elbow
stand aside
resign
broom
buy a dog and bark oneself
get off
burn out
tag-team
top out
idle
hoe one's row
do
constructive dismissal
all is fish that comes to the net
pirate
send
outplace
quittable
firable
quit
kang
poach
force
engagement
shoo
employment
cheer up
take one's business elsewhere
term
get the bullet
shanghai
sabo
ponce
possible
hand someone their cards
winkle out
give someone their cards
sub in
retrench
hireage
on one's way
give notice
tool
get off the ground
jolly along
put the change on someone
placement
tintack
decruit
reap the harvest
incentive scheme
incentive program
drive away
usurp
make someone's day
de-equitize
golden parachute
hook
stop
offload
employ
make a go of
substitute
give the elbow
difference maker
redundancy
advantage
tip
die
cop off with
hire
decapacitate
hand over
pass through
reearn
parasitic
tai chi
put up to
move out
attrit
reassign
play around
transfer
fire
employer
qualify
secondee
return the favor
yassify
rehiring
work
bed in
service
get out of someone's hair
drudge
salt
discourage
lick someone's boots
quittable
firable
parasitic
constructive dismissal
engagement
employment
possible
hireage
placement
incentive scheme
incentive program
golden parachute
substitute
difference maker
redundancy
hire
attrit
employer
secondee
rehiring
service
drudge
salt
elbow
stand aside
resign
broom
buy a dog and bark oneself
get off
burn out
tag-team
top out
idle
hoe one's row
do
pirate
send
outplace
quit
kang
poach
force
shoo
cheer up
take one's business elsewhere
term
get the bullet
shanghai
sabo
ponce
hand someone their cards
winkle out
give someone their cards
sub in
retrench
give notice
tool
get off the ground
jolly along
put the change on someone
tintack
decruit
reap the harvest
drive away
usurp
make someone's day
de-equitize
hook
stop
offload
employ
make a go of
give the elbow
advantage
tip
die
cop off with
decapacitate
substitute
hand over
pass through
reearn
tai chi
put up to
move out
attrit
reassign
play around
transfer
fire
qualify
return the favor
yassify
work
bed in
get out of someone's hair
discourage
lick someone's boots
verb
- To make someone quit or lose their job so that someone else can get it.
- To nudge, jostle or push.
- To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
noun
- The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
- Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
- Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
- A hit with the elbow.
- Two nearby crossings of a rope.
verb
- to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
- To sweep with a broom.
- To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
noun
- A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
- A shotgun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
verb
- To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
- To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).
- To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).
- To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.
- Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
- To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
- To make (someone) fall asleep.
- To acquire (something) from (someone).
- To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
- To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.
- To kiss; to smooch.
- To (write and) send (something); to discharge.
- To leave one's job, or leave school, as scheduled or with permission.
- To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
- To get high (on a drug).
- To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
- To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.
- To fall asleep.
- To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
- To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
verb
- To end one's shift at a job.
- To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
- To destroy by fire.
- To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
- To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
- To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit.
- To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
- To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
noun
verb
- To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
noun
- An idle game.
- The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
- The state of idling, of being idle.
- An idle animation.
adj
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
verb
- To have as one's job.
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To suffice.
- To finish.
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- To have (as an effect).
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- To take drugs.
- To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To cook.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To make or provide.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- Let’s do New York also.
- To kill.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To impersonate or depict.
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To perform; to execute.
- To cheat or swindle.
noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- A homicide.
- A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- Something that can or should be done.
num
verb
- To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
- To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
- To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
- To engage in piracy.
adj
noun
- A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
- A kind of marble in children's games.
- A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
- One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
verb
- To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
- To care.
- To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
- To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
- To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
- To pitch.
- To bring to a certain condition.
- To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
noun
- An operation in which data is transmitted.
- An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.
- A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
- A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
- A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
verb
- To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- To leave (a place).
- To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
- To close (an application).
- To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- To abandon, renounce (a thing).
noun
adj
verb
- To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To take game or fish illegally.
- To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- To cook something in simmering liquid.
- To be cooked in simmering liquid
- To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
noun
verb
- To compel (someone or something) to do something.
- To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- To violate (a woman); to rape.
- To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
noun
- A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
- The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
- A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
- Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Legal validity.
- Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- Synonym of police force
- Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- A waterfall or cascade.
noun
- the act of giving someone a job
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- a meeting arranged in advance
- a mutual promise to marry
- employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
- contact by fitting together
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group
verb
adj
noun
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Relations among people.
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
- One whose employment has been terminated
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
verb
- To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
- To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
- To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
- To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.
- To hit with a slingshot.
- To transfer a serviceman against their will.
noun
verb
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
- To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
- To equip with tools.
- To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- To work very hard.
- To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
noun
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- A gun.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- An obnoxious or uptight person.
noun
- The act of matching a person with a job
- A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.
- The zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.
- The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
- A location or position.
verb
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To end someone else's activity.
- 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 stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- 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
- to get rid of things, work, or problems by passing them on to someone or something else.
- to deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space.
- to unload.
- to change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).
- to pass the ball.
noun
noun
- The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- The state of being redundant
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language
- Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
verb
- to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
- to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
noun
- Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
- The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
- Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
- Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- To dump (refuse).
- To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome.
- (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- To give, pass.
noun
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- A small piece of meat.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
- A recycling centre.
- A piece of advice.
- Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- A very untidy place.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- A prediction or bet about the outcome of something.
verb
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
verb
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- move from one place to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
- move around
- cause to change ownership
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- send from one person or place to another
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- transfer from one place or period to another
noun
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transferring something from one form to another
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- transferring ownership
verb
- To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
- To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- To forcibly direct (something).
- To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- To drive away by setting a fire.
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- To set off an explosive in a mine.
- To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- To feed or serve the fire of.
- To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- To cause an action potential in a cell.
- To cauterize.
noun
- A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- The elements necessary to start a fire.
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
- The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
adj
verb
- To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To certify or license someone for something.
- To throw and catch each object at least twice.
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
noun
verb
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
noun
- work done by one person or group that benefits another
- an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance
- the act of public worship following prescribed rules
- a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- employment in or work for another
- a force that is a branch of the armed forces
- a means of serving
- tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
- the act of mating by male animals
- (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him
- (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
- the performance of duties by a waiter or servant
verb
noun
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
- A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- A sailor (also old salt).
- Skepticism and common sense.
- Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
verb
- To add salt to.
- To sprinkle throughout.
- To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
adj
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