tenter
bunch
draped
pull on
bias
swag
fabric
figure loom
figured-fabric loom
WOF
block
curtain
mantle
pall
drapery
drape
bias tape
blouse
woven
hap
clothy
gather
clothlike
gambroon
tartan
garment
plaid
tissue
perch
undercloth
undraw
plaiding
fell
everlasting
burl
desize
spheno-
sequel
charpie
jersey
festoon
gusset
spandex
clotheshorse
tie-dyeing
laundry stiffener
fabric stiffener
broadloom
thrummed
understitch
inweave
line
waulking
jacquard
high-warp loom
tack
tentering
doek
barras
weft
low-warp-loom
tuck
crab
quill
slash
material
sanforization
rumple
cover up
fell stitch
fag-end
habit
brace up
dress-goods
selvage
pink
osnaburg
railroad
elasticize
warp
selvedge
felled seam
hook
seamline
ajouré
cast
ikat
jeanette
sleever
bugle
mikado
draped
bias
clothy
clothlike
broadloom
thrummed
osnaburg
tenter
swag
figure loom
figured-fabric loom
WOF
curtain
mantle
pall
drapery
drape
bias tape
woven
gambroon
bias
tartan
plaid
tissue
perch
undercloth
plaiding
everlasting
sequel
charpie
jersey
festoon
gusset
spandex
clotheshorse
tie-dyeing
laundry stiffener
fabric stiffener
waulking
jacquard
high-warp loom
tack
tentering
doek
barras
weft
low-warp-loom
tuck
crab
material
sanforization
fell
fell stitch
fag-end
dress-goods
selvage
selvedge
felled seam
seamline
ajouré
ikat
jeanette
sleever
bugle
mikado
tenter
bunch
pull on
swag
fabric
block
blouse
hap
gather
garment
drape
undraw
fell
burl
desize
understitch
inweave
line
quill
slash
rumple
cover up
habit
brace up
pink
railroad
elasticize
warp
hook
cast
verb
- To gather fabric into folds.
- To be gathered together in folds
- To form a bunch.
- To protrude or swell
- To gather into a bunch.
noun
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
- An informal body of friends.
- A considerable amount.
- A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
- The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- An unmentioned amount; a number.
- An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
adj
noun
- The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- Inclination towards something.
- The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
adv
verb
verb
- To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
- To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
- To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
- To droop; to sag.
- To transport stolen goods.
- To (cause to) sway.
noun
- A loop of draped fabric.
- Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
- A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
- A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
- Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
- Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
- A large quantity (of something).
verb
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
noun
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- the cloak as a symbol of authority
- the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- anything that covers
- (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
- shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
- a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
verb
noun
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- a sudden numbing dread
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
verb
- become less interesting or attractive
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
- cover with a pall
- cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
- cause to become flat
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
verb
- To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- To haul in; to take up.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- To congregate, or assemble.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- To collect; normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To gain; to win.
- To be filled with pus
- To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
noun
- The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
noun
- Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
- A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
- The scratch sheet or racing form.
- Absorbent paper as material.
- A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
- Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
- A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
verb
noun
- A frame used to examine cloth.
- Acanthopagrus berda
- Kyphosus azureus
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
verb
noun
- A fabric lining, especially one that adheres to the cloth that shows.
- The lower of two cloths that together perform some function.
- A cloth that is used as a base surface for some type of work, including cases where it is incorporated into the work.
- A cloth that is placed beneath a saddle.
- Any of various undergarments made from a rectangular piece of cloth.
- A type of fabric intended to be used as an undercloth.
- A cloth on which a body rests as bedding.
- A tablecloth laid directly on the table, over which are placed other coverings such as an additional tablecloth that allows the undercloth to show through, or an additional tablecloth that completely covers the undercloth when it is used for stability or noise muffling, or simple mats that provide additional protection.
- A protective cloth that goes underneath something.
- A cloth used to bind the breasts.
- A cloth worn beneath a robe or other garment and that peeks out.
- A cloth used to cover the genitals.
noun
verb
- To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
- simple past tense of fall
- To strike down, kill, destroy.
- To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
adv
noun
- Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
- The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
- An animal skin, hide, pelt.
- A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
- A wild field or upland moor.
- A cutting-down of timber.
- The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
- The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
adj
noun
- Thirlage.
- A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
- The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
noun
- a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
- an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
- flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
verb
noun
- A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
- A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.
- A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
- A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
- An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
verb
verb
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
- cover the interior of
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- mark with lines
- fill plentifully
noun
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a telephone connection
- acting in conformity
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a short personal letter
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
noun
- A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
- A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
- A thumbtack.
- The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
verb
- To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To add something as an extra item.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- to tack (something) onto (something)
- To place the tack on a horse; often paired with "up".
noun
- A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- The beat of a drum.
- A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- A curled position.
- A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
verb
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- To eat; to consume.
- To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To full, as cloth.
- To fit neatly.
noun
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To back out of something.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
verb
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
- To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To pierce or be pierced with quills.
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To write.
noun
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- The pen of a squid.
- Any pen.
verb
- To create slashes in a garment.
- To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- To criticize cuttingly.
- To swing wildly at the ball.
- To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- To write slash fiction.
- To piss, to urinate.
- To work in wet conditions.
- To reduce sharply.
- To move quickly and violently.
- To strike violently and randomly
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
noun
- A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- A swampy area; a swamp.
- A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- Slash fiction.
- A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A piss: an act of urination.
- Female genitalia.
- A wild swinging strike of the bat.
- A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A sharp reduction.
- A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
- The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- Any similar wide striking motion.
- A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
conj
adv
noun
- Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric.
- All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard.
- Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
- The substance that something is made or composed of.
- Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
- Text written for a specific purpose.
- A sample or specimens for study.
- An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
- A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity.
adj
verb
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- To become pink in color, to redden.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- To turn (something) pink.
- To prick with a sword.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
adj
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- Having conjunctivitis.
- Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
noun
- The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
- The vagina or vulva.
verb
- To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
- To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
- To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
- To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
- To travel by railroad.
- To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
- To operate a railroad.
- To work for a railroad.
- To transport via railroad.
- To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
noun
- A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
- The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
- A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
- A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
verb
- To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- To move or be moved by this method.
- To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
noun
- The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
- The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
- The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
verb
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
- To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
- Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
- To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
- To throw.
- To throw down or aside.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
- To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- To remove, take off (clothes).
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
- To assign (a role in a play or performance).
- To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
noun
- Visual appearance.
- An object made in a mould.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- A squint.
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- The casting procedure.
- The mould used to make cast objects.
- A group of crabs.
- An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- An act of throwing.
adj
noun
- A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- A horn used by hunters.
- Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
- The sound of something that bugles.
verb
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