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verb
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- To appear positive and highly respected.
- 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
verb
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
noun
verb
adj
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- lacking obstructions or difficulties
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
adj
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
noun
verb
- make (a surface) shine
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
- emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- be shiny, as if wet
- be distinguished or eminent
- be clear and obvious
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
noun
verb
adj
noun
adj
- made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
- having strong or striking color
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- having lots of light either natural or artificial
- splendid
- clear and sharp and ringing
- characterized by happiness or gladness
- likely to turn out well in the future
adj
adv
verb
- To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
- To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- To ring or sound with many echos.
- To rebound or recoil.
- To have a lasting effect.
- To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- To repeatedly return.
- To fuse by reverberated heat.
adj
verb
- give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
- provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
- provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
noun
- the property of being smooth and shiny
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
verb
adj
- Sharp, clearly defined.
- Brief and to the point.
- having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
- Quick and accurate.
- Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- Dry and cold.
- Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
noun
verb
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- 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 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
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
noun
- Shine, polish or sparkle.
- Refinement, polish or quality.
- Lusterware.
- One who lusts or is inflamed with lust.
- A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
- A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
- A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
- Brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
verb
verb
- To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- 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 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
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- Lengths of fine wire, silver, gold, silk or whalebone wrapped tightly around the bow stick adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel of the bow.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
verb
- To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating; to wax.
- To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.
- To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.
- To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.
- To paste into place using wax.
- To taper off; to gradually quiet or diminish.
- To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.
verb
- To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
- To have the front in a certain direction.
- To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.
- To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- To have as an opponent.
- To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- To be the batsman on strike.
- To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
noun
- A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
- The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- The mouth.
- The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
- One's facial expression.
- A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- The front surface of a bat.
- The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- The frontal aspect of something.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
- The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- Public image; outward appearance.
- Presence; sight; front.
- An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- The directed force of something.
- Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A typeface.
- A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
verb
- To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
- To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- To take a greater size; to increase in size.
- To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
noun
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
- A number of edges in a graph.
- Wallpaper paste.
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
verb
- To produce a rippled texture on a surface.
- To play a washboard.
- To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax.
noun
- A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road caused by interaction between traffic and road surface.
- A board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard.
- Such a board used as a simple percussion instrument.
- A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed.
verb
- To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
- To acquire a silvery colour.
- To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
- To make hoary, or white, like silver.
adj
- Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
- Premium, but inferior to gold.
- Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
- Made from silver.
- Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
- Made from another white metal.
noun
- Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
- A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
- a silver medal
- Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
- Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
- A shiny gray color.
- Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
verb
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To become contaminated or impure.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
adj
- Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Soiled with feces.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
noun
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 card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- 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.
verb
- To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
- To supply with heavenly grace.
- To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
- To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
noun
- A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
- An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
- Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.
- In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
- A grace note.
- Charming, pleasing qualities.
- Elegant movement; balance or poise.
- An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.
verb
adj
- Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
- Sleek; smooth.
- Extraordinarily great or special.
- Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
- Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
- Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
noun
- A tool used to make something smooth or even.
- A helicopter.
- A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
- A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
- In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
- Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
- A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
- A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
verb
- To apply paint to.
- To create (an image) with paints.
- To direct a radar beam toward.
- To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
- To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
- To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- To depict or portray.
- To practise the art of painting pictures.
- To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
- To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
noun
- Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
- A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
- The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
- Paintballs.
- Tattoo work.
- The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
- Makeup.
- A face card (king, queen, or jack).
verb
adj
noun
- A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
- A brindled cat.
- A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
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