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verb
- To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- To form a border around; to bound.
- To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- To put a border on something.
- To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
noun
- A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- The outer edge of something.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
verb
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- provide with a border or edge
- advance slowly, as if by inches
- provide with an edge
noun
- the boundary of a surface
- a line determining the limits of an area
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
- a slight competitive advantage
- the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
verb
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- place end to end without overlapping
noun
- thick end of the handle
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
verb
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
verb
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
adv
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
verb
- To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- To settle, as machinery.
- To go to bed.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- To place in a bed.
- To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- To put oneself to sleep.
- To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
noun
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- Marriage.
- The taut surface of a trampoline.
- Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- Sexual activity.
- A garden plot.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- Time spent in a bed.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- One's place of sleep or rest.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
verb
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- a line determining the limits of an area
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- the greatest possible degree of something
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
- confined by bonds
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
adj
verb
- To be on or form the border of.
- To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
- To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
- To cover with a skirt; to surround.
noun
- An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
- The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
- Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
- The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals
- A petticoat.
- Women collectively, in a sexual context.
- A woman.
- Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- A loose edging to any part of a dress.
adj
- Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- Written in the margin of a book.
- Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- Barely productive.
- Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
noun
verb
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
adj
verb
- To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
- To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
adj
noun
- Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The far end of somewhere.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- The buttocks or anus.
- Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
- Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- An abyss.
- The lowest part of anything.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The lowest part of a container.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
verb
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- 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 fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
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.
prefix
- To or on the other side of, beyond; outside of.
- A compound in which two atoms or groups are situated on opposite sides of some plane of symmetry passing through the compound. (Also used without the hyphen as an adjective; see trans.)
- Extending across, through, or over.
- Transgender or transsexual, or pertaining to those who are transgender or transsexual.
verb
noun
- The edge or border of any flat surface.
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
- The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- margin of victory
- That which is ancillary; periphery.
- The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
- The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
- Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
verb
verb
- lie moored or anchored
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
- continue undisturbed and without interference
- move like a floating object
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- be sustained or supported or borne
- have certain properties when driven
- be contingent on
- sit on and control a vehicle
- climb up on the body
- ride over, along, or through
- keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
- copulate with
noun
adj
- Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
- Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
- Blowing (as wind) from the east.
- From the East; oriental.
- Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.
noun
- One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox.
- The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
adv
verb
verb
- To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- To become effective; to come into effect.
- To go or come into (a state or profession).
- To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
- To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
- To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
- To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
- To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
- To type (something) into a computer; to input.
- To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
noun
- A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything.
- The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
- The act of indenting or state of being indented.
- A measure of the distance from the flush line.
- A division unit of a piece of law distinguished by its indentation or by a dash.
- A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
- A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
- A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
verb
verb
noun
adj
- (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
- Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
noun
- A fringe or border.
- Something precious.
- A light-colored tern.
- A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
- Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
- One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
- A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
- The clitoris.
verb
- To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
- To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
- To resemble pearl or pearls.
- To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
- To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
- Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
- To hunt for pearls
noun
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
verb
noun
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