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verb
- To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
- To provide a harbor or safe place for.
- To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.
- To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.
noun
- A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
- Any place of shelter.
- A mixing box for materials.
- A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return - Sarah Orne Jewett
verb
- To take shelter or harbour.
- To cover with a shroud.
- To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
- To lop the branches from (a tree).
noun
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
noun
- A bank or dam to keep back water.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
- Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
- A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
- Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
- A bay platform.
- A bay window.
- The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
- A horse of this color.
- The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
- A tract covered with bay trees.
adj
verb
verb
noun
adj
- Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
- Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
- Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
- In a location that renders it difficult to hit with the cue ball.
- Reliable; trusty.
- When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
- Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- Cautious.
- Free from risk.
- Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
- Properly secured.
- Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
noun
verb
noun
- A place of safety or refuge.
- An investment that would lose little of its value in the event of a stock market crash.
- A financially secure offshore bank or country during times of extreme uncertainty, or when domestic banks are suspected of becoming insolvent.
- A protected zone in a country, especially one designated for members of an ethnic or religious minority.
- The hours of the day when it is permissible for broadcasting radio stations in the United States to broadcast profanity over radio waves without fear of retribution from the FCC.
noun
- An immersion in water etc.
- A drunkard.
- A carouse; a drinking session.
- A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
- After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.
verb
- To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
- to engage in sexual activity with penetration but without hip thrusting (usually said of Mormons).
- To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- To take money from.
- To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- To absorb; to drain.
verb
noun
- A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
- Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
- A moll, a bitch, a slut.
- A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
- A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.
- A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
- Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae; also any of southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and any of several Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles), similar to but not closely related to Talpidae moles
- An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
- In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.
- A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
- A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
- An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
- One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially a sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
verb
noun
- A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
- Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
- A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
- One who protects or defends.
- A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
- A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
- A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
- A field of energy that protects or defends.
- In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
- A police badge.
verb
- To come out of the water, in order to rest
- To pull a boat out of the water.
- To pull on an outhaul in order to extend (a sail) along a spar, or to pull on a reef-tackle to reef (a sail).
- To turn sharply in order to deviate from the current heading or course.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, out.
verb
- provide with shelter
- fool or hoax
- suck or take up or in
- visit for entertainment
- call for and obtain payment of
- see or watch
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- fold up
- take up mentally
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- accept
- take in, also metaphorically
- take up as if with a sponge
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- take into one's family
- make (clothes) smaller
verb
- cover or swamp with water
- move or progress freely as if in a stream
- move along, of liquids
- cause to flow
- be abundantly present
- fall or flow in a certain way
- undergo menstruation
noun
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
verb
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
- To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
noun
- An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
verb
- To relax; to lie back.
- To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- To become hard by rapid cooling.
- To smoke marijuana.
- To discourage, depress.
- To become cold.
- To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
adj
- "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
- Moderately cold or chilly.
- Okay, not a problem.
- Unwelcoming; not cordial.
- Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
noun
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
verb
- To shelter or conceal.
- To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To present publicly (on the screen).
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- To fit with a screen.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- A disguise; concealment.
noun
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- Home plate.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
verb
adj
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign
- Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
adv
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
- into the goal
- To the home page
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
- To one's place of birth
- into the right, proper or stowed position
verb
noun
- A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
- A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
- A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
- A supply or source of something.
- A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
- A place where anything is kept in store.
noun
- Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge
- A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.
- The Ark of the Covenant.
- A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
- A large box with a flat lid.
- Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
noun
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent.
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
verb
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
verb
noun
- The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.
- A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.
- The master of a ship.
- A coach, director, or other leader.
- One who jumps rope.
- Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.
- A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
- The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
- Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.
noun
- A means of keeping or remaining safe.
- Coverage.
- The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.
- The state of being safe.
- An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).
- Restrictions on foreign competitors which limit their ability to compete with domestic producers of goods or services.
- A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.
- Immunity from harm, obtained by illegal payments, as bribery or extortion.
verb
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- To eat.
- To keep within a structure or container.
noun
- House music.
- A workhouse.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- A theatre.
- An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- Size and quality of residential accommodations.
- The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- Lotto; bingo.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- The fourth Lenormand card.
- A place of rest or repose.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
verb
- Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.
- Of a vessel: to take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
- To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
- To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.
- To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
- To place (someone) in a position that is difficult to get out of; to hinder.
- To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.
noun
- A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
- One who bunks off; a truant from school.
- A sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.
- The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.
- A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine; (by extension) the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.
- A large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.
- A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.
- A kitchen worktop.
- The coal compartment on a tank engine.
- An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
noun
- A strong refuge; a defence.
- The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- A water tower.
- The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
- A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
- A control tower.
- Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
- An interlocking tower.
- A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
- One who tows.
- An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
verb
noun
- Spa water.
- The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
- A serving of liquid water.
- A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
- Urine.
- The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
- Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. (Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America.)
- Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
- Water in a body; an area of open water.
- A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
- A person's intuition.
- The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
- A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
- Mineral water.
verb
- To dilute.
- To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
- To urinate onto.
- To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
- To fill with or secrete water.
- To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
- To get or take in water.
- To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
adj
noun
- A flexible or semiflexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
- A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
- A microscopic double layer of lipids and proteins forming the boundary of cells or organelles.
- A piece of parchment forming part of a roll.
noun
- Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
- An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
- A petrolhead.
- An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
- An indigenous person.
verb
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