grabble
pick
feel around
claw
climb
dip
gouge
pair of tongs
feel
dig
toe
palm
pick at
spade-handed
feel for
interdigital
fingery
draw
on tiptoe
finger
grab
tiptoe
shovel
reach
reach for
scoopingly
lift a finger
assume the position
pat
extremity
tongs
worm
rootle
open-hand
dig up
excavate
slack-handed
snap
shimmy
paw
prize
pry
scratch
lever
fingertip
prise
hold
jimmy
grabbler
scout
tip
wave
reconnoiter
ladderize
grasper
cow bite
reconnoitre
scram
chiropodous
reaching
toe-dip
count on one hand
fish
grub up
scoop
touch base
leg up
maniform
grub out
get hold of
clapperclaw
scrabble
delve
octopus
fumble
vola
stick one's foot in it
take
holk
comb
pedipulation
within reach
catch
interdigitally
titubant
snatch
spade-handed
interdigital
fingery
tiptoe
chiropodous
maniform
titubant
scoopingly
slack-handed
interdigitally
pair of tongs
finger
shovel
extremity
tongs
snap
hold
grabbler
tip
wave
grasper
cow bite
pick
reaching
leg up
vola
grab
pedipulation
catch
snatch
grabble
pick
feel around
claw
climb
dip
gouge
feel
dig
toe
palm
pick at
feel for
draw
grab
reach
reach for
finger
lift a finger
assume the position
pat
worm
rootle
open-hand
dig up
excavate
shimmy
paw
prize
pry
scratch
lever
fingertip
prise
jimmy
scout
reconnoiter
ladderize
reconnoitre
tip
scram
toe-dip
count on one hand
fish
grub up
scoop
touch base
grub out
get hold of
clapperclaw
scrabble
delve
octopus
fumble
stick one's foot in it
take
holk
comb
verb
- To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
- To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
verb
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To move with one's fingertips.
- To scratch or to tear at.
- To use the claws to climb.
- To perform a claw catch.
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
noun
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
- To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- To mount; to move upwards on.
- To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- to jump high
- Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
- to practise the sport of climbing
- To scale; to get to the top of something.
- To ascend; rise; to go up.
noun
verb
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- dip into a liquid while eating
- go down momentarily
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- take a small amount from
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- lower briefly
- appear to move downward
- slope downwards
- dip into a liquid
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
noun
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a brief immersion
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief swim in water
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
verb
- To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- To use a gouge.
noun
- Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- An impostor.
- Information.
- An act of gouging.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
verb
- To search by sense of touch.
- To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- To be or become aware of.
- To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- To understand.
- To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- To experience the consequences of.
- To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
noun
verb
- To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- To thrust; to poke.
noun
- Digoxin.
- A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- A thrust; a poke.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- An innings.
verb
- To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to.
- To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe.
- To touch, tap or kick with the toes.
- To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club.
- To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened.
noun
- An advanced form of ballet primarily for the females, dancing ballet primarily using a Pointe shoe.
- An equivalent part in an animal.
- The upper end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the heel (lower end).
- Each of the five digits on the end of the foot.
- Something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something.
- An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle, either positive (toe in), meaning the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back, or negative (toe out), the other way round.
- The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
- The long side of an angled cut.
- That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe.
- A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, such as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
- A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
- cameltoe
verb
- To move something with the palm of the hand.
- To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
- To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
noun
- The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
- The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
- Synonym of hand, any of various units of length notionally derived from the breadth of the palm, formalized in England as 4 inches and now chiefly used for the height of horses
- Any of various units of length notionally derived from the length of the palm from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
- The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
- A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
- Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
- Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.
- The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
- Triumph; victory.
verb
- move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
- cause to move by pulling
- get or derive
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
- take liquid out of a container or well
- give a description of
- select or take in from a given group or region
- elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- suck in or take (air)
- move or go steadily or gradually
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- choose at random
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- to obtain a liquid from somewhere
- write a legal document or paper
- engage in drawing
- allow a draft
- require a specified depth for floating
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take in, also metaphorically
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- thread on or as if on a string
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pass over, across, or through
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- shrink
- reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- steep; pass through a strainer
- remove the entrails of
- flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- cause to localize at one point
noun
- a gully that is shallower than a ravine
- an entertainer who attracts large audiences
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage
- poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer
- the act of drawing or hauling something
noun
- Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- A person.
- An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
- Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger
- A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.
- Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
- Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
verb
- To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang.
- To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
- To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
verb
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To strike or touch.
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
noun
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
verb
- To turn away, with one's hands in a visible and unmovable position, so that one can be searched.
- Often used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to assume a given position.
- Often used as an order to bend over, for example, to receive the traditional corporal punishment in a case of misbehaviour.
verb
- To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
- To stroke or fondle (an animal).
- To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
- To gently rain.
noun
- A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
- The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
- A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
adj
- Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.
- Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.
adv
noun
- An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
- A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.
verb
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
noun
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a spell of cold weather
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- a sudden sharp noise
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
verb
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- move or strike with a noise
- close with a snapping motion
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- put in play with a snap
- cause to make a snapping sound
- lose control of one's emotions
- bring the jaws together
- record on photographic film
verb
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
- To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
noun
verb
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
noun
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- A small piece of meat.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
- A recycling centre.
- A piece of advice.
- Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- A very untidy place.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- A prediction or bet about the outcome of something.
verb
- To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- To dump (refuse).
- To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome.
- (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- To give, pass.
noun
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- The ocean.
- A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
verb
- To generate a wave.
- To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- To have an undulating or wavy form.
- To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- To produce waves to the hair.
- To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
verb
- To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- To leave in a hurry; to go away.
- To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
noun
verb
- To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- To use as bait when fishing.
- To hoist the flukes of.
- To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
noun
- A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- A woman.
- The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A male homosexual; a gay man.
- An easy victim for swindling.
- A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
- Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
- A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
- Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
- Cod; codfish.
- Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
- A period of time spent fishing.
- A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- An instance of seeking something.
verb
verb
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To pick (someone) up
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
noun
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- The raised end of a surfboard.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The peak of a cap.
- A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
verb
verb
- To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
- To behave like an octopus.
- To hunt and catch octopuses.
- To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
noun
- An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
- Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
verb
- get into one's hands, take physically
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- take into one's possession
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
verb
- To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- 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 apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- 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
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
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