nap
crash
shagreen
frot
lineny
crimp
Utrecht velvet
rusticated
cotton
rusticate
burnish
hurden
leather working
egg-crating
vulcanized fiber
fiber
raft
fibre
grindery
bloom
leatherette
woodturning
pebbling
leatherize
silklike
spill
clothify
chagrin
tool
rumple
tanning
lawn
grain
rugose
fur
slush
linenlike
surfacing
line
patina
emborder
onlay
asperity
befringe
water
leatherwork
drakeskin
cowl
ruffle
ajouré
drape
eggcrate
lichenify
grogram
draping
wiping cloth
frill
cleaning cloth
leathermaking
frottage
graining
gambroon
shiny
glazed
wool
dressing
smear
distain
enlard
beflake
strap
flint
teaser
neshen
doily
dub
tweedy
linsey-woolsey
pebble-grained
seton
maril
frost
leathercloth
tozy
pseudoleather
inset
pannose
Italian iron
leathery
patch
texture
gusset
surface
skiver
lineny
rusticated
silklike
rugose
linenlike
shiny
glazed
tweedy
pebble-grained
tozy
pannose
leathery
nap
crash
Utrecht velvet
hurden
leather working
egg-crating
vulcanized fiber
fiber
raft
fibre
grindery
bloom
leatherette
woodturning
pebbling
chagrin
tanning
lawn
slush
surfacing
patina
asperity
water
leatherwork
drakeskin
ruffle
ajouré
eggcrate
grogram
draping
wiping cloth
frill
cleaning cloth
leathermaking
graining
gambroon
wool
dressing
strap
teaser
doily
linsey-woolsey
seton
maril
leathercloth
pseudoleather
grain
inset
Italian iron
patch
gusset
skiver
nap
shagreen
frot
crimp
cotton
rusticate
burnish
leatherize
spill
clothify
tool
rumple
grain
fur
line
emborder
onlay
befringe
cowl
drape
lichenify
frottage
smear
distain
enlard
beflake
flint
neshen
dub
frost
texture
surface
verb
- To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
- To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
- To be off one's guard.
- To cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive)
noun
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A cup, bowl.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
noun
- A type of rough linen.
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- A group of rhinoceroses.
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A comedown from a drug.
adj
verb
- To hit or strike with force
- To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
- To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- To give, as a favor.
- To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
- To terminate extraordinarily.
- To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
- To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
- To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
verb
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- to hold using a crimp
- 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.
verb
- To rub or burnish with cotton.
- To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
- To develop a porous, cottony texture.
- To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
- To provide with cotton.
- To cover walls with fabric.
- To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
- To supply with a cotton wick.
- To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
- To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
- To fill with a wad of cotton.
- To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
- To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
noun
- Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.
- An item of clothing made from cotton.
- Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
- Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
- The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
adj
verb
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- To appear positive and highly respected.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
noun
noun
- a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
- a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
- any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
noun
- Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
- A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
- A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
- A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
- A slice of toast.
- A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
- A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
- A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
verb
noun
- a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
- a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
noun
- A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
- Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
- Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
- The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
- A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
- The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
- A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
- Flowers.
- A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
- An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
- The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
- The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
- The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
verb
- To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
- Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
verb
verb
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To come undone.
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- A mess of something that has been dropped.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
verb
- To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- To equip with tools.
- To work very hard.
- To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
noun
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- A gun.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- An obnoxious or uptight person.
noun
- A type of thin linen or cotton.
- Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
- An open space between woods.
- Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
verb
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- To soften leather.
- To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- To feed grain to.
- To make granular; to form into grains.
- To yield fruit.
- To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
- Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- A single particle of a substance.
- The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- A single seed of grass food crops.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
- A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- The crops from which grain is harvested.
- A linear texture of a material or surface.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
adj
- Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved.
- Rugged, rough, unrefined.
- Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
- Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
- Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
verb
- To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
- To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
- To level a surface by applying furring to it.
noun
- The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
- The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
- Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
- The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans.
- Pubic hair.
- A thick pile of fabric.
- The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
- Sexual attractiveness.
- A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
- The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
- A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
- One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures.
noun
- A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
- Liquid mud or mire.
- Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
- Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
- A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
- Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
- The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
verb
verb
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
noun
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
noun
- The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
- The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
- An area that protrudes from a surface.
- A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.
- The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
- Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
noun
- A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
- The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
- A serving of liquid water.
- A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
- Urine.
- The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
- Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. (Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America.)
- Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
- Water in a body; an area of open water.
- A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
- A person's intuition.
- The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
- Spa water.
- Mineral water.
verb
- To dilute.
- To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
- To urinate onto.
- To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
- To fill with or secrete water.
- To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
- To get or take in water.
- To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
noun
verb
- To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
- To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
- To scrape together
- To make a monk of (a person).
noun
- A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
- A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
- A mask that covers the majority of the head.
- A monk.
- A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
- A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
- A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
- A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
noun
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
verb
- To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
noun
- A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
- A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
- A wrinkled edge to a film.
- Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
- The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
verb
noun
- A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
- A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace.
- The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
- The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
- Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
noun
- Anything with a texture like that of wool.
- The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
- Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
- A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
- A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
- A resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
noun
- processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
- savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type
- a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
- making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
- a cloth covering for a wound or sore
- the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
- the act of applying a bandage
verb
- To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
- To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- To make something dirty.
- To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
noun
- A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- A mark made by smearing.
- A rough glissando in jazz music.
- A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
noun
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Synonym of strapline
- A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
- A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
verb
verb
noun
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- Anything figuratively hard.
verb
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To do something badly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
noun
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A pool or puddle.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
noun
- A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
verb
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
noun
- The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
- A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
- One who uses a skive (or skives).
- An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
- A slacker.
- A skewer.
verb
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