overlinger
outlinger
outstay
overstay
hang about
hang around
overkeep
drag on
overstand
stick around
overrun
overleave
cunctatious
outsit
go
hyperpersist
outlast
chronic
hove
continuing
MIA
long-lasting
outlive
gather dust
overlive
outsurvive
detain
truck
hover
hold tack
make old bones
twist in the wind
overwait
languor
stand up
attend
stout
keep off
abiding
abode
imperishable
enduring
eudemic
lingeringly
restick
perduringly
perpetual
stick fat
stick
linger
hold on
inveterately
at length
long-span
sweat it out
outkeep
longwhiles
ketch
stand down
sit out
stay the distance
mark time
aeonian
hold out
stall out
durative
everlast
unceasing
until the cows come home
rot
stick out
eternal
outwear
until the cows freeze over
everlasting
carry through
eonian
absent
ageless
stop
hang fire
unending
remove
extended
soldier on
set by
not leave one's thoughts
long
protracted
last
keep up
survive
won
stay
cunctatious
chronic
continuing
MIA
long-lasting
abiding
imperishable
enduring
eudemic
perpetual
long-span
aeonian
durative
unceasing
eternal
everlasting
eonian
ageless
unending
extended
protracted
lingeringly
perduringly
inveterately
longwhiles
long
overstay
abode
overlinger
outlinger
outstay
overstay
hang about
hang around
overkeep
drag on
overstand
stick around
overrun
overleave
outsit
go
hyperpersist
outlast
hove
outlive
gather dust
overlive
outsurvive
detain
truck
hover
hold tack
make old bones
twist in the wind
overwait
languor
stand up
attend
stout
keep off
restick
stick fat
stick
linger
hold on
sweat it out
outkeep
ketch
stand down
sit out
stay the distance
mark time
hold out
stall out
everlast
rot
stick out
outwear
carry through
absent
stop
hang fire
remove
soldier on
set by
not leave one's thoughts
last
keep up
survive
won
stay
verb
verb
verb
- To be neglected and left uncut for too long.
- to stand or insist too much or too long; overstay
- to sail to the mark at a wider angle than is the normal upwind angle, to go beyond the layline
- to stand too strictly on the demands or conditions of.
- to have complete or intuitive comprehension of; to understand fully
noun
verb
- To continue for too long.
- To run past; to run beyond.
- To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- To run past the end of.
- To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
noun
verb
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To persist, to endure.
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- To travel, to proceed.
- To trade, exchange; barter.
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To drive a truck.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To convey by truck.
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
noun
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
verb
- Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- To remain stationary or float in the air.
- To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
- Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
- To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
noun
- An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
- A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
- A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
- An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
verb
verb
noun
- A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.
- Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
- Listless indolence or inactivity, especially if enjoyable or relaxing; dreaminess; (countable) an instance of this.
- Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.
- Melancholy caused by lovesickness, sadness, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
- To last or endure over a period of time.
- To bring something up and set it into a standing position.
- To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- To launch, propel upwards
- (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- to make one's voice heard, to speak up
- To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
verb
- To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
- To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.
- To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; to regularly go to (an event or place).
- To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).
- To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after.
- To go to (a place) for some purpose (with at).
verb
- To persist.
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
adj
noun
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
verb
- To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
- To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
- To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.
adv
prep_phrase
verb
- To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
- To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- To decline in function or utility.
- To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
noun
verb
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- To close or block an opening.
- Not to continue.
noun
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
punct
verb
- stay away or leave
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- cause to leave
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
noun
verb
adv
noun
- An entity with a long position in an asset.
- A long-term investment.
- A long vowel.
- A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- A long syllable.
verb
adj
- Not short; tall.
- Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring or tedious or tiring.
- Having great duration.
- Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location, as weapons fire or landing aircraft.
- Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).
verb
- To endure, continue over time.
- To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
noun
- A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
det
- The (one) immediately before the present.
- Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
adv
adj
verb
- To live longer than; to outlive.
- Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
- Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
- To live past a life-threatening event.
- To be a victim of usually non-fatal harm, to honor and empower the strength of an individual to heal, in particular a living victim of sexual abuse or assault.
- Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
verb
- stay put (in a certain place)
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- dwell
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- remain behind
- stop or halt
- stay behind
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- stop a judicial process
- fasten with stays
- overcome or allay
noun
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
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