English words for 'Toward a slum.'
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noun
- A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
- (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighborhood.
- (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
- A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
- an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country
- a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
noun
verb
verb
adj
noun
- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
- A rhythmic work song, traditionally sung by sailors or stevedores, functioning to set the pace for hauling, turning a capstan, loading, or other such activities.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
noun
- (derogatory) An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by abandoned or run-down buildings and vices such as drug dealing and prostitution, and frequented by homeless people.
- (figuratively) A situation of great desperation or misfortune.
- a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts
noun
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
- any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
- formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
- (figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
- An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
- An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
- An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
adj
- (US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
- (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
- Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
- Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
verb
noun
- the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
- people living or working on the same street
- a situation offering opportunities
- the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
- (uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- (specifically, US, Canada) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- (finance) Ellipsis of Wall Street.
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- (slang, uncountable) Streetwise slang.
- (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- (attributive) Living in the streets.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- (slang, in the plural) People in general, as a source of information.
- (figuratively) A great distance.
adj
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.
- (New Zealand) A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.
- A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.
- (UK, India, Australia, Hong Kong) A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
- (incel slang, derogatory) A woman.
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- the act of dressing and preparing yourself
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
verb
noun
noun
- an urban, often lower-income inner-city area
- (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- the folding roof of a carriage
- a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- (colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
- (nautical) 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).)
- (slang) Gangster, thug.
- A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
- (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A neighborhood.
- (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
- (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
- (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- 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)
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
verb
adj
name
- A neighbourhood in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
- A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU6072).
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
- An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- A village in Swafield parish, North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2733).
- A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1430).
- A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
name
- A fictional place in the rural American South inhabited by poor and uneducated people who live in dilapidated structures.
- A dirt road, created by the passage of thousands of tobacco casks being rolled, mainly by people or mules, from plantations to river steamboats or trucks.
- A region of North Carolina historically associated with the production of tobacco.
- (sports, slang) The four North Carolina schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
noun
- The inhabitants of a residential area.
- An approximate amount.
- Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
- The quality of physical proximity.
- (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
- Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
- The residential area near one's home.
- A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
- (cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
- A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
- A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
- (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
- a surrounding or nearby region
- people living near one another
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
- an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
noun
- A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
- (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighborhood.
- (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
- A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
- an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country
- a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
noun
verb
noun
- (derogatory) An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by abandoned or run-down buildings and vices such as drug dealing and prostitution, and frequented by homeless people.
- (figuratively) A situation of great desperation or misfortune.
- a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts
noun
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
- any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
- formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
- (figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
- An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
- An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
- An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
adj
- (US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
- (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
- Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
- Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
verb
noun
- the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
- people living or working on the same street
- a situation offering opportunities
- the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
- (uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- (specifically, US, Canada) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- (finance) Ellipsis of Wall Street.
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- (slang, uncountable) Streetwise slang.
- (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- (attributive) Living in the streets.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- (slang, in the plural) People in general, as a source of information.
- (figuratively) A great distance.
adj
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.
- (New Zealand) A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.
- A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.
- (UK, India, Australia, Hong Kong) A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
- (incel slang, derogatory) A woman.
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- the act of dressing and preparing yourself
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
verb
noun
noun
- an urban, often lower-income inner-city area
- (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- the folding roof of a carriage
- a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- (colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
- (nautical) 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).)
- (slang) Gangster, thug.
- A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
- (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A neighborhood.
- (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
- (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
- (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- 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)
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
verb
adj
noun
- The inhabitants of a residential area.
- An approximate amount.
- Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
- The quality of physical proximity.
- (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
- Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
- The residential area near one's home.
- A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
- (cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
- A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
- A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
- (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
- a surrounding or nearby region
- people living near one another
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
- an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
verb
adj
noun
- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
- A rhythmic work song, traditionally sung by sailors or stevedores, functioning to set the pace for hauling, turning a capstan, loading, or other such activities.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors