unbunch
extend
unclench
straight
unmess
straightenable
unbrick
open up
pioneer
clear away
unbatten
straighten up
unplant
brush down
clean
fenestrate
unscrew
straighten out
lid
unwrap
chink
spruce
seam
unshutter
dig out
prestraighten
sprucen
underfurrow
stow
rake
draw back
rim out
tidy-up
crowd
clean up
restraighten
upfold
tosh
collapse
outwrench
vamp
compaction
impact
clamshell
bash into shape
uppluck
holk
turn back
redd
lay open
draw
pile
chuck
head up
unsnib
crop
unsnarled
ruche
vart
hole
unrip
unroll
loosened
unclutch
undraw
tidy
semiopen
snip-snap
disentangled
check
polishable
horn in
true
glut
silt
desquamate
entrench
fold
moult
underwrap
smoothable
frig
stock up
chamfer
paint the wagon
balk
unseam
cock
cloy
upwrench
spile
scrapple
sticky-up
side
grit
aggerate
hand shovel
close in on
rectify
straightenable
unsnarled
loosened
semiopen
disentangled
polishable
smoothable
sticky-up
vamp
compaction
hole
glut
fold
hand shovel
unbunch
extend
unclench
straight
unmess
unbrick
open up
pioneer
clear away
unbatten
straighten up
unplant
brush down
clean
fenestrate
unscrew
straighten out
lid
unwrap
chink
spruce
seam
unshutter
dig out
prestraighten
sprucen
underfurrow
stow
rake
draw back
rim out
tidy-up
crowd
clean up
restraighten
upfold
tosh
collapse
outwrench
impact
clamshell
bash into shape
uppluck
holk
turn back
redd
lay open
draw
pile
chuck
head up
unsnib
crop
ruche
vart
unrip
unroll
unclutch
undraw
tidy
snip-snap
check
horn in
true
silt
desquamate
entrench
moult
underwrap
frig
stock up
chamfer
paint the wagon
balk
unseam
cock
cloy
upwrench
spile
scrapple
side
grit
aggerate
close in on
rectify
verb
- open or straighten out; unbend
- extend in scope or range or area
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- make available; provide
- thrust or extend out
- reach outward in space
- offer verbally
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- expand the influence of
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- cause to move at full gallop
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- prolong the time allowed for payment of
- continue or extend
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
verb
adv
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
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.
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.
verb
- To tidy up, make a place neat.
- To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- Synonym of clean up
- To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- To remove dirt from a place or object.
- To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
- To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
- To make things clean in general.
- To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
noun
- Removal of dirt.
- The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
adj
- Pure, especially morally or religiously.
- Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
- Empty.
- Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
- Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
- In an unmarked condition.
- Not having used drugs or alcohol.
- Cool or neat.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well.
- That does not damage the environment.
- Having relatively few impurities.
- Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
- Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
- Not dirty.
- Devoid of profanity.
- Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
- Ascended without falling.
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
adv
verb
noun
- A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
- In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- A cap or hat.
- One ounce of cannabis.
- A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
- A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)
- A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
- The top or cover of a container.
- A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
verb
- To crack; to open.
- To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
- To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
noun
verb
- To crack open along a seam.
- Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
- To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
- To put together with a seam.
- Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
- To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
noun
- The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- A line of junction; a joint.
- A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
- A suture.
- A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
- An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
verb
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
- To fill by pressing or thronging together
- To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- To press together or collect in numbers
- To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- To push, to press, to shove.
- To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
noun
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- A fiddle.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
- To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
- To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.
- To intervene in a fight between two players at low health and easily kill both of them or the winner.
- To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such.
verb
noun
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
- A vampire.
- A volunteer firefighter.
verb
- To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- To travel by foot; to walk.
- To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- To seduce or exploit someone.
- To turn into a vampire.
- To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
verb
- To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with take-out food.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
verb
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- To add something to a great number.
- (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
noun
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A list or league
- A mass formed in layers.
- A large amount of money.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A hemorrhoid.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
verb
- To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
- To discard, to throw away.
- To vomit.
- To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
- To jilt; to dump.
- To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- To touch or tap gently.
- To leave; to depart; to bounce.
- To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
- To call, as a hen her chickens.
- To make a clucking sound.
noun
- Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
- A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
- A clucking sound.
- A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
- A gentle touch or tap.
- A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
- An act or instance of vomiting.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- A small pebble.
- A casual throw.
verb
- To mow, reap or gather.
- To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To cause to bear a crop.
- To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- To yield harvest.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- The foliate part of a finial.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
- A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
- A short haircut.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- The act of cropping.
adj
adj
verb
noun
- A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
- A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
- The wren.
adj
- Generous, considerable.
- Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
- Arranged neatly and in order.
- Not messy; neat and controlled.
- Satisfactory; comfortable.
intj
adj
adj
verb
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To mark with a check pattern.
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
adj
verb
- To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight).
- To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
adj
- As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- Genuine; legitimate, valid.
- Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
- based on actual historical events.
- Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- Loyal, faithful.
- Accurate; following a path toward the target.
adv
noun
noun
- Something that fills up an opening.
- That which is swallowed.
- A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- Five goals scored by one player in a game.
- A block used for a fulcrum.
- An excess, too much.
- The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
- A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
verb
verb
noun
verb
verb
- To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
- To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
- To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
noun
- That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
- A group of sheep or goats.
- A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Home, family.
- A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- An act of folding.
- The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A bend or crease.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
verb
- To stir gently, with a folding action.
- To fall over; to be crushed.
- To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- To give way on a point or in an argument.
- To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
- To become folded; to form folds.
- To withdraw from betting.
- To withdraw or quit in general.
- To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
- To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
- To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- To confine animals in a fold.
- Of a company, to cease to trade.
verb
- To provide with a wrapping that will subsequently be covered or wrapped by something else.
- To provide with an underwrap.
- To wrap such that the wrapping does not go all the way to the edge.
- To underlap.
- To provide with insufficient wrappings.
- To wrap the underside of something.
noun
- A lightweight foam that is applied to the skin to reduce irritation before wrapping with supportive tape.
- An optional wrap that goes under the guide wrap on a fishing rod.
- A sheath that surrounds a limb and which is used under a cast.
- An undergarment that consists of a cloth wrapped around the body.
- The portion of a garment that is overlapped by another portion, such as the hidden part of a wrap skirt or the edge that holds buttons which is hidden when a garment is buttoned up.
verb
verb
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To erect; to turn up.
- To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- To form into piles.
noun
- The penis.
- The circle at the end of the rink.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- Vulva, vagina.
- Shuttlecock.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A cock pigeon.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- A man; a fellow, especially as a term of address.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
intj
verb
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
noun
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- A sports team.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- Sidespin; english
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
adv
adj
verb
- To cover with grit.
- Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
noun
- A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
- Inedible particles in food.
- Husked but unground oats.
- A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
- Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
verb
verb
- To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
- To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
- To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
- To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
- To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
- To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
- To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
- To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
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