hade
underlay
gradient
hield
dispose
rise
tilt
uphill
ascend
slant
rake
shelvingly
verge
incliningly
tip
upright
lean
swerve
angle
unsloped
upsloping
banky
incline
basset
descent
downslope
declension
declivity
fall
declination
decline
slopy
acclivitous
traverse
rising
shelving
dip
climb
bank
plongée
yaw
canted
slopingness
descending
sheer
heel
get up
slopeways
erect
stay
declivous
brae
prone
supine
clino-
over
acclivity
upgang
steep
pull up
inclined
hill climb
atilt
ascending
downward
downward-sloping
downhill
cant
declivitous
sag
upgrade
raise
jump off
upbow
toboggan
ascent
breast
grading
precipitate
luge
leveling
dive
slope
turn upside down
shelve
upright
unsloped
upsloping
banky
uphill
slopy
acclivitous
rising
shelving
canted
descending
sheer
erect
declivous
prone
supine
steep
inclined
atilt
ascending
downward
downward-sloping
downhill
declivitous
precipitate
uphill
shelvingly
incliningly
slopeways
gradient
hield
slant
descent
downslope
declension
declivity
fall
declination
decline
bank
plongée
slopingness
tilt
brae
acclivity
upgang
cant
rise
incline
climb
upgrade
raise
ascent
downhill
grading
leveling
hade
underlay
dispose
rise
tilt
ascend
rake
verge
slant
tip
lean
swerve
angle
incline
basset
traverse
dip
climb
yaw
fall
heel
get up
stay
pull up
hill climb
bank
sag
jump off
upbow
toboggan
breast
luge
dive
slope
turn upside down
shelve
verb
- To incline from the vertical.
- To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
- To put a tap on (a shoe).
- simple past tense of underlie
- To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
noun
- A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
- Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
- Anything that is underlaid.
- A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
- A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
noun
- A slope or incline.
- The ratio of the rates of change of a dependent variable and an independent variable, the slope of a curve's tangent.
- A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction of the greatest rate of change of the scalar. Notation for a scalar field φ: ∇φ
- A gradual change in color. A color gradient; gradation.
- The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.
- A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
adj
verb
- To slope upward.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- To attain a higher status.
- To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To develop.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- To be resurrected.
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To move upwards.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
noun
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The height of an arch or a step.
verb
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To be at an angle.
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
- A slope or inclination.
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A tilt hammer.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
verb
- To slope in an upward direction.
- To become higher in pitch.
- To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- To succeed.
- To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.
- To go up.
- To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
noun
- A slope; an incline, inclination.
- A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
- A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
- A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
- A point of view, an angle.
- A look, a glance.
- An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
- A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
- A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
- A sloped surface or line.
- A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
- A sloping surface in a culture medium.
- Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
- An oblique movement or course.
adj
verb
verb
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
noun
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- An edge or border.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
- The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
verb
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
noun
adj
noun
- a downward slope or bend
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a movement downward
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
verb
- slope downward
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- come under, be classified or included
- fall from clouds
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- be captured
- occur at a specified time or place
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- yield to temptation or sin
- lose office or power
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- move in a specified direction
- be due
- lose one's chastity
- to be given by right or inheritance
- come into the possession of
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be inherited by
- lose an upright position suddenly
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- fall or flow in a certain way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- be cast down
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- begin vigorously
- go as if by falling
- come as if by falling
noun
- a downward slope or bend
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
- a polite refusal of an invitation
adj
verb
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
adj
adv
verb
- slope downwards
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- dip into a liquid while eating
- go down momentarily
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- take a small amount from
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- lower briefly
- appear to move downward
- dip into a liquid
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
noun
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a brief immersion
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief swim in water
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
noun
- An incline, a hill.
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- The ground at the top of a shaft.
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- Money; profit.
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- A device used to store coins or currency.
- An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
verb
- To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- To put into a bank.
- To arrange or order in a row.
- To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
verb
- To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
- To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- To swerve off course to port or starboard.
- To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
noun
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
verb
- To incline to one side; to tilt.
- To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
- To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
- To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
- To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
- To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
- To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
- To kick with the heel.
noun
- The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
- A woman's high-heeled shoe.
- Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
- The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
- The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
- The last or lowest part of anything.
- The short side of an angled cut.
- A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
- The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
- In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
- The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
- A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
- The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
- The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
- The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
- The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
- The back, upper part of the stock.
- The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
- The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
verb
- To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- To go towards the attacking goal.
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
- To bring together; to amass.
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To criticise.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- To annoy.
adj
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- Having an erect penis.
- Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
- Watchful; alert.
- Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
verb
- To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- To spin up and align to vertical.
- To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
- To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
- To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- To enter a state of physiological erection.
- To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- To cause to stand up or out.
- To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
verb
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To live; reside
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adv
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adj
noun
adj
- Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.
- Lying on its back.
- turned facing toward the body; with the thumb outward or the big toe upward.
- Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
noun
- In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
- In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
- (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.
prefix
prep
- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
- Concerning or regarding.
- More than; to a greater degree.
- Across or spanning.
- Indicating relative status, authority, or power
- Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
- Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
- In such a way as to cover.
- As compared to.
- Divided by.
- On top of; above; higher than; further up.
- Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far.
- Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
- While using, especially while consuming.
noun
intj
adv
- To an excessive degree; overly.
- From one side of something to another, passing above it.
- Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- From one position or state to another.
- Overnight (throughout the night).
- Again; another time; once more; over again.
- Horizontally; left to right or right to left.
adj
adj
- Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
- expensive
- resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular
noun
- A rennet bag.
- The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.
- A liquid used in a steeping process
verb
verb
- To lift upwards or vertically.
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- To cause (a person) to stop.
- To pull forward.
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
noun
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- An outer or external angle.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- A corner (of a building).
- A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A parcel, a division.
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
adj
verb
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To set (something) at an angle.
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
verb
- To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
- To cause to bend or give way; to load.
- To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
- To pull down someone else's pants.
- To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
- To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
- To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
noun
noun
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- a reservation that is improved
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)
verb
noun
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- the amount a salary is increased
- increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)
- the act of raising something
verb
- raise the level or amount of something
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- move upwards
- construct, build, or erect
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- raise in rank or condition
- increase the level of
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- activate or stir up
- establish radio communications with
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- invigorate or heighten
- put an end to
- cause to become alive again
verb
- To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.
- To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object.
- To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.
noun
- A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills.
- Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
- A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
- A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.
verb
- To reach the top (of a hill).
- To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
- To debreast.
noun
- Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
- The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- The front or forward part of anything.
- The face of a coal working.
- The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
- The front of a furnace.
- The breaststroke.
adj
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
- Very steep; precipitous.
verb
- To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To throw an object or person from a great height.
- To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
- To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- To fall headlong.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To swim under water.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- To jump into water head-first.
noun
verb
- To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
- To try to move surreptitiously.
- To tend steadily upward or downward.
- To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
noun
- The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
- The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
- The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
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