knurl
girt
adhamant
hook
lap
tie
crimp
pinch
turn
corrugate
crook
uncincate
articulate
taut-line hitch
Ashley's bend
lip
Albright knot
beer knot
intorsion
gird
zip
cam
intervolve
zipper
crosshead
zip fastener
draw
swing handle
cottise
slide fastener
crowd
friction clutch
circumvolute
chock
lay
roll
rollicky
inrail
begirdle
corrugated
swedge
unguiform
skelp
elasticate
trefoiled
jaw
shifter
engirdle
hooky
Simple Simon over
girdle
bat out
rack
hem
roll off
quarter belt
bob
multiarticulate
splay
spin
quilled
wind
cringle
bracket
bushing
swivel
incurvate
crank
mouse
mousing
ruched
trelliswork
buckle
plagio-
spider
rib joint pliers
tie-on
clove hitch
cyrto-
mug
flake
wedge
wrap
key
bank
input arm
power chain
rollable
beltwise
backsplice
clypeate
hangle
prehensile
wrap up
buck
acrook
adhamant
uncincate
rollicky
corrugated
unguiform
trefoiled
hooky
multiarticulate
quilled
ruched
tie-on
rollable
clypeate
prehensile
acrook
beltwise
knurl
taut-line hitch
Ashley's bend
Albright knot
beer knot
intorsion
hook
zip
cam
zipper
crosshead
zip fastener
swing handle
slide fastener
friction clutch
chock
jaw
shifter
Simple Simon over
rack
hem
quarter belt
bob
bushing
swivel
mouse
mousing
trelliswork
buckle
spider
rib joint pliers
clove hitch
mug
flake
key
input arm
power chain
hangle
knurl
girt
hook
lap
tie
crimp
pinch
turn
corrugate
crook
articulate
lip
gird
intervolve
draw
cottise
crowd
circumvolute
lay
roll
inrail
begirdle
swedge
skelp
elasticate
engirdle
girdle
bat out
roll off
splay
spin
wind
cringle
bracket
incurvate
crank
wedge
wrap
bank
backsplice
wrap up
buck
verb
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
noun
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A tiewig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A lace-up shoe.
- A connection between two vertices.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- cut the top off
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
noun
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
noun
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- A walk to and fro.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
verb
- To bend, or form into a hook.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- To become bent or hooked.
adj
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.
verb
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- To make clear or effective.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- to form a joint or connect by joints
- to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
noun
adj
verb
- To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
- To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
- To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- To utter verbally.
- To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- To wash against a surface, lap.
noun
- Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
- One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
- Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
noun
- A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
- A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
- Camera.
- A ridge or mound of earth.
- A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
verb
verb
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To fill by pressing or thronging together
- To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- To press together or collect in numbers
- To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- To push, to press, to shove.
- To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
noun
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- A fiddle.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
noun
- Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
- Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
adv
verb
verb
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
adj
verb
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
adj
adj
noun
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
- Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance.
- Axle guard.
- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
- The part of the face below the mouth.
- A notch or opening.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
- The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
verb
noun
- An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
- A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
- A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
- A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
verb
- To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
- To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
noun
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- The zodiac; also, the equator.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
noun
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
verb
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- A rim or margin of something.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
intj
verb
verb
- To spontaneously roll suddenly and rapidly to one side or the other upon entering a stall (due to one wing stalling slightly before the other does, combined with the reduced effectiveness of ailerons for roll control at high angles of attack).
- To show reduced response at the upper or lower limits of a frequency range.
- To come from an assembly line.
- To come off (something) with a rolling motion.
noun
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- An unspecified amount of money.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A bobsleigh.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- A curtsy.
- A bob haircut.
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The short runner of a sled.
verb
- To bobsleigh.
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- To curtsy.
- To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
verb
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To search rapidly.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move swiftly.
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
noun
- The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- Special interest of an autistic person.
- Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- A single play of a record by a radio station.
verb
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
noun
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
verb
- To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
- To set aside, discount, ignore.
- To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
- To place in the same category.
- To enclose in typographical brackets.
- In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
- To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
- To support by means of mechanical brackets.
- To mark distinctly for special treatment.
noun
- The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
- "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
- One of several ranges of numbers.
- The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
- A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
- A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
- A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
- Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
- A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
noun
- A type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.
- A threaded bushing: a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.
- An adapter for joining pipes of different size.
- A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.
- An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.
noun
- A piece, such as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
- A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun.
- Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will.
- The act of swivelling.
- A rotating of the hips.
- A small, usually ball- or barrel-shaped device used in angling to connect sections of fishing lines, consisting of two rings linked via a thrust bearing pivot joint.
verb
noun
- A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
- (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
- Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
- A small cushion for a woman's hair.
- The cursor.
- A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
- A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
- A quiet or shy person.
- A facial hematoma or black eye.
- A match used in firing guns or blasting.
verb
noun
- A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
- A contorted expression, as of the face.
- A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
- An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
- The brisure of an eighth daughter.
- A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
- A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
verb
- To buckle down; to apply oneself.
- To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
- To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
- To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
- To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
- To fasten using a buckle.
- To unite in marriage.
prefix
noun
- A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- A soft-hackle fly.
- A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- A spider graph or spider tree.
- A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- Heroin.
- A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
- Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- A spindly person.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
verb
prefix
noun
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- The meat of the gummy shark.
- Dogfish.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A paling; a hurdle.
- A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
verb
verb
- To shape into a wedge.
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
- To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
- To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
- To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
- To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
noun
- A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
- A wraparound mortgage.
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
- The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
noun
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- something crucial for explaining
- pitch of the voice
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of answers to a test
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
adj
verb
verb
- To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- To put into a bank.
- To arrange or order in a row.
- To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
noun
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- The ground at the top of a shaft.
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- Money; profit.
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- An incline, a hill.
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- A device used to store coins or currency.
- An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
verb
- To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it.
- To summarize or recapitulate.
- To hide or cover up.
- To conclude or finish completely.
- To put on abundant clothing as protection from the cold; to bundle up.
- To curl into a more compact form.
- To tie up; to make too busy to respond.
- To cocoon; to surround protectively.
- To combine, incorporate or encapsulate into one thing.
verb
- To bend; buckle.
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
- To fuck.
- To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- To swell out.
- To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
- To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
noun
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A rand (currency unit).
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- Size.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- A euro.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
- One hundred.
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- The beech tree.
- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- One million dollars.
- The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
- Belly, breast, chest.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Money.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
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