bifold
dioptrate
bifarious
shortened
telescoped
profound
cloven
pleatable
plical
dividuous
split
crossed
slotten
tautly
twofoldly
dividedly
doubly
in two ways
abridgedly
cordately
dually
pleadingly
semiroundly
stringently
strictly
separatedly
tritely
deftly
triternately
plait
plication
doubling
wimple
fold
plicature
tuck
folding
reflection
biformity
duplication
segmentation
partition
fluting
sectionalization
division
partitioning
sectionalisation
cleavage
pleating
divisioning
bisection
plait
plicate
pleat
double up
clive
dirempt
turn back
lap
befold
fold
fold up
ruck
separate
divide
fanfold
entwin
twin
crimp
interfold
dumple
confurcate
swedge
refold
stoop
buckle
carve up
shake
crumple
interrupt
unplat
slit
beclip
unsnib
dissever
double
verb
verb
- To bend, bend over; to fold; to stoop.
- To employ double the usual resources for a particular purpose.
- To double one's amount of chips by winning an all-in pot.
- To have a secondary use.
- To double the quantity, amount or duration of something
- To get the second out in a double play, typically referring to getting an out by beating a runner back to a base (often by throwing) after a fly ball has been caught
verb
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
adv
noun
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- The beat of a drum.
- A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- A curled position.
- A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
verb
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- To eat; to consume.
- To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To full, as cloth.
- To fit neatly.
noun
- The action of folding; a fold.
- the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
- Paper money, as opposed to coins.
- The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
- Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
adj
verb
- To become folded.
- To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
- To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
- To crease or fold.
noun
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
- A small heifer.
- An argument or fight.
- The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
verb
- make a division or separation
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- force, take, or pull apart
- mark as different
- separate into parts or portions
- divide into components or constituents
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- move or break apart
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
adj
adj
verb
verb
- To separate, divide.
- To split, part; to go away, depart.
- To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
- To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
- To give birth to twins.
- To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
adj
noun
- A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- A twin crystal.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- A two-engine aircraft.
- Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
prefix
noun
- The folding of a part; a fold.
- The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
- The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
- Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
- The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
- Careful thought or consideration.
- An implied criticism.
adj
noun
- A wallet, billfold, or carrying case with a single fold, so that it opens like a book.
- A door, window, shutter, or divider consisting of two equal panels hinged together so that it opens by folding the panels against each other.
- A sheet of paper or cardboard folded in half along a crease down the center.
- A crease or turn that causes something to double back on itself.
verb
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
noun
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
noun
verb
verb
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- To cause to submit; to prostrate.
noun
- The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
adj
- Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive
- Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough
- Very deep; very serious
- Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading
- Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
verb
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- To dance.
- To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- To threaten to overthrow.
- To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- To shake hands.
- To move from side to side.
- To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
noun
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- A milkshake.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shock or disturbance.
- In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- A thin shingle.
noun
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
verb
noun
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the act or process of dividing
- an administrative unit in government or business
- discord that splits a group
- a league ranked by quality
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a group of ships of similar type
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
adj
- Divided.
- Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
- Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
noun
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
- A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- A split-finger fastball.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
verb
- To factor into linear factors.
- To separate.
- To leave.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- To share; to divide.
- To burst out laughing.
- To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
noun
adj
verb
- To fold over so as to make two folds.
- To get a two-base hit.
- To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
- To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- To operate as a double agent.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- To double down.
- To multiply by two.
- (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
noun
- The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- A two-base hit.
- A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A double-precision floating-point number.
- A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A double feast.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- A hit on this ring.
- A boat for two scullers.
- The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
adv
adj
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Designed for two users.
- Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
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