searchlight
comb
inspectable
pectinate
shine
echo
ferret
scan
illuminate
well
scannable
street lamp
catch the sun
fine-tooth comb
glass
gobo
unshroud
probeable
snilch
look-see
toothcomb
mirrorize
once-over
rove
look over
radiate
probelike
specular
illuminating
radioscan
mirrorlike
grep
transilluminable
reverberate
interlighting
searchlighted
lampshade
looking for
thatcher's rake
cast about
looking
guidelight
backlight
scanning
floodlight
underlook
pope's head
take a gander
toot
photolocation
image
fluorosensor
photophore
drag
glance over
light
metasearch
hoe
light source
rootle
seek and ye shall find
illuminatingly
cucoloris
daylight
see over
sweep
blinder
look round
inspector
luciferous
solar microscope
exhume
catch the light
Windex
disenshroud
prelight
squizz
crosslight
look around
flashlight
preilluminate
scanningly
heliotrope
eyeball
overshroud
espy
annihilating
devastating
creep on
gouge
withering
endoscopically
mirror
picker-upper
inspectable
pectinate
scannable
probeable
probelike
specular
illuminating
mirrorlike
transilluminable
searchlighted
luciferous
annihilating
devastating
withering
illuminatingly
scanningly
endoscopically
street lamp
fine-tooth comb
gobo
once-over
interlighting
lampshade
looking for
thatcher's rake
looking
guidelight
scanning
pope's head
photolocation
fluorosensor
photophore
light
light source
cucoloris
blinder
inspector
solar microscope
heliotrope
scan
picker-upper
searchlight
comb
shine
echo
ferret
scan
illuminate
well
catch the sun
glass
unshroud
snilch
look-see
toothcomb
mirrorize
rove
look over
radiate
radioscan
grep
reverberate
cast about
backlight
floodlight
underlook
take a gander
toot
image
drag
glance over
metasearch
hoe
rootle
daylight
see over
sweep
fine-tooth comb
look round
exhume
catch the light
Windex
disenshroud
prelight
squizz
crosslight
look around
flashlight
preilluminate
eyeball
overshroud
espy
creep on
gouge
mirror
verb
- To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
adj
verb
- To reflect light.
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
noun
verb
- To reflect off a surface and return.
- To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
- To reflect back (a sound).
- To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
noun
- An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
- A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
verb
noun
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
intj
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
adj
noun
verb
- To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- To fit with glass; to glaze.
- To become glassy.
- To enclose in glass.
- To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- To make glassy.
noun
- The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- A barometer.
- Transparent or translucent.
- An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- Lenses, considered collectively.
- Glassware.
- The backboard.
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- A mirror.
- Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
noun
- A screen (often in disc form) placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare.
- A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds.
- A template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light.
- The taproot of young edible burdock plants (Arctium lappa), eaten as a root vegetable.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To draw through an eye or aperture.
- To card wool or other fibres.
- To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
- To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
- simple past tense of rive
- simple past tense of reeve
- To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
- To roam or wander through.
- To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
noun
verb
- To illuminate.
- To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
- To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
- To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
- To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
- To emit rays or waves.
- to spread into new habitats, migrate.
adj
- Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
- Having radial symmetry, like a seastar.
- Belonging to the Radiata.
- Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
- Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
- Consisting of a disc in which the florets are tubular.
noun
verb
- To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
- To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- To ring or sound with many echos.
- To rebound or recoil.
- To have a lasting effect.
- To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- To repeatedly return.
- To fuse by reverberated heat.
adj
noun
verb
- To wear an oversize top with skintight thigh-high boots and no leggings.
- To design or create lampshades.
- To intentionally call attention to the improbable, incongruent, or clichéd nature of an element or situation featured in a work of fiction within the work itself.
- To adorn with one or more lampshades.
verb
- To see; to spy.
- To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
- Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- To stand out, or be prominent.
- To peep; to look narrowly.
- To go on a drinking binge.
- To snort (a recreational drug).
- To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
- To flatulate.
- To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).
noun
verb
- To reflect, mirror.
- To create an image of.
- To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
- To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
noun
- A statue or idol.
- What a function maps to.
- A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
- An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
verb
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
noun
- any device serving as a source of illumination
- (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- a particular perspective or aspect of a situation
- the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
- an illuminated area
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- a person regarded very fondly
- having abundant light or illumination
- mental understanding as an enlightening experience
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
- public awareness
- a visual warning signal
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
adj
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- demanding little effort; not burdensome
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- very thin and insubstantial
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- having little importance
- intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
- silly or trivial
- designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
- having relatively few calories
- (of sleep) easily disturbed
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
verb
- introduce light into
- begin to smoke
- to come to rest, settle
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- alight from (a horse)
- start or maintain a fire in
adv
adj
- of comparatively little physical weight or density
- (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
- of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
- not great in degree or quantity or number
- psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
- characterized by or emitting light
- of little intensity or power or force
- (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
verb
- To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
- To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
- To expose to daylight
- To gain exposure to the open.
- To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
noun
- A light source that simulates daylight.
- The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
- A clear, open space.
- Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
- Exposure to public scrutiny.
- The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight.
- The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.
- Daybreak.
- The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
- The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
verb
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
noun
- Something that blinds.
- A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
- An exceptional performance.
- A bout of heavy drinking, a bender.
- A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
- A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
verb
verb
noun
- Illumination directed at the performers or subject matter from opposite sides of the set.
- Light that results from multiple sources and different directions.
- Light that comes from the side, causing shadows that can obscure objects of view or create strong contrasts.
- One of differing points of view.
- A traffic light intended principally to allow pedestrian or other traffic from a lesser roadway to cross a busier roadway.
- Multiple perspectives or points of view.
noun
- An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.
- A light purple or violet colour.
- Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens.
- A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).
- The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.
- A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.
adj
verb
- To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- To use a gouge.
noun
- Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- An impostor.
- Information.
- An act of gouging.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
verb
- To reflect, as in a mirror.
- Of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to; to be a copy of.
- To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).
noun
- An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
- A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.
- A mirror carp.
- A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
- A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
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