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noun
- An instance of sniffing.
- A brief perception, or tiny amount.
- Cocaine.
- A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose.
verb
- To perceive vaguely.
- To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.
- To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.
- To say (something) while sniffing, such as in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.
- To pry; to investigate in an interfering manner.
- To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
- To be dismissive or contemptuous of something.
intj
verb
noun
adj
verb
- To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- To make equal in rank.
- To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
noun
- Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- A look; a glance.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an instance of searching for something
- an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
verb
verb
- To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
verb
- To search by sense of touch.
- To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- To be or become aware of.
- To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- To understand.
- To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- To experience the consequences of.
- To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
noun
verb
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
noun
- An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A fortified position for a weapon.
verb
- To search through (thoroughly).
- 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 cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- 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.
noun
- One who searches.
- An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
- An officer who apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland.
- A customs officer responsible for searching ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
- An inspector of leather.
- A sieve or strainer.
- An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
- An implement for sampling butter.
- An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
verb
noun
- An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
- A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
- An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
- Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
- Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
- An eraser.
- One who practises massage.
- A condom.
- The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
- One who rubs down horses.
- Tires, particularly racing tires.
- Someone or something which rubs.
- A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
- The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
- The cushion of an electric machine.
- Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
- The game of rubber bridge.
adj
verb
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- poke or thrust abruptly
- stir by poking
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- make a hole by poking
noun
- tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
verb
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- advance the forward part of with caution
- catch the scent of; get wind of
- push or move with the nose
- rub noses
- defeat by a narrow margin
noun
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
- a small distance
- a symbol of inquisitiveness
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- a natural skill
- a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
verb
- To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- To use as bait when fishing.
- To hoist the flukes of.
- To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
noun
- A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- A woman.
- The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A male homosexual; a gay man.
- An easy victim for swindling.
- A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
- Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
- A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
- Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
- Cod; codfish.
- Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
- A period of time spent fishing.
- A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- An instance of seeking something.
verb
- To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To turn up or dig with the snout.
- Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- To root out; to abolish.
- To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
noun
- The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- A sexual partner.
- The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- A zero (of an equation).
- The primary source; origin.
- The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- A penis, especially the base of a penis.
verb
- To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- To read with an electronic device.
- To look about for; to look over quickly.
- To conform to a metrical structure.
- To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
noun
noun
- An inspection of an object using the sense of smell, as for freshness of food.
- An inspection of the nasal passages or a trial of their function, as for breathing difficulties.
- An informal method for determining whether something is authentic, credible, or ethical, by using one's common sense or sense of propriety.
verb
- To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
- To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
verb
noun
- A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
- A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- An investigation or inquiry.
- a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
- Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
noun
- An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
- Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
- A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
- An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
- A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- Discussion of business or professional affairs.
verb
- To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
- To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
- To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
- To imprison.
verb
- To search for, to try to find.
- As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
- To make sure of, to see to.
- To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
- To give an appearance of being.
- To express or manifest by a look.
- To face or present a view.
- To expect or anticipate.
- As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
- To appear, to seem.
noun
- A facial expression.
- Physical appearance, visual impression.
- The action of looking; an attempt to see.
intj
verb
- To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
- To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
- To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
- To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
- To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
- To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
noun
verb
- To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
- To jerk sharply and briefly.
- To cause to twitch; spasm.
- To perform a twitch; spasm.
noun
- A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
- A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
- The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
- A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
- couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
verb
- To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
- To act as a spy.
- To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- To spot; to catch sight of.
noun
- A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
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