intervene
wait
hit a snag
respite
fish or cut bait
stall for time
stall
limitative
set back
buy time
make hay while the sun shines
eventualize
kairos
arrive
time is of the essence
delayability
hold up
loom
run up
chase a rainbow
pass
latency
happen
defer
delay
postponement
hold
putoff
time lag
hold off
approximate
miss the boat
procrastinate
put off
hap
accelerate
come off
hinder
fate
impede
rise
take place
retardation
well-timed
play for time
forestay
plunge
expedience
falter
showtime
strike while the iron is hot
creep up
not a minute too soon
land up
flash
stave
motory
in the way of
stonewall
postdate
hitch
dally
lie in the way
foot-dragging
import
dilatory
holdup
catch
high noon
come to pass
hit
fly
cunctatorship
footdragger
break
punch someone's ticket
catch up
see which way the cat jumps
be
precipitation
setback
fall
procrastination
let
pend
stound
limitative
well-timed
motory
dilatory
not a minute too soon
stall
kairos
delayability
latency
wait
delay
postponement
hold
putoff
time lag
fate
rise
retardation
expedience
showtime
foot-dragging
holdup
high noon
cunctatorship
footdragger
precipitation
setback
procrastination
let
stound
intervene
wait
hit a snag
respite
fish or cut bait
stall for time
set back
buy time
make hay while the sun shines
eventualize
arrive
hold up
loom
run up
chase a rainbow
pass
happen
defer
stall
hold off
approximate
miss the boat
procrastinate
put off
hold
hap
accelerate
come off
hinder
impede
delay
take place
play for time
forestay
plunge
falter
strike while the iron is hot
creep up
land up
flash
stave
stonewall
postdate
hitch
dally
lie in the way
import
catch
come to pass
hit
fly
break
punch someone's ticket
catch up
see which way the cat jumps
be
fall
pend
verb
- To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
- To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
- To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
verb
noun
noun
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
verb
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To come to a standstill.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
verb
verb
- To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; (of a person or thing) to tower; (of an idea) to impressively or intimidatingly occupy the mind; (of an event) to be imminent.
- To appear indistinctly, e.g. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.
- To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
noun
- A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
- A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
- The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade; the shaft.
- A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.
verb
- To approach (an event or point in time).
- To accumulate (a debt).
- To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
- To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
- To take to a destination or before an authority.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
- To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
- Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
- To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
- To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
- To erect hastily, as a building.
- To string up; to hang.
verb
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
noun
- A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
verb
- To delay or postpone
- To delay, to wait.
- To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
- to postpone induction into military service.
- After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
noun
- time during which some action is awaited
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- a stronghold
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
verb
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- organize or be responsible for
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- contain or hold; have within
- have room for; hold without crowding
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be valid, applicable, or true
- assert or affirm
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- protect against a challenge or attack
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- hold the attention of
- remain committed to
- resist or confront with resistance
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- stop dealing with
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- keep from departing
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- aim, point, or direct
- declare to be
- be in accord; be in agreement
- keep from exhaling or expelling
verb
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- Grow; increase.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
adj
noun
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
verb
noun
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The height of an arch or a step.
verb
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- To attain a higher status.
- To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To develop.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- To be resurrected.
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- To slope upward.
- To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To move upwards.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
verb
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
- To remove a blockage by suction.
- To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
noun
verb
- To hesitate in purpose or action.
- To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
- To cleanse or sift, as barley.
- To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
- To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
- To stumble.
- To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
noun
verb
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
adj
verb
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
noun
- The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
- A staff or walking stick.
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
verb
- To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- To attach, tie or fasten.
- To pull with a jerk.
- To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
noun
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- A sudden pull.
- A period of time spent in the military.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
verb
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
- To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
noun
verb
- To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- To mean, signify.
- To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
- To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
- To be of importance to (someone or something).
noun
verb
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
verb
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
pron
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
adj
verb
- move quickly or suddenly
- travel through the air; be airborne
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- cause to fly or float
- be dispersed or disseminated
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- pass away rapidly
- travel in an airplane
- display in the air or cause to float
- run away quickly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- hit a fly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
adj
noun
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
verb
- happen or take place
- 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
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- 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
- 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 occur, to take place.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- Used to express future action as well as what is due to, intended to, or should happen.
- Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to form the continuous aspect.
- To occupy a place.
- Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
- To exist.
- Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
- Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate the time of day.
- Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- To exist or behave in a certain way.
- Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- Used to form the passive voice.
- Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs; this was more common in archaic use, especially with verbs indicating motion. "He is finished", and "He is gone" are common, but "He is come" is archaic.
- Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
noun
noun
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening
- the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
- the process of forming a chemical precipitate
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
noun
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- A step-like recession in a wall.
- The required distance between a structure and a road.
verb
- To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To become.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- To be brought to the ground.
- To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To come down, to drop or descend.
intj
noun
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- The action of a batsman being out.
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
- A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- That which falls or cascades.
noun
- An obstacle or hindrance.
- The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
- The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
verb
- To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
- Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
- To cause (+ bare infinitive).
- To allow the release of (a fluid).
- To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
- To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.
- To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
noun
- A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- A receptacle for holding small beer.
- A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
- A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
- A stand; a stop.
- A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
- Astonishment; amazement.
verb
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