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verb
- To tighten down.
- To bring to certain conclusion.
- In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
noun
- Something that is very easy to do.
- A firm hold.
- A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
- A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
- Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
verb
- To make less tight, to loosen.
- Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- To shoot (an arrow).
- To let loose, to free from restraints.
- To unfasten, to loosen.
intj
noun
- All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
- The release of an arrow.
- A letting go; discharge.
- Freedom from restraint.
adj
- Not compact.
- Not fitting closely
- Relaxed.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Having oversteer.
verb
- To get narrower.
- To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
adj
- Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
noun
verb
verb
verb
- To pull tight.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
adj
verb
verb
adj
- tight-fitting
- thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)
- Having reduced fat or calories.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To tighten (a belaying rope). (Also take up.)
- To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
- To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
- To enjoy or appreciate.
- To deceive; to hoodwink.
- To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
- To absorb or comprehend.
- To attend a showing of.
- To reef.
adj
verb
verb
- To become fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- To fasten with a lock.
- To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- To play in the position of lock.
- To intertwine or dovetail.
- To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
noun
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- Complete control over a situation.
- The firing mechanism.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
verb
- To grip tightly.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To strike with the hand.
- to grab or take stealthily
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
noun
- A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- A newspaper clipping.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- The condition of something, its state.
- A removable magazine of a firearm.
- A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
verb
- To compress, squeeze.
- To hasten, urge onward.
- To lay stress upon.
- To throng, crowd.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- To urge, beseech, entreat.
- To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
noun
- A printing machine.
- Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A publisher.
- The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- A device used to apply pressure to an item.
adj
adv
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- be agitated or irritated
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- cause annoyance in
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- carve a pattern into
- decorate with an interlaced design
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- wear away or erode
noun
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- become or cause to become obstructed
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- reduce the air supply
- cause to retch or choke
noun
verb
- To fit into a tight place.
- To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
noun
- The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- An instance of squeezing.
- A close or tight fit.
- The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- A difficult position.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A romantic partner.
- A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
verb
- To make heavier.
- To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
- To sadden.
adv
adj
- Having high viscosity.
- Laden to a great extent.
- Serious, somber.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- especially, having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- High, great.
- Armed.
- Heavily-armed.
- Having great weight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- Having the heaves.
- Having much body or strength.
- High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Loud, distorted, or intense.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- Hot and humid.
- With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload,
noun
verb
noun
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.
verb
- To soften; to mitigate.
- To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- to retract.
- To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
noun
- The drug dextromethorphan.
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- Money acquired by gambling.
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- A female chinchilla; a sow.
adj
verb
verb
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- squeeze or press together
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- engage by written agreement
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- become smaller or draw together
- make smaller
- compress or concentrate
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
noun
verb
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- have sexual intercourse with
- turn like a screw
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
noun
- someone who guards prisoners
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
- slang for sexual intercourse
verb
verb
- press down tightly
- arrange in a container
- fill to capacity
- compress into a wad
- carry, as on one's back
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- press tightly together or cram
- hike with a backpack
- seal with packing
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
noun
- a large indefinite quantity
- a complete collection of similar things
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- an association of criminals
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a group of hunting animals
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
verb
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
noun
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
- A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- The mouth of a shaft.
verb
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- To diminish gradually.
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
adj
noun
- A small light.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
verb
- To add a margin to.
- To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.
- To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).
noun
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
- The edge or border of any flat surface.
- The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- margin of victory
- That which is ancillary; periphery.
- The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
- The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
- Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
verb
noun
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- Five cards in sequence.
- A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- A heterosexual.
- A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
adj
- Direct, undeviating.
- Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- Strait; narrow.
- Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Not plus size; thin.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- Heterosexual.
- Serious rather than comedic.
- Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
adv
verb
noun
- An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
- In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
- Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
- Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
verb
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
- squeeze or press together
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- compress into a wad
- make more compact by or as if by pressing
adj
noun
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small and economical car
adj
verb
- To loosen or separate the parts of.
- to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)
- To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
- To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
- To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
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