close the range
push away
open the range
aim
defect
beat off
fray
fire
discharge
get after
striking distance
quiet move
counterbuff
drive out
long
leapfrog
hit and run
besiege
infantry
repel
kick
catch
cross-counter
fallback
pullout
strike
disengagement
hand over
hit
cede the field
rescue
slip
wash up
detrench
scorch
outdeploy
sequester
break
go to war
run out
buck
counter-attack
shell
pelt
arm
bombard
pepper
bear
rout
hull
flying column
march on
entrench
brandish
lay down
port
rape
outarm
manhaul
bear down
force
bombshell
strafe
haul one's ashes
wax someone's tail
firing
environ
draw fire
fight back
advance guard
march
outflank
weapons tight
carry
chase
torpedo
worst
hunt
rifle
go to the mattresses
man-portable
hypermilitarize
strike back
touch down
fireplan
bonk
cannonade
subdue
retreat
skip bombing
translocate
rase
claw
aside
maneuver
long
man-portable
aside
striking distance
quiet move
hit and run
infantry
fallback
pullout
disengagement
flying column
rout
fire
bombshell
firing
advance guard
fireplan
retreat
skip bombing
close the range
push away
open the range
aim
defect
beat off
fray
fire
discharge
get after
counterbuff
drive out
leapfrog
besiege
repel
kick
catch
cross-counter
strike
hand over
hit
cede the field
rescue
slip
wash up
detrench
scorch
outdeploy
sequester
break
go to war
run out
buck
counter-attack
shell
pelt
arm
bombard
pepper
bear
rout
hull
march on
entrench
brandish
lay down
port
rape
outarm
manhaul
bear down
force
strafe
haul one's ashes
wax someone's tail
environ
draw fire
fight back
march
outflank
carry
chase
torpedo
worst
hunt
rifle
go to the mattresses
hypermilitarize
strike back
touch down
bonk
cannonade
subdue
translocate
rase
claw
maneuver
verb
- To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it
- To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object
- To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group
- To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive
noun
- Intention or goal
- The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target
- The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
- The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
verb
- To assail or attack (someone or something); to drive (someone or something) away by attacking.
- To force or make (a path, way, etc.) through.
- To rub.
- Often followed by away, off, or out: to frighten or scare (someone or something) away.
- Of a person's mental strength, nerves, temper, etc.: to become exhausted or worn out.
- To become unravelled or worn; to unravel.
- To be afraid or frightened; to fear.
- Of a deer: to rub (its antlers or head) against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet from antlers or to mark territory; also, to rub its antlers against (a tree, etc.) for that purpose.
- Of a deer: to rub its antlers against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet or to mark territory.
- To alarm or frighten (someone or something).
- To chase (someone or something) away; to disperse.
- To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.
- To make an assault or attack; also, to create a disturbance; to brawl, to fight.
noun
verb
- To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- To forcibly direct (something).
- 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 the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
- 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.
adj
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.
verb
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To release (an accumulated charge).
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
noun
- The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The process of flowing out.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- The process of unloading something.
adj
- Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location, as weapons fire or landing aircraft.
- Not short; tall.
- Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring or tedious or tiring.
- Having great duration.
- Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).
noun
- An entity with a long position in an asset.
- A long-term investment.
- A long vowel.
- A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- A long syllable.
verb
adv
verb
- To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
- To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
- To overtake.
- To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- To progress.
noun
- The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated.
noun
- The military technique of attacking one place and then quickly moving to another before defenders can react.
- A play in baseball where the baserunners leave their base before the batter hits the ball, assuming that the batter will in fact hit the ball and this will give them an advantage.
- The crime of causing an accident, as with a motor vehicle, and leaving without acknowledging responsibility.
verb
verb
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
verb
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- stop work in order to press demands
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- attain
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- find unexpectedly
- produce by ignition or a blow
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cause to experience suddenly
- drive something violently into a location
- occupy or take on
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- smooth with a strickle
- pierce with force
- hook by a pull on the line
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
noun
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- a gentle blow
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a conspicuous success
verb
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- cause to move by striking
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- encounter by chance
- cause to experience suddenly
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- drive something violently into a location
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- hit the intended target or goal
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
noun
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- a connection made via the internet to another website
verb
- To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
- To recover forcibly.
- To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
noun
verb
- To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- 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 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.
noun
- 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 twig or shoot; a cutting.
- 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 wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
- To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- (To cause) to become scorched or singed
- To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
noun
verb
- To seize and hold enemy property.
- To separate in order to store.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
- To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- To withdraw; to retire.
- To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
noun
verb
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
verb
- To force (someone or something) out of a location or state of being.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, out.
- To extend a piece of material, or clothing.
- To get a batsman out via a run out (see runout)
- To use up; to consume all of something. See also run low, run short.
- to be got out in this way.
- To expire; to come to an end; to be completely used up or consumed.
- To conclude in, to end up
verb
- To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
- To fuck.
- To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- To bend; buckle.
- To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- To swell out.
- To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
- To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
noun
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A rand (currency unit).
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- Size.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- A euro.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
- One hundred.
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- The beech tree.
- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- One million dollars.
- The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
- Belly, breast, chest.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Money.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
verb
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
noun
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A person's ear.
- Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
verb
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
- To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
- To become prepared for action; to activate.
adj
noun
- A pitcher
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
- The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
- The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
- One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- A branch of an organization.
- A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- A weapon.
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- Power; might; strength; support.
verb
- To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
- To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
- To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
- To continuously send or direct (at someone)
noun
verb
noun
- climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
- any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
- pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
verb
- Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
- To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with.
- To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- To wear.
- To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).
- To have or display (a mark or other feature).
- To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.
- To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).
- To have (a name, title, or designation).
- To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).
- To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.
- To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).
- To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
- To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.
- To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.
- To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.
- To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.
- To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
- To behave or conduct (oneself).
- To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
- To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
- To support or sustain; to hold up.
- To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
- To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- To push, thrust, press.
- To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
- To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
- To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- To warrant, justify the need for.
- To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
- To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
noun
- The meat of this animal.
- A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).
- A portable punching machine.
- An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
- Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- The fifteenth Lenormand card.
- A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
adj
verb
- To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- To snore, especially loudly.
- Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
noun
- The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- A group of disorganized things.
verb
noun
- The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
- Any covering.
- The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
- The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
verb
- 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 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 cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in 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.
verb
- To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
- To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
- To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.
- To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).
- To euthanize an animal.
- To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.
- simple past tense of lie down
- To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.
- To place on the ground, e.g. a railway on a trackbed.
verb
- To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
- To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
- To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
- To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform. Porting (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.
- To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
adj
noun
- A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.
- A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
- A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.
- A suitcase or schoolbag.
- A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port (hardware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
- The portfolio of a model or artist.
- An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
- The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
- A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
- A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
- An entryway or gate.
- A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
- Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
- The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
- A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
- A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
verb
- To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
- To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- To force sexual intercourse or other penetrative sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
- To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)
noun
- Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
- One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
verb
- To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.
- To approach in a determined manner.
- To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward.
- To intensify one's efforts.
- To exert downward pressure on one's abdomen, as in giving birth, forcing out feces, and some similar bodily maneuvers.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down.
verb
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- To compel (someone or something) to do something.
- To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- 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.
verb
- To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
- To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
- To encircle or surround (someone or something).
- Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
- Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
- Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
noun
verb
- In an armed encounter, to attract gunfire from an adversary, whether unintentionally or deliberately for the purpose of allowing one's allies or colleagues to gain a tactical advantage over the adversary.
- To create a distraction that allows one's friends, co-workers, or other associates to gain an advantage over the distracted party.
- To attract criticism or an angry reaction.
verb
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- To have common borders or frontiers
- To make steady progress.
- To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- To cause someone to walk somewhere.
noun
- A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
- Steady forward movement or progression.
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
- A political rally or parade
- Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
- The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
verb
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- To insult, to diss.
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
verb
- To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- 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 cut (the thread of a screw).
- 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
- To strike (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
- To sink (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
- To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.
noun
- A similar projectile that can travel through space.
- A professional gunman or assassin.
- An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
- A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
- A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
- A thick marijuana cigarette.
- A cigarette containing marijuana and crack cocaine.
- A submarine sandwich.
- An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back.
- A woman's shoe with a pointed toe.
- A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
- A large breast; a breast with a large nipple.
verb
- To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- To try to find something; search (for).
- To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- To shift up and down in order regularly.
- To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
noun
verb
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
noun
noun
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
verb
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