nick
notch
nickable
claut
rat
rit
scrattle
claw
mattock
scrab
nicking
snip
scram
chip
prod
scart
scramb
snick
knock over
point
snippet
indent
rag
sciss
sharpen
slip
boke
chopped
scarify
clour
rap
nip
betrench
scotch
snig
dinge
prick
prickle
rapier
outcrack
switchbladed
cutesification
hack
nip at
skitter
spiculate
knock out
sharpness
snithe
hacksaw
tender
serrate
scrabble
snithy
nerf
tipsify
sectile
foozle
cuttingly
fooster
flitch
stump
hatchet
no matter how one slices it
detruncate
scale off
whichever way one slices it
splatter
detrench
however one slices it
bleeder
beat into a cocked hat
spelch
toe-dip
goose
keen
overstrew
skimp
scissor
tutu
sliceable
grade
rip
cheesepare
chase
machete
sliceability
crosscut
beclaw
nickable
chopped
rapier
switchbladed
snithe
tender
snithy
sectile
keen
sliceable
cuttingly
nicking
slip
nip
nick
notch
snick
cutesification
sharpness
bleeder
grade
snip
sliceability
nick
notch
claut
rat
rit
scrattle
claw
mattock
scrab
snip
scram
chip
prod
scart
scramb
snick
knock over
point
snippet
indent
rag
sciss
sharpen
boke
scarify
clour
rap
betrench
scotch
snig
dinge
prick
prickle
outcrack
hack
nip at
skitter
spiculate
knock out
hacksaw
serrate
scrabble
nerf
tipsify
foozle
fooster
flitch
stump
snithe
hatchet
detruncate
scale off
splatter
detrench
beat into a cocked hat
spelch
toe-dip
goose
overstrew
skimp
scissor
tutu
rip
cheesepare
chase
machete
crosscut
beclaw
verb
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
noun
- The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
- A police station or prison.
- A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
verb
- To scratch or score.
- To kill rats.
- Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.
- To betray a person or party, especially by telling their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in.
- To work as a scab, going against trade union policies.
noun
- Vagina.
- Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
- A scratch or a score.
- A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.
- A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
- A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
- A ration.
- A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
- A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
- A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
- A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
- An informant or snitch.
verb
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- To circumcise.
noun
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- A vasectomy.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
verb
- To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- To leave in a hurry; to go away.
- To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
noun
verb
- cut a nick into
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- play a chip shot
- form by chipping
- break a small piece off from
noun
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- the act of chipping something
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- To be cut, notched, or dented.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
noun
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
verb
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- To dance to ragtime music.
- To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- To become tattered.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
noun
- A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- A curtain of various kinds.
- A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- Tattered clothes.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
noun
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- A fish, the sole.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A slipway.
- A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A slipdress.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- A mistake or error.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- An outside covering or case.
- A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
verb
- To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- To move down; to slide.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
- To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- To err.
- To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
verb
- To make scratches or cuts on.
- To harrow the feelings.
- To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
- To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
- To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
- To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
verb
- To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
- To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
- To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
- To seize and carry off.
- To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
- To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
- To utter quickly and sharply.
noun
- A whit; a jot.
- A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
- An appraisal.
- Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
- A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
- A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
- Rap music.
- A sharp blow with something hard.
- A casual talk.
- Blame for something.
- A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
noun
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A hamburger.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A playful bite.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A short turn in a rope.
- The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
verb
- To squeeze or pinch.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To taunt.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
verb
- To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- To rape.
- To prevent (something) from being successful.
- To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
- To block a wheel or other round object.
noun
verb
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
noun
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
- To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.
- To cause to have diarrhea.
- To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
- To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
noun
verb
- To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- To put to sleep.
- To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
- To exhaust.
- To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- To communicate (a message) by knocking.
adj
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
verb
- offer or present for acceptance
- propose a payment
- make a tender of; in legal settlements
- make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
adj
verb
verb
- To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- To get a batsman out stumped.
- To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- To campaign.
noun
- One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- A leg.
- An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
verb
noun
- Synonym of scratch hit
- A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
- A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
- A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
- A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
- Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
verb
- To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks of (a person).
- To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
- To stimulate; to spur.
- Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
- To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
noun
- Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
- An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
- The flesh of the goose used as food.
- A silly person.
- A female goose (sense 1).
verb
- To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
- To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
- To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
- To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
- To excise or expunge something from a text.
noun
noun
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A rating.
- A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- A level of primary and secondary education.
- A gradian.
- An eyeglass prescription.
- The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- The level of the ground.
- A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
verb
- To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To pass from one school grade into the next.
- To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- To organize in grades.
verb
- To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- To steal; to rip off.
- To fart.
- To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- To surf extremely well.
- To take a "hit" of marijuana.
- To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- To move quickly and destructively.
- To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
noun
- A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- A type of strong, rough tide or current.
- Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- A handful of unthreshed grain.
- A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- A wicker basket for fish.
- A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- A joyride.
verb
- To cut (the thread of a screw).
- To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- To follow at speed.
- To seek to attain.
- To hunt.
- To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
- To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
- To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- To groove; indent.
- To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
noun
- A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
- One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- The cavity of a mold.
- A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
- A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- A children's game where one player chases another.
- A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
verb
noun
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
English words for 'To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.'
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