buckle to
set to work
hustle
yakka
roll up one's sleeves
launch
start up
position
commission
slate
sked
endizen
labour
forework
down to
run hot
operationalize
work
to
get on to
flow
open its doors
go
engage
assemble
go to work
fire up
chapter
act
yark
come on to
turn on
rostered on
get one's finger out
preparedness
fit
moil
open the ball
prep
preplace
slave
click into gear
graft
foreready
put one's hand to the plough
constitute
sweat
under weigh
following
found
beaver
play by the rules
presettable
coact
befitting
depin
start
marshal
get the show on the road
running
she's apples
inaugurally
primed
summon
release
foredispose
mobilize
config
look to
commenceable
plant
arrange
pitch
mobilise
command
operate
set forth
resolve
fast
get one's arse in gear
take it
do one's job
preset
ready up
boun
tee up
plan
go on
schedulable
cut out
muck in
graith
paint the wagon
fettle
sure-fire
exec
go
rostered on
following
presettable
befitting
primed
commenceable
fast
schedulable
sure-fire
under weigh
inaugurally
fast
commission
sked
preparedness
running
command
buckle to
set to work
hustle
yakka
roll up one's sleeves
launch
start up
position
slate
sked
endizen
labour
forework
run hot
operationalize
work
get on to
flow
open its doors
engage
assemble
go to work
fire up
chapter
act
yark
come on to
turn on
get one's finger out
fit
moil
open the ball
prep
preplace
slave
click into gear
graft
foreready
put one's hand to the plough
constitute
sweat
found
beaver
play by the rules
coact
depin
start
marshal
get the show on the road
summon
release
foredispose
mobilize
config
look to
plant
arrange
pitch
mobilise
operate
set forth
resolve
get one's arse in gear
take it
do one's job
preset
ready up
boun
tee up
plan
go on
cut out
muck in
graith
paint the wagon
fettle
exec
verb
verb
- To work.
- To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
- To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To rush or hurry.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
noun
verb
- To start to operate.
- To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
- To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- To release; to put onto the market for sale
- To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
noun
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
- An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
- The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
verb
noun
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
noun
- the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- a special group delegated to consider some matter
- a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
- the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- a group of representatives or delegates
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- the act of committing a crime
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
verb
verb
- To schedule.
- To cover with slate.
- To criticise harshly.
- To set a dog upon (a person).
- To anticipate or strongly expect.
- To nominate, appoint, or designate.
adj
noun
- An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
- A list of affiliated candidates for an election.
- A record of money owed.
- A tablet computer.
- A thin plate of any material; a flake.
- A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- The bluish-grey colour of most slate.
- A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.
- A roofing-tile made of slate.
verb
verb
- To toil, to work.
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
noun
- Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- The act of a mother giving birth.
- Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- A group of moles.
- The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
verb
- To set into action.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
particle
- In order to.
- Used to indicate an obligation on the part of, or a directive given to, the subject.
- As above, with the verb implied.
- A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
prep
- Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
- Used to indicate result of action.
- Used to indicate a ratio or comparison; compared to, as against.
- Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
- At.
- Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
- Preceding the next hour.
- Indicating destination: In the direction of, so as to arrive at.
- Denotes the end of a range.
- Often used without the hour
- Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
- according to
- Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.
adv
verb
- To proceed; to issue forth.
- To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- To hang loosely and wave.
- To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- To allow (a liquid) to flow.
- To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
- To cover with varnish.
noun
- The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
- A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- A morass or marsh.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- Smoothness or continuity.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
verb
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
verb
- To come into gear with.
- To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
- To draw into conversation.
- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- To enter into battle.
verb
- To take to task.
- To put into a chapter.
- To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- To divide into chapters.
noun
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A chapter house
- A bishop's council.
- One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
verb
- To do something.
- Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- To perform a theatrical role.
- To play (a role).
- To convey an appearance of being.
- To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
- To feign.
- To have an effect (on).
- To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
noun
- A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A display of behaviour.
- A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- A division of a theatrical performance.
- Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- Any organized activity.
- A performer or performers in a show.
- A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- Something done, a deed.
verb
- To start operating; to power up, to become on.
- To aim at.
- To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject.
- To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
- To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).
- To take drugs.
- To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
- To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
- To violently rebel against; to suddenly attack.
- To sexually arouse.
verb
- To make ready.
- To be proper or becoming.
- To be suitable for.
- To conform to in size and shape.
- To be in harmony.
- To suffer a fit.
- To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
- To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
- To be of the right size and shape
- To be in agreement with.
- To adjust.
- To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
- To make conform in size and shape.
- To equip or supply.
noun
- Conformity of elements one to another.
- The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
- An outfit, a set of clothing.
- A sudden burst (of an activity).
- A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
- The degree to which something fits.
- Goodness of fit.
- The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
- Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
- A seizure or convulsion.
- A sudden outburst of emotion.
adj
verb
noun
- The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
- A spot; a defilement.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
verb
noun
- A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
- A prep school.
- preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
- Preparation.
- Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.
verb
verb
- To work hard.
- To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
- To place a device under the control of another.
noun
- A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
- An abject person.
- A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
- A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
- A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
- A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
- One who has no power of resistance (to something), one who surrenders to or is under the domination (of something).
verb
- To work hard.
- To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- To form a graft polymer
- To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
noun
- A cut of the take (money).
- A job or trade.
- A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- A con job.
- A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- Corruption in official life.
- A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- Work; labor requiring effort.
verb
- To work hard.
- To stress out.
- To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To emit sweat.
- To worry about (something).
- To cause to perspire.
- To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
- To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
- To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- To emit moisture.
- To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
- To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- To worry.
- To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
noun
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
- Hard work; toil.
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- An extremely competitive player.
- The sweating sickness.
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
adv
verb
- To work hard.
- To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
noun
- A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- The fur of the beaver.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
- A beard or a bearded person.
- A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
verb
adj
verb
- To set in motion.
- To put into play.
- To begin.
- To flinch or draw back.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
noun
- the state of being in operation
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- the act of administering or being in charge of something
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
adj
- (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
- of advancing the ball by running
- executed or initiated by running
adj
verb
- To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
- To set free a chemical substance.
- To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- To make available to the public.
- To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- To free or liberate; to set free.
- (of a call) To hang up.
- To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
- to come out; be out.
- To discharge.
- To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
noun
- The act or manner of ending a sound.
- In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
- Orgasm.
- A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
- The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
verb
- To set up; to install; to instate.
- To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- To furnish or supply with plants.
- To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- To place in the ground.
noun
- Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
- A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- The combination of process and actuator.
- A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
verb
- To set or fix.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
noun
- An order to do something.
- power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
- A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
- The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
- Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
- A command performance.
- A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
- A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
- The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
- The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
verb
- To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
- To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
- to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
- To hold, to control the use of.
- To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
- To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
verb
- To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
- To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
- To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
- To produce, as an effect; to cause.
- To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
verb
- To make a firm decision to do something.
- To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- To find a solution to (a problem).
- To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
- To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
- To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
- To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
- To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
- To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
- To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
- To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
- To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
noun
adv
- Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
- Deeply or soundly .
- In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound .
- Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
- Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .
adj
- Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
- Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.
- Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
- Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
- Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)
- Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
- Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
- Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
- Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything).
- Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
- More sensitive to light than average.
intj
verb
- (academic) To cause a person or animal to abstain, especially from eating.
- To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.
- To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
noun
verb
noun
- A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
- A subscription to a service.
- A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
- A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
- A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
verb
- To arrange or prepare.
- To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- To intercept.
- To remove, omit.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
- To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
- To oust, to replace.
- To separate from a herd.
- To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- To leave suddenly.
adj
verb
verb
- To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
- To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
- To be upset or in a bad mood.
- In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
noun
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