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textblock
obi
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left-to-right
forebook
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study guide
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verb
- To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
- To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
- To hitchhike
- To touch or cover with the thumb.
- To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
- To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
noun
verb
- To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
- To ruffle with a rippling action.
- To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream.
- To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts.
- To leaf through rapidly.
- To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
- To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
noun
- A quick skim through the pages of a book.
- A succession of small waves.
- A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
- In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool.
- The act of shuffling cards; the sound made while shuffling cards.
verb
verb
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
noun
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- A walk to and fro.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
verb
- To turn several pages of a publication.
- To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- To furnish with folios.
- To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
- To attend (someone) as a page.
noun
- A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- The type set up for printing a page.
- A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- A web page.
- One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
- A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- Any record or writing; a collective memory.
noun
- The content of a reading list.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- An interpretation.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- The extent of what one has read.
- Something to read; reading material.
verb
noun
verb
- To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
- To apply paper to.
- To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
- To enfold in paper.
- To document; to memorialize.
- To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
- To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
- To sandpaper.
adj
- Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
- Made of paper.
- Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
- Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
noun
- A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
- A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
- A scholastic essay.
- A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
- Any financial assets other than specie.
- A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
- Wallpaper.
- A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
- An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- Wrapping paper.
- A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- Money.
- A university course.
- A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
- A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
verb
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
noun
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
verb
- look through a book or other written material
- lightly throw to see which side comes up
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
- cause to move with a flick
- throw or toss with a light motion
- move with a flick or light motion
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way
- go mad, go crazy
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
- hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg
- a sudden, quick movement
- the act of flipping a coin
- a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
adj
noun
- A cursory reading, skipping the details.
- Skim milk.
- That which is skimmed off.
- The act of skimming.
- Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
adj
verb
- To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
- To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- To read quickly, skipping some detail.
- To throw an object so it bounces on water.
- To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
- To ricochet.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- To become coated over.
- To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
- To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
noun
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
verb
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
noun
- A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
- Any space passed over; distance.
- An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.
- An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
- A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
- The space between two double furrows.
- A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
- A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
- Any least part of a fabric or clothing.
- A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
verb
- To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
- To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
- To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
- To form land into ridges.
- To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
- To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
- To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
noun
- Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.
- The act of receiving.
- A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
- The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
- The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
- The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
- The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
- A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
- The act of catching a pass.
noun
verb
adj
noun
noun
- That which one browses through; something to read.
- Young shoots and twigs.
- Fodder for cattle and other animals.
verb
- To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
- To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
- To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
verb
- To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.
- To steal or snatch.
- To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
- To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
- To grab or bat quickly.
noun
- A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
- A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
- An attack, insult or critical remark.
- An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
- An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
- Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
- A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
verb
- To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To enlighten intellectually.
- To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- To shine light on (something).
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To become bright; to light up.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
verb
- To read quickly a list or other short text.
- To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
- To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
- To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
- To run against and sink, as a vessel.
- To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
- To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
- To decline in quality or condition.
- To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
- To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
- To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
noun
- the passage that is being read
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- an abstract mental location
- a general vicinity
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a particular situation
- where you live at a particular time
- a job in an organization
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- proper or designated social situation
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- proper or appropriate position or location
- a public square with room for pedestrians
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a blank area
verb
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- place somebody in a particular situation or location
- assign a rank or rating to
- assign a location to
- to arrange for
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- assign to (a job or a home)
- locate
- estimate
- identify the location or place of
- make an investment
- assign to a station
- finish second or better in a horse or dog race
- sing a note with the correct pitch
noun
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- The difference between bidding and asking price.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- The act of spreading.
- An expanse of land.
- Something that has been spread.
- A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- A numerical difference.
- The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
verb
- To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
- To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
verb
- Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
- To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- To throw away a leading position.
- To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- To feed (an infant) baby formula.
noun
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- The contents of such a container.
- A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- A building; house.
- (originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
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