scoon
hydroplane
paddle
bottom out
afloat
ship
skite
swim
kite
superfluent
ooch
head sea
square
sailing
stern
pay off
natantly
drop down
fall down
saily
touch and go
foot
weather roll
cranky
tippy
crank
centreboard
flying jib
splash down
tack
aquadynamically
tender
inflatable
aeronaval
row
feather
weather
overboard
spout
waterborne
splashdown
boottopping
prone out
crab
splat
ratch
loxodromics
helix
bring to
adrift
demersal
blister
blanketing
sternway
overrake
jib
boatwise
back water
anchor
floating
stabilizer
natation
float
hover
overside
luff up
hydrofoil craft
boating
raft
tea-bag
dinghy
swimmingly
aquatically
swill
skurf
beam
logrolling
air cushion
extrovert
planktonic
bob
ferry
flat
slosh
Istiophorus albicans
pontoon
Atlantic sailfish
birling
midship
paddleboarding
backwash
launch
yaw
superfluent
afloat
saily
cranky
tippy
crank
tender
aeronaval
waterborne
adrift
demersal
planktonic
midship
afloat
natantly
aquadynamically
overboard
boatwise
overside
swimmingly
aquatically
flat
head sea
sailing
foot
weather roll
centreboard
flying jib
tack
inflatable
feather
splashdown
boottopping
crab
splat
loxodromics
helix
blanketing
sternway
anchor
floating
stabilizer
natation
hydrofoil craft
boating
raft
dinghy
beam
logrolling
air cushion
Istiophorus albicans
pontoon
Atlantic sailfish
birling
paddleboarding
backwash
scoon
hydroplane
paddle
bottom out
ship
skite
swim
kite
ooch
square
stern
pay off
drop down
fall down
touch and go
splash down
row
weather
spout
prone out
ratch
bring to
blister
overrake
jib
back water
float
hover
luff up
tea-bag
swill
skurf
overboard
extrovert
bob
ferry
slosh
launch
yaw
raft
verb
- To skim the surface of a body of water while moving at high speed.
- For a car or similar vehicle to slide along the road on a thin film of water between the road and the tyres. This occurs when a car has some speed and comes to somewhere with more water on the road than the weight of the car and the grooves in the tyre tread pattern (if any) can push away. The result is almost no traction at all for steering or braking.
noun
verb
- To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- To toddle.
- To spank with a paddle.
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- To tread upon; to trample.
- To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- To dog paddle in water.
noun
- The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.
- A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.
- A broad, flat spanking implement.
- A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.
- A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.
- A person's hand.
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- A paddlewheel.
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.
- A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
adv
- In a vessel at sea or on another body of water.
- Floating.
- Covered with water (bearing floating objects).
- Floating in the air; flowing freely; not tied, braided, etc.
- Having enough money to continue to operate; (of a private individual, family, etc.) able to pay one's expenses, able to keep one's head above water.
- Covered, overspread (with or in something).
verb
- To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- To trade or send a player to another team.
- To pass (from one person to another).
- To go all in.
- Leave, depart, scram.
- To send by water-borne transport.
- To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
- To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- To embark on a ship.
- To put or secure in its place.
- To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
- To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
noun
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
- A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
- The third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
verb
- To deflect sideways in the water.
- To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- To move rapidly; to rush.
- To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- To steal.
- To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
noun
- A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- An aeroplane or aircraft.
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- The stomach; the belly.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- A rapacious person.
- A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
verb
- To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth.
- To move in a small or restricted space; squirm or squeeze.
- To quietly force to move without drama or noticeable disruption.
- To progress or change a little bit or in small increments.
- To exceed a limit by a small amount.
- To move or slide a small amount; scoot; scooch.
- To cry out in pain or discomfort.
- To work toward a goal by using small low-risk steps.
noun
- An act of forcing the boat forward by rocking one's body.
- A small, low-risk step toward a goal.
- Something that causes pain or discomfort.
- A small amount by which something has moved or changed.
intj
verb
- To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To hold a quartile position respecting.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
- To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
adv
noun
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
- A cell in a grid.
- The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
- The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- Cigarette.
- The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- A mortarboard.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A vat used for fermentation.
- A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
adj
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- Even; tied
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- Socially conventional; boring.
- Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
adj
noun
- The bottom edge of a sail.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- Travel by walking.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- The globular lower domain of a protein.
- The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- Foot soldiers; infantry.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
verb
noun
- sailing a zigzag course
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
verb
adj
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- hurting
- young and immature
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
verb
- offer or present for acceptance
- propose a payment
- make a tender of; in legal settlements
- make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
adj
verb
- To be moved by oars.
- To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
- To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
- To argue noisily.
noun
- A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
- A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
- An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
- A noisy argument.
- An act or instance of rowing.
- A continual loud noise.
noun
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
verb
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- To tread, as a cockerel.
- To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- To move softly, like a feather.
verb
- To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
- To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
- To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
- To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
- To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
noun
- The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
- Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
- The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
- A situation.
adj
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noun
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To back out of something.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
noun
- A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
- The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
- The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
- The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
- The asterisk *
- The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
- The hash symbol #
- A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
verb
noun
- An upside down midair 360° spin in playboating.
- A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase.
- A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital.
- The incurved rim of the external ear.
verb
verb
- To sear after blaching.
- To break out in blisters.
- To raise blisters on.
- To have a blister form.
- To criticise severely.
noun
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
- An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula.
- A cause of annoyance.
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
- A swelling on a plant.
- Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
noun
- A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
- The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
- Cloth for making blankets.
- A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
- Provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
verb
- To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
- To stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse).
- To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity.
noun
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- Crystal meth.
- The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
noun
- A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
- A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
- The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
- That which gives stability or security.
- A screw anchor.
- Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
- One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
- The brake of a vehicle.
- A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
- A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
- A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
- An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
- The final runner in a relay race.
- An anchorman or anchorwoman.
- Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
- Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it.
- A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
- An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
- An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
- For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
verb
- To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- To circulate.
- To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
- To be capable of floating.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
- To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- To move in a fluid manner.
- To drift gently through the air.
- To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
- To drift or wander aimlessly.
- To extend a short-term loan to.
- To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- To perform a float.
- To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
noun
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- A float board.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
- Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
- A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
- The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- A lowboy trailer.
- Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
verb
- To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
- To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- To remain stationary or float in the air.
- To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
- Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
noun
- An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
- A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
- A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
- An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
noun
- A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
- A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
- A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
- Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
- A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
- A slice of toast.
- A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
- A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
verb
noun
- The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
- One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
- A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
- The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
- One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
- The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
- Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- The pole of a carriage or chariot.
- A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
- In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
- A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
- The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
- The straight part or shank of an anchor.
- A ray; a gleam.
- An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
- The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
verb
- To put (something) on a beam.
- To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
- To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
- To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
- To furnish or supply with beams.
- To give the appearance of beams to.
- To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
- To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
- To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
verb
- To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- To bobsleigh.
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- To curtsy.
- 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.
noun
- 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.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- 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 pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
- To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
- To carry; transport; convey.
- To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
noun
adv
adj
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
adj
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having lost effervescence
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- horizontally level
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- commercially inactive
noun
- a level tract of land
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
noun
noun
- A flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage.
- A lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships.
- A bridge with floating supports.
- A float of a seaplane.
- A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.
- A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
noun
noun
- The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
- The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
- The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
- The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
- The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
verb
verb
- 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 start to operate.
- 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
- To swerve off course to port or starboard.
- To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
- To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
noun
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
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