turn back
untread
backtrack
back
hark back
recurvate
double back
sway
shake
rock
the other way round
upgradient
tack
flip
switch
alternate
flip-flop
normalize
reel
interchange
reversely
commutate
reversion
unmove
reversally
retractably
retranslocate
unreverse
curve
backpedal
retrograde
backsie
set back
contra
invert
unshake
unclimb
posteroanterior
retreat
ortholinear
reverse
rake
reciprocative
backward
reciprocatory
move back and forth
backstep
backing
retrally
leftwise
turn round
retractive
gostun
otherwards
turn out
unturn
yaw
reversewise
reverseways
twist
pull
splay
rotate
unaccelerate
edge
backmap
spread out
retort
rearrangingly
arse about face
stepwisely
diverge
balance
crook
up and down
about
undeviating
step over
lateral
put back
turn about
unswerving
castoring
renversement
linearly
retractively
veer
retraversal
behind
posteroanterior
ortholinear
reciprocative
reciprocatory
retrograde
retractive
undeviating
unswerving
castoring
back
the other way round
upgradient
reversely
reversally
retractably
retrograde
backward
retrally
leftwise
otherwards
reversewise
reverseways
rearrangingly
arse about face
stepwisely
up and down
about
linearly
retractively
behind
reversion
backsie
retreat
backstep
backing
reverse
retrograde
renversement
retraversal
turn back
untread
backtrack
back
hark back
recurvate
double back
sway
shake
rock
tack
flip
switch
alternate
flip-flop
normalize
reel
interchange
commutate
unmove
retranslocate
unreverse
curve
backpedal
set back
contra
invert
unshake
unclimb
reverse
rake
move back and forth
turn round
gostun
backstep
turn out
unturn
yaw
twist
pull
splay
rotate
unaccelerate
edge
backmap
spread out
retort
diverge
balance
crook
step over
lateral
put back
turn about
veer
retrograde
adv
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
postp
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
verb
- To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
- To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
- To call back (hounds); to recall.
- Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
noun
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
verb
noun
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
- hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- pitching dangerously to one side
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- fasten with tacks
- turn into the wind
- create by putting components or members together
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- fix to; attach
noun
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- sailing a zigzag course
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- lightly throw to see which side comes up
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- look through a book or other written material
- toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
- cause to move with a flick
- throw or toss with a light motion
- move with a flick or light motion
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way
- go mad, go crazy
noun
- an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
- hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg
- a sudden, quick movement
- the act of flipping a coin
- a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
adj
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- make a shift in or exchange of
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
noun
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns
adj
adj
- every second one of a series
- serving or used in place of another
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
noun
verb
- To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- To make normal, to make standard.
- To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
verb
- To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- To wind on a reel.
- To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- To make or cause to reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- To be in shock.
noun
- A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
- A shaky or unsteady gait.
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- cause to change places
noun
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- To reverse the direction of (a current).
- To commute; to change one kind of payment into another, especially to convert from several installments to a single lumpsum payment.
- To commute; to be invariant under a reversal of the positions of operands.
- To transform, especially into a reversed or opposite form.
- To convert from being or using an alternating current into being or using a direct current.
- To remove or reduce the legal obligations or restrictions on
noun
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- The action of reverting something.
- The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- An estate which has been returned in this manner.
verb
- To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- To bend; to crook.
- To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
- To cause to swerve from a straight course.
noun
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
- An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A one-dimensional continuum.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
adv
adj
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
verb
noun
- A deal to swap goods or services.
- A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- A contra dance.
prep
adv
verb
- To turn (the foot) inwards.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To undergo inversion, as sugar.
adj
noun
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
- A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- An invertebrate.
- An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
noun
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
- A period of meditation, prayer or study.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
- A signal for a military withdrawal.
- Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
verb
adj
- Moving in one direction, in which each step leads to the next.
- Having all turns occurring at right angles.
- Having keys that are aligned in a perfect grid.
- Defining progress as one-dimensional, so that change is either a progression, a regression, or a neutral step to the side.
- Forming a line when plotted on a set of orthogonal axes.
verb
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
noun
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The opposite of something.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
adj
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
verb
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- 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 cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- 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.
adv
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
noun
adj
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- Late or behindhand.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
noun
- A step backwards
- An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- Flow over a backward-facing step.
verb
- To take a step backwards
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To retract or take back.
- To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
verb
- To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
- To revolve or rotate around a centre.
- To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
verb
- turn outward
- be shown or be found to be
- prove to be in the result or end
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- result or end
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- bring forth
- put out or expel from a place
- come and gather for a public event
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- get up and out of bed
verb
- To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
- To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- To swerve off course to port or starboard.
- To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
noun
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
verb
- turn in the opposite direction
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- form into a spiral shape
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- do the twist
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
noun
- an unforeseen development
- an interpretation of a text or action
- any clever maneuver
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a circular segment of a curve
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- a jerky pulling movement
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- the act of winding or twisting
- turning or twisting around (in place)
verb
- move into a certain direction
- cause to move by pulling
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- steer into a certain direction
- strain abnormally
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- operate when rowing a boat
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- tear or be torn violently
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- strip of feathers
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- take away
noun
verb
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To win by a small margin.
noun
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
verb
- To bend or curve back.
- To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- To heat in a retort.
- To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
- To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
noun
- A pressure cooker.
- A crematory furnace.
- A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
- An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
- A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
verb
- To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
- To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
- Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
verb
- To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
- To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
- To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.
- To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
- To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
- To make (concepts) agree.
- To have matching credits and debits.
- To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
- To be in equilibrium.
noun
- A pair of scales.
- The remainder.
- A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
- A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
- Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.
- Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
- A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
- The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
- The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.
- Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
- Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
verb
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- To become bent or hooked.
- To bend, or form into a hook.
noun
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- A pothook.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
adj
adv
- To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
- To the opposite tack: see go about.
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- On all sides; around.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
prep
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
- In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- See about to.
- On one's person; nearby the person.
- Have you much hay about? = Have you much in the process of making?
- Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
adj
verb
noun
- An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
- An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
- A lateral pass.
adj
- Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.
- To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
- Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
- Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.
- (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
adv
- In a rearward direction.
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
prep
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in time.
- In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- After in physical progress or distance.
- In support of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
noun
- In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
- The rear, back-end.
- The buttocks, bottom, butt.
- A one-point score.
- The catcher.
adj
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