chock
trig
scoat
instop
clasp
stop
cork
upbar
hank
stick
bung
cleat
bight
ho
key
preen
bode
plug
stopple
bind
bend
trace
put the kibosh on
rolling hitch
corked up
obturate
balk
fastening
fastness
latch
belay
hurry
tampoon
swiften
chain
hotfoot it
cotter
pushpin
kick out
scotcher
turn up
leash
thrap
rope
hook
dit
shoot
clamp
strapping
put one's foot down
seize
reblock
affrettando
peg
check
peg down
buckle
goose
chorus
mend
stop short
pin
clinch
pelt
bladepoint
Scotch boiler
hold it
shift
buckle up
rebuckle
allegro
fastener
accelerate
T-stop
hasten
mosey
clutchback
merry
brisk
snappy
lively
barring
spanking
secure
rattling
zippy
hooking
alert
gib
stem the tide
chin-up bar
A.
stopper
estop
torrent
scuttle
corked up
allegro
accelerate
merry
brisk
snappy
lively
spanking
rattling
zippy
alert
A.
torrent
affrettando
ho
bode
stopple
trace
rolling hitch
fastening
fastness
latch
tampoon
scotcher
hank
strapping
chorus
trig
pelt
bladepoint
Scotch boiler
fastener
T-stop
clutchback
barring
hooking
chin-up bar
stopper
scuttle
chock
trig
scoat
instop
clasp
stop
cork
upbar
hank
stick
bung
cleat
bight
key
preen
plug
bind
bend
put the kibosh on
obturate
balk
belay
hurry
swiften
chain
hotfoot it
cotter
pushpin
kick out
turn up
leash
thrap
rope
hook
dit
shoot
clamp
put one's foot down
seize
reblock
peg
check
peg down
buckle
goose
mend
stop short
pin
clinch
latch
hold it
shift
buckle up
rebuckle
hasten
mosey
secure
gib
stem the tide
estop
verb
- To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
- To make a dull sound.
- To insert a line in a chock.
noun
- Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
- Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
adv
verb
- To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
- To fill; to stuff; to cram.
noun
- A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
- A trigonometric point; a trig point.
- The mark for players at skittles, etc.
- A dandy; coxcomb.
- Trigonometry.
- Triglyceride.
adj
verb
verb
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- To close or block an opening.
- Not to continue.
noun
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
punct
verb
- To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- To perform such a maneuver.
- To fill with cork.
- To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
- To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
noun
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
adj
verb
noun
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- Doubt, difficulty.
- Mess, tangle.
- A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
verb
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- put, fix, force, or implant
- stay put (in a certain place)
- stick to firmly
- be or become fixed
- endure
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- be loyal to
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- be a mystery or bewildering to
noun
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- informal terms for the leg
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- threat of a penalty
verb
noun
- A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
- A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
- An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.
- A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
- A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
verb
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
adj
noun
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- A keystone.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
verb
- To pin; fasten.
- To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- To trim up, as trees.
- To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- To flatter.
- To comb; to make orderly.
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
- To show off, posture, or smarm.
noun
verb
- To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- To persist or continue with something.
- To ingest a drug rectally
- To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
- To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
- To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
noun
- A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
- A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- A high, tapering silk hat.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- A drug dealer.
- A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- A worthless horse.
- A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
verb
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
- stick to firmly
- create social or emotional ties
- wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
- secure with or as if with ropes
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- provide with a binding
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- form a chemical bond with
- cause to be constipated
noun
verb
- To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- To stoop.
- To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- To cause to change direction.
- To change direction.
- To force to submit.
- To submit.
- To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- To apply to a task or purpose.
- To become curved.
- To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- To be inclined; to direct itself.
- To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- A curve.
- The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
noun
- A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- The ground plan of a work or works.
- The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- A residue of some substance or material.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- A very small amount.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
verb
- To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
verb
- To stop, check, block.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
noun
- Something used to fasten or tie; a fastener or fastening.
- The ability of a dye to withstand fading.
- A fortified or secure place; a fortress, a stronghold.
- The quality or state of moving quickly; quickness, rapidity, swiftness.
- The quality or state of being strongly attached; firmness, secureness, tenacity.
- The quality or state of having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
verb
- To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
- Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
- To cause to be done quickly.
- To do things quickly.
- To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
- To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
noun
verb
- To fasten something with a chain.
- To link multiple items together.
- To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- To obligate.
- To secure someone with fetters.
- To load and automatically run (a program).
- To be chained to another data item.
noun
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A long measuring tape.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- The warp threads of a web.
- A series of interconnected things.
noun
verb
- To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
- To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
- To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
- To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
verb
verb
- fasten with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- take by theft
- make off with belongings of others
- hit with a hook
- catch with a hook
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
noun
- a catch for locking a door
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
verb
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To grow; to advance.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
intj
verb
- To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
- To hold or grip tightly.
- To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
- To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
noun
- An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
- A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
- A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
- A pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet.
- A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
- A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
verb
- To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- To have a seizure.
- To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
verb
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- succeed in obtaining a position
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
noun
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
verb
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To mark with a check pattern.
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
adj
verb
- To fasten using a buckle.
- To buckle down; to apply oneself.
- To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
- To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
- To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
- To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
- To unite in marriage.
noun
- A contorted expression, as of the face.
- A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
- A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
- An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
- The brisure of an eighth daughter.
- A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
- A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
verb
- To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
- To stimulate; to spur.
- To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks of (a person).
- Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
- To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
noun
- Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
- An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
- The flesh of the goose used as food.
- A silly person.
- A female goose (sense 1).
noun
- A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
- The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
- A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- A song performed by the singers of such a group.
- An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
- A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
- The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
- A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
- A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
- A group of people in a performance who recite together.
- An instance of singing by a group of people.
- The opinion expressed by such a group.
- A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
- The noise or sound made by such a group.
- A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
- A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
- A part of a song which is repeated between verses; a refrain.
verb
- To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
- To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
- To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
- To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
- To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
- Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
- To echo in unison another person's words.
verb
- attach or fasten with pins
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- pierce with a pin
- (chess) immobilize a piece
noun
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
noun
- An act of moving quickly; a rush.
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
- The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
- The fur or hair of a living animal.
- The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
- Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
- A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
- Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
verb
- Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
- Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
- To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
- To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
- To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
- Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
- To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
- Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
- To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
- To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
verb
- To hurry; to move quickly.
- To change position.
- To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
- In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- To dispose of.
- To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- To remove the first value from an array.
- To change gears (in a car).
- To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.
- To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- To change in form or character; switch.
- To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
- To engage in sexual petting.
noun
- In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- The act of kissing passionately.
- A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- A bit shift.
- The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An infield shift.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
adj
verb
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- Grow; increase.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
verb
- To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
- To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
adj
- Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
- Free from attack or danger; protected.
- Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
- Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
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- avancé (fast)
- amphibious
- Asian
- asked
- Australian
- arterial
- alto
- auxiliary
- adjusted
- asymmetric
- accepted
- astragal
- anterior
- American
- arctic
- approved
- atomic
- Absolute
- absent
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noun
- apprentice
- absorbance; absorbancy
- accusative case
- amphibian
- attack
- August
- author
- automobile
- application
- Amos, the book of
- adjutant
- accumulator
- acre; acres
- Angstrom
- ana; anna
- April
- anode
- answer
- artificer
- air branch
- atomic weight
- associate; association
- academy; academician
- age; aged
- airman
- assault, as on a badge
- air
- administration
- admiral
- alfa
- amateur
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- Artillery
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- address
- adult
- acid
- aircraft; airplane
- article
- Atlantic
- arctic
- army
- accommodation
- America; Americanization
- ambassador
- alto
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noun
- A bung or cork.
- Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- A short rope for making something fast.
- Goalkeeper.
- A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
verb
noun
- A quick pace; a short run.
- A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
- A broad, shallow basket.
- A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
- A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
verb
- To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
- To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
- To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
- To move hastily, to scurry.
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