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verb
- To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
- To make a set of changes permanent.
- To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
noun
verb
- To imprison.
- To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
- To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
- To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
noun
- Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
- A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
- An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
- A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- Discussion of business or professional affairs.
- An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
verb
noun
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- Confinement in a jail.
- A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
verb
- To imprison.
- To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- To install (a bridge).
- To eject or cause to fall off.
- To project or send forth.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- Synonym of pass
- Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- To deliver.
- To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- To roll (a die or dice).
- To discard.
- To send desperately.
- To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
- To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To confuse or mislead.
- To organize an event, especially a party.
- To intentionally lose a game.
- To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To imprison or incarcerate (someone).
- To invest in something long term.
- To stop moving; to seize.
- To close all doors and windows (of a place) securely.
- To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning).
- To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze.
- To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze.
- To stop spinning due to excessive braking torque.
- To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction.
- To cease responding; to freeze.
verb
verb
verb
- To put into jail.
- To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
- To nestle or collect together in a covey.
- to issue a detention (to a student)
- To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
noun
- A hold large enough for both hands
- A woman's breasts.
- A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
- A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
- The amount that a jug can hold.
- detention (after-school student punishment)
- An upright electric kettle.
- Jail.
- A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
verb
- To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To lend.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- To adopt a word from another language.
- To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
noun
verb
- To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
- To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
- To internalize.
- To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
noun
verb
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a website.
- I took down the medicine and soon felt better.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.
- To swallow.
- To reduce.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
verb
- To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
- To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
- To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
adj
noun
verb
- To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).
- To play slap bass on (an instrument).
- To be excellent.
- To cause something to strike soundly.
- To strike soundly against something.
- To place, to put carelessly.
- To give a slap to.
noun
- The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.
- An eye-catching sticker used in street art.
- Makeup; cosmetics.
- A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
- A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.
adv
adj
- For the purpose of imposing punishment.
- Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
- We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.
- Of or relating to an academic field of study.
noun
noun
- Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- An undesirable place to live or visit.
- A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- A container or receptacle.
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- Sex, or a sex partner.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
- A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
verb
verb
- To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
- To make the score of a game equal.
- To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- To speak honestly and openly with.
- To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- To progress to the next level.
- To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
noun
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- A school grade or year.
- Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- Degree or amount.
- A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.
- An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
adj
- In the same position or rank.
- Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Calm.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
verb
- To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
- To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
- To sew by buttonhole stitch.
- To apply a flowery formation in.
noun
- A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
- So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole.
- A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
- The mouth and/or nose and/or eyes if appearing tiny.
- A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
- anus, batty hole.
verb
- inflict as a punishment
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- be the cause or source of
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- convey or reveal information
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- organize or be responsible for
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- dedicate
- give or supply
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- bring about
- leave with; give temporarily
- emit or utter
- endure the loss of
- place into the hands or custody of
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- give (as medicine)
- give or convey physically
- bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- execute and deliver
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- afford access to
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- propose
- accord by verdict
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- allow to have or take
- occur
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- proffer (a body part)
noun
verb
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
adv
- In or to prison.
- Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
- Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
- Indoors.
noun
- The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- The interior or inner part.
- (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
adj
- Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
- Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
prep
verb
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- To open a closed ion channel.
- To furnish with a gate.
noun
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- Movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A way, path.
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