scoop
holk
excavate
groin
undermine
cave
hollow out
inditch
dish out
scoop out
incavated
hollowly
furrow
rut
groove
incavation
exhume
balk
hole
unbury
stock up
spall
riddle
cove
carve out
bore
dumple
bowl
hole up
flitter
overhollow
dyke
entrench
excavation
dig out
pit
semihollow
fritter
shallow
cavern out
ditch
fragmentize
set
cavern
paw
grobble
lapse
hill
spuddle
delve
neap
unearth
hollow
break up
enmire
tuft
piggle
trench
chine
flange
clamshell
disinhume
spill
spring
undig
borehole
coelo-
uneven
grub
hollowness
make a hole
soak away
voiden
blank
suffossion
squdge
busticate
inhumate
moult
biff
exhumation
moss-hag
dismantle
embrittle
socket
relax
crumbly
carve up
incavated
semihollow
crumbly
hollowly
incavation
bowl
excavation
scoop
riddle
hollowness
suffossion
exhumation
moss-hag
socket
scoop
holk
excavate
groin
undermine
cave
hollow out
inditch
dish out
scoop out
furrow
rut
groove
exhume
balk
hole
unbury
stock up
spall
riddle
cove
carve out
bore
dumple
hole up
flitter
overhollow
dyke
entrench
dig out
pit
fritter
shallow
cavern out
ditch
fragmentize
set
cavern
paw
grobble
lapse
hill
spuddle
delve
neap
unearth
hollow
break up
enmire
tuft
piggle
trench
chine
flange
clamshell
disinhume
spill
spring
undig
borehole
uneven
grub
make a hole
soak away
voiden
blank
squdge
busticate
inhumate
moult
biff
dismantle
embrittle
relax
carve up
verb
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To pick (someone) up
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
noun
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- The raised end of a surfboard.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The peak of a cap.
- A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To make holes in (an object or surface).
- To go into a hole.
- To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- To destroy.
noun
- An undesirable place to live or visit.
- A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- A container or receptacle.
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- Sex, or a sex partner.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
- A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
verb
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
noun
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
verb
- To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
- To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
noun
- A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
- A friend; a mate.
verb
- To make a hole through something.
- simple past tense of bear
- To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- To inspire boredom in somebody.
- simple past tense of bare
noun
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- The place where such a well exists.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
noun
- The round hollow part of anything.
- A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- The action of bowling a ball.
- An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- The game of bowls.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
verb
verb
- To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- To scour a watercourse.
- To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
noun
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
verb
- To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
- To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
- To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
noun
- The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
- Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
- Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
- A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
verb
- To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
- To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
- To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
- To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
- To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
noun
- A mine.
- A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
- The bottom part of something.
- Armpit.
- A mosh pit.
- Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
- An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
- A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
- A bed.
- A luggage hold.
- A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
- A hole in the ground.
- The emergency department.
- The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
- A pit bull terrier.
- A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
- An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
- Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
- A trading pit.
- A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- The center of the line.
- Only used in the pits.
- The grave, underworld or Hell.
- The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
adj
verb
- To break into small pieces or fragments.
- To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- To sinter.
- To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
noun
verb
adj
- Not steep; close to horizontal.
- Not far forward, close to the net.
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- Extending not far downward.
- Lacking interest or substance.
noun
verb
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- 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 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 rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- 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.
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 become void.
- To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- To fall into error or heresy.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
noun
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A fall or apostasy.
- An interval of time between events.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- memory lapse
verb
noun
verb
- to ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail
- To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
adj
- Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
- Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.
noun
verb
noun
- A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
- A sunken area.
- A small valley between mountains.
- A feeling of emptiness.
adj
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- Pertaining to hollow body position
- Having an empty space or cavity inside.
adv
verb
- To dissolve; to part.
- To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- To break or separate into pieces.
- Become disorganised
- Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- be or cause to be overcome with laughter
- To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness.
verb
- To form into tufts.
- To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
- To be formed into tufts.
- To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
noun
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
verb
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
noun
verb
- To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
noun
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
- A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
verb
- To be bent into a flange.
- To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
- To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.
noun
- The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
- The vulva.
- The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
- An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
- The collective noun for a group of baboons.
- An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
verb
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
- To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with take-out food.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
verb
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To come undone.
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- A mess of something that has been dropped.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
verb
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
noun
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
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verb
verb
- To make void; to erase.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- To become blank.
- To be temporarily unable to remember.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
adj
- Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
noun
- Infertile semen.
- A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
- Blank verse .
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
- A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
verb
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