moat
moated
rundel
moatlike
berm
work
escarp
vallum
fosse
periaqueductally
emmantle
batardeau
spur
hold
gatepier
parapeted
chamber gate
circumvallate
parapetted
gutter
lee
hood
argic
postern
gate
footbank
strongpoint
pound
caponier
forewall
murder hole
breastwork
wall
demilune
citadel
causewayed
fort
bridgehead
quayside
fortify
garage
extracelomic
lockage
enceinte
puteal
barrier
bastion
fastness
moon
ribauldequin
postfortification
staircase
supraumbilical
lunette
bar
lith
graffage
ravelin
scupper
grain
fence off
tenaille
priestcap
wellside
redoubt
parapet
tailgate
embowerment
steeple
rook
castlewise
defilade
pincer gate
by-wash
sept
quoin post
outgate
fence
run through
munition
stakewall
double-decker
stablewards
fencing
stone wall
bailey
star fort
pierwise
barricade
chain pier
fortification
bulwark
palisade
headstone
fence in
rampart
brink
moated
moatlike
parapeted
parapetted
argic
causewayed
extracelomic
postfortification
supraumbilical
periaqueductally
castlewise
stablewards
pierwise
rundel
berm
work
escarp
vallum
fosse
batardeau
spur
hold
gatepier
chamber gate
gutter
lee
hood
postern
footbank
strongpoint
pound
caponier
forewall
murder hole
breastwork
wall
demilune
citadel
bridgehead
quayside
garage
lockage
enceinte
puteal
barrier
bastion
fastness
moon
ribauldequin
staircase
lunette
bar
lith
graffage
ravelin
scupper
grain
tenaille
priestcap
wellside
parapet
tailgate
embowerment
steeple
rook
defilade
pincer gate
by-wash
sept
quoin post
outgate
fence
munition
stakewall
double-decker
fencing
stone wall
bailey
star fort
barricade
chain pier
fortification
bulwark
palisade
headstone
rampart
brink
moat
emmantle
circumvallate
gate
fort
fortify
fence off
redoubt
run through
fence in
verb
noun
- A clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
- An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, because of the nature of its products, services or franchise or for some other reason.
- A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
- A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
noun
- A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
- A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
- A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
- A terrace formed by wave action along a beach.
- A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- Edge of a road.
- A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
verb
noun
- A fortification.
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
noun
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A tern.
- A branch of a vein.
- A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- Roots, tree roots.
- A very short branch line of a railway line.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- The short wooden buttress of a post.
- A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
verb
noun
- a stronghold
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- time during which some action is awaited
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
verb
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- organize or be responsible for
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- contain or hold; have within
- have room for; hold without crowding
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be valid, applicable, or true
- assert or affirm
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- protect against a challenge or attack
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- hold the attention of
- remain committed to
- resist or confront with resistance
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- stop dealing with
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- keep from departing
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- aim, point, or direct
- declare to be
- be in accord; be in agreement
- keep from exhaling or expelling
noun
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- A space between printed columns of text.
- An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A drainage channel.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
- A low, vulgar state.
- The spaces between comic book panels.
- One who or that which guts.
verb
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- To supply with a gutter or gutters.
noun
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
- Person wearing a hoodie.
- A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
- One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
- In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
- A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
- The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- Gangster, thug.
- A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- Neighborhood.
adj
verb
verb
- To furnish with a gate.
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- To open a closed ion channel.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
noun
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- Movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A way, path.
noun
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- The symbol # (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- a division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine
- The translated name of various non-English units of measure
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
- The translated name of various non-English units of currency
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- The people who work for the pound.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
verb
- To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- To eat or drink very quickly.
- To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- To beat strongly or throb.
- To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
noun
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a difficult or awkward situation
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a layer of material that encloses space
verb
noun
- A fortification around the end of a bridge.
- An area around the end of a bridge.
- An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
- Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms
noun
- A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
- A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
- A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
- A petrol filling station.
- A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
verb
noun
- A structure that bars passage.
- A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The lists in a tournament.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
- A fortified or secure place; a fortress, a stronghold.
- The ability of a dye to withstand fading.
- The quality or state of moving quickly; quickness, rapidity, swiftness.
- Something used to fasten or tie; a fastener or fastening.
- The quality or state of being strongly attached; firmness, secureness, tenacity.
- The quality or state of having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
noun
- A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
- A month, particularly a lunar month.
- A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.
- Any natural satellite of a planet.
- The thirty-second Lenormand card.
- In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
- The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
verb
- To rise in price rapidly or suddenly.
- To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
- To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.
- To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
- (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
- To expose to the rays of the Moon.
- To shoot the moon.
- To adorn with moons or crescents.
noun
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- One of those musical sections.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
prep
- Except, other than, besides.
- Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
verb
noun
- A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
- Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- A single particle of a substance.
- The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- A single seed of grass food crops.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- The crops from which grain is harvested.
- A linear texture of a material or surface.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
verb
- To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- To soften leather.
- To make granular; to form into grains.
- To yield fruit.
- To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock.
- The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
- A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
verb
- To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
- To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
- To have a tailgate party.
noun
- A castle or other fortification.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- mist; fog; roke
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- A rookie.
- A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
verb
verb
- Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
- To repeat something.
- To summarise briefly.
- To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.
- To go through hastily.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
- To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.
- To fuck.
- To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry
- To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
noun
- A frigate with two decks above the waterline.
- Any object with two layers or parts stacked on top of each other.
- A sandwich with three slices of bread, whose toppings are on both sides of the middle slice.
- A vehicle (usually a bus, coach or train) or aircraft with two floors.
- A headline that is two lines long.
- a man who both penetrates (top) and is penetrated (bottom) in sex with other men; sometimes also has relationships with women and/or presents masculine as well as feminine mannerisms and appearances.
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