girdle
engirdle
begirdle
encincture
beknit
hoop
embrace
round
encirclingly
gird
cincture
compass
orb
girt
circumscribe
environ
cottise
fathom
embosom
surround
beclip
encompass
encircling
embound
knurl
wind
articulate
circulize
ring
ring in
boundable
hook
tight
accretionary prism
crenelate
crenellate
impark
ringlet
umbecast
enring
belt
oblique
cauldron
trelliswork
plagio-
becircled
circumferentially
border
inrail
squarelike
zone
skirt
wraparound
concave
envelop
slant
zona
bendly
catch
incisure
pale
fort
fortify
hem
crocketed
boundedly
twine
encincturement
incavity
circumgyrate
twist
ramp
contour
pretzelled
girth
intorsion
enwind
cambré
bow
boundaried
fag out
rail
taut-line hitch
flange
motti
skip
enlacement
engirth
constrainable
cant
wrap
cyrto-
subaduncate
boundable
tight
becircled
squarelike
wraparound
slant
bendly
crocketed
pretzelled
boundaried
constrainable
subaduncate
encirclingly
circumferentially
boundedly
girdle
encircling
cincture
accretionary prism
cauldron
trelliswork
zone
concave
zona
incisure
twine
encincturement
incavity
ramp
intorsion
cambré
taut-line hitch
motti
skip
enlacement
girdle
engirdle
begirdle
encincture
beknit
hoop
embrace
round
gird
cincture
compass
orb
girt
circumscribe
environ
cottise
fathom
embosom
surround
beclip
encompass
embound
knurl
wind
articulate
circulize
ring
ring in
hook
crenelate
crenellate
impark
ringlet
umbecast
enring
belt
oblique
border
inrail
skirt
envelop
catch
pale
fort
fortify
hem
circumgyrate
twist
contour
girth
enwind
bow
fag out
rail
flange
engirth
cant
wrap
verb
- To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
- To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
noun
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- The zodiac; also, the equator.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
verb
noun
- The hoopoe.
- A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
- A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
- A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
- A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
- A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
- The game of basketball.
- The rim part of a basketball net.
- A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- A jockey.
- A hoop earring.
- An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
- A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
verb
- To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.
- To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
- To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.
- To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
- To submit to; to undergo.
noun
verb
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- To shape something into a curve.
- To turn past a boundary.
- To advance to home plate.
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- To do ward rounds.
- To become shaped into a curve.
- To finish; to complete; to fill out.
noun
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A stage in a competition.
- A stage or level of a game.
- The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- The play after each deal.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
adj
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Large in magnitude.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Plump.
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- Vaulted.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- An orbit of an heavenly body
- Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- A sphere of action.
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- A blank window or panel.
- A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
- One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- The time period of an orbit
- A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
- The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
verb
- To encircle or surround (someone or something).
- To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
- Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
- To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
- Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
- Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
noun
verb
- To encircle (someone or something) with outstretched arms; specifically, to measure the circumference or (rare) length of something.
- To measure a depth; to sound.
- To conduct an examination or inquiry; to investigate.
- To measure the depth of (water); to take a sounding of; to sound.
- Often followed by out: to deeply understand (someone or something); to get to the bottom of.
noun
- Originally, the distance between an adult man's arms stretched out away from the sides of his torso so that they make a straight line perpendicular to his body, measured from the tips of the longest fingers of each hand, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres); subsequently used as a unit for water depth but now generally replaced by the metre.
- Depth of insight; mental reach or scope.
- An unspecified depth.
verb
verb
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
noun
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
verb
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- To make clear or effective.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- to form a joint or connect by joints
- to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- To enclose or surround.
- To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- To telephone (someone).
- To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- to resound, reverberate, echo.
- Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- To produce music with bells.
- To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- To rise in the air spirally.
noun
- A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A pleasant or correct sound.
- An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- A telephone call.
- A burner on a kitchen stove.
- An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
verb
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- 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 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.
noun
- 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.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- 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.
adj
adv
adj
- pulled or drawn tight
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
- pressed tightly together
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow
- of textiles
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- very drunk
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
- packed closely together
verb
verb
- To encircle.
- To fasten a belt on.
- To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- To hit with a belt.
- To scream or sing in a loud manner.
- To move very fast.
- To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- To hit someone or something.
- To drink quickly, often in gulps.
noun
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
- One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
- A quick drink of liquor.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
verb
- To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew;
- To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
- To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
adj
- Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- Not straightforward; obscure or confusing.
- Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
noun
prefix
adj
noun
- (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
- a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
- any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
- an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
verb
adj
- That extends around a corner or bend.
- Designed to be wrapped around the body and tied.
- Serving to surround or bookend something else.
noun
- Word wrap, the word processing feature that moves text on to the next line if it will not fit on the current one.
- A label or advertising display that wraps around a container.
- An extension to a property that combines side and rear extensions.
- The wrapping of numerical value in case of underflow or overflow.
- A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person.
- A garment that is wrapped around the body and tied.
- Synonym of wraparound mortgage
noun
- A concave surface or curve.
- A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
- An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
- An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- The vault of the sky.
- An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
verb
adj
adj
noun
- A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
- A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
- A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
- A point of view, an angle.
- A look, a glance.
- An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
- A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
- A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
- A sloped surface or line.
- A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
- A slope; an incline, inclination.
- A sloping surface in a culture medium.
- Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
- An oblique movement or course.
verb
verb
- To grip or entangle.
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
- To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- To turn pale; to lose colour.
- To become insignificant.
adj
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
- Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
noun
verb
- To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
- To make a hem.
- To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
intj
noun
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- A rim or margin of something.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
noun
- The act of twining or winding round.
- A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
- Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
- A twist; a convolution.
verb
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- To weave together.
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
verb
- To be formed into a bent or curved shape (around something).
- To make circuits (around an area or space).
- To move around something.
- To turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
- To cause to move around something; to cause to orbit.
- To form into a bent or curved shape.
- To cause to turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
verb
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
noun
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
noun
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
- A scale of values.
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron).
- A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- An act of violent robbery.
- An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
- A worthless person.
- A speed bump.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- A promiscuous man or woman.
- A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
- A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
verb
verb
- To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
- To mark with contour lines.
- To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
noun
- a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- A general description giving the most important points.
verb
noun
- One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
- A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
- The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
- The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
- A small horizontal brace or girder.
- The distance measured around an object.
verb
- To make something bend or curve.
- To become bent or curved.
- To defer (to something).
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To debut.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
verb
- To enclose with rails or a railing.
- To range in a line.
- To place on a track.
- To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- To travel by railway.
- To complain violently (against, about).
noun
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- A vertical section on one side of a web page.
verb
- To be bent into a flange.
- To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
- To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.
noun
- The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
- The vulva.
- The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
- An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
- The collective noun for a group of baboons.
- An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
noun
- A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
- A college servant.
- A skip car.
- The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- A charge of syrup in the pans.
- A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- skywave propagation
- The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
- The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- A beehive.
- A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
verb
- To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
- To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To leap about lightly.
- Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- To jump rope.
- To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- To leap lightly over.
verb
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To set (something) at an angle.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
adj
noun
- An outer or external angle.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A corner (of a building).
- A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A parcel, a division.
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
verb
- To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
- To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
- To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
- To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
noun
- A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
- A wraparound mortgage.
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
- The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
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