offside
onside
lead off
wing
edge
straight hit
sweeper
fair
slice
leg slip
inside centre
savepoint
free ride
freeball
leftfield
left field
open-side
left wing
left
fat
phantom
third slip
rightfield
marquee player
attackman
putout
right
par
right field
put away
blockhole
tenuki
workout warrior
dummy
first slip
fielder's choice
pull
let
sending off
net ball
foul
interception
forfeit
on
center spot
short leg
centerfielder
foul pole
mid on
block
deep square leg
pivotman
floater
wheelhouse
snick
draw
bat-pad
snooker
mid off
third man
outside centre
second slip
base
fourth slip
all-courter
penalty
right wing
reserve
tetherball
on deck circle
center field
fielder
center
screen
substitute
beaner
deep point
second-stringer
nick
centerfield
interplayer
away
second
left fielder
ball hog
sinkhole
third
tice
checking
early shower
third base
first base
three-quarter
second base
shade
offside
onside
fair
foul
on
interplayer
away
lead off
wing
edge
straight hit
sweeper
slice
leg slip
inside centre
savepoint
free ride
leftfield
left field
open-side
left wing
left
fat
phantom
third slip
rightfield
marquee player
attackman
putout
right
par
right field
blockhole
tenuki
workout warrior
dummy
first slip
fielder's choice
pull
let
sending off
net ball
interception
forfeit
center spot
short leg
centerfielder
foul pole
mid on
block
deep square leg
pivotman
floater
wheelhouse
snick
bat-pad
mid off
third man
outside centre
second slip
base
fourth slip
all-courter
penalty
freeball
right wing
reserve
tetherball
on deck circle
center field
fielder
center
substitute
beaner
deep point
second-stringer
nick
centerfield
second
left fielder
ball hog
sinkhole
third
tice
checking
early shower
third base
first base
three-quarter
second base
freeball
put away
draw
snooker
screen
shade
adj
- Favourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.
- In agreement or support; on board.
- Not in an offside position; In the part of the playing area where one can legally play the ball, puck, etc.
- On the side of a vehicle from which the driver, paddler, etc. propels it.
noun
noun
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- Human arm.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A háček.
verb
noun
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
verb
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To win by a small margin.
noun
- A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
- A vacuum cleaner.
- A batsman who plays sweep shots.
- A carpet sweeper.
- A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
- A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
- A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
- A detector (for mines).
- One who sweeps.
- A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
- The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
- Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
- A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.
adj
- Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
- Favorable to a ship's course.
- Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
- Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
- Just, equitable.
- Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
- Not a no ball.
- Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.
- Between the baselines.
- Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
- Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
- Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
noun
- A fair woman; a sweetheart.
- A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).
- An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
- A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
- An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
- Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
adv
verb
- To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
- To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
- To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
- To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
noun
- A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
- A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- A contiguous portion of an array.
- A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- That which is thin and broad.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- An amount of anything.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
verb
- To cut into slices.
- To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
adj
noun
- A hand in which a player can remain without betting further money.
- The practice of buying and selling shares or other securities without actually having the capital to cover the trade.
- An opportunity or benefit which has no cost, especially one enjoyed or undertaken at the expense of others.
verb
noun
- the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left
- location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
- those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare
- the hand that is on the left side of the body
- a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east
adj
- being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north
- of or belonging to the political or intellectual left
adj
adv
noun
- A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- A fat person.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- An erection.
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
adj
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bountiful.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- Fertile; productive.
- Thick; large.
- Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- Bulbous; rotund.
noun
- A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
- A ghost or apparition.
- Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
- A test object. A test phantom is an object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue.
adj
noun
- the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
- an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
- location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
- the hand that is on the right side of the body
- a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east
- anything in accord with principles of justice
- (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing
adj
- being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north
- free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
- in conformance with justice or law or morality
- correct in opinion or judgment
- of or belonging to the political or intellectual right
verb
- make reparations or amends for
- put in or restore to an upright position
- regain an upright or proper position
- make right or correct
adv
- precisely, exactly
- immediately
- completely
- toward or on the right; also used figuratively
- in the right manner; correctly; suitably
- an interjection expressing agreement; Yes, you are indeed correct
- (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
- to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely
- in accordance with moral or social standards
- in an accurate manner
adj
- socially right or correct
- appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
- in or into a satisfactory condition
- intended for the right hand
- in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
- having the axis perpendicular to the base
- (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward
- (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- precisely accurate
noun
- A hole in which a player achieves par.
- An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
- Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
- The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
- Equality of condition or circumstances.
prep
verb
verb
- To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot
- To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
- To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
- To kill someone.
- To store, add to one's stores for later use.
- To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities.
- To take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory or make the game no longer competitive.
- To knock out an opponent.
- To discard, divest oneself of.
- To send (someone) to prison or mental asylum.
- To strike out a batter.
noun
- A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- A stupid person.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
- A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- An unused parameter or value.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
verb
- To feint.
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
adv
noun
- A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
- A single impression from a handpress.
- A journey made by rowing.
- A proof sheet.
- An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
- An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
intj
verb
- To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- To row.
- To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To do or perform.
- To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- To attract or net; to pull in.
- To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
- To retrieve or generate for use.
- To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
noun
- A pass that is intercepted by an opposing player.
- An act of intercepting something, the state of being intercepted, or a thing that is intercepted.
- precipitation that does not reach the soil, but is instead intercepted by the leaves, branches of plants and the forest floor.
- An aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
- A passing play where the ball is received by the opposing team.
noun
- Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
- A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
- A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
adj
verb
- To fail to keep an obligation.
- To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
- To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
- To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
adj
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
prep
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
noun
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
verb
noun
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- An unaffiliated player.
- One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
- A small suet dumpling put into soup.
- Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” said individual.
- A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
- A floating rate bond.
- A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
- One who or that which floats.
- A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).
- A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.
- A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
- A misstep; a faux pas.
- A piece of faeces that floats.
- A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
- A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
- A corpse floating in a body of water.
- An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
- An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
- A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
- A pie floater.
- A sandal.
- Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
noun
- A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
- The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
- A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
- A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
- An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
- A person's area of authority or expertise.
- The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
verb
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
noun
- One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- The smallest kind of cannon.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- freebase cocaine
- A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
- The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- Synonym of radix.
- The game of prisoners' bars.
- The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
- The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
- The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
verb
- To be located (at a particular place).
- To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- To freebase.
adj
noun
- A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
noun
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- formality and propriety of manner
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
- the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
verb
noun
- the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- a building dedicated to a particular activity
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the object upon which interest and attention focuses
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
- the middle of a military or naval formation
- (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated
- politically moderate persons; centrists
- (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
- the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
- (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
- a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
adj
adj
verb
verb
- 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 shelter or conceal.
- 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 small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
- The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
- A police station or prison.
verb
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
adj
adj
- Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
- At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
- Not on one's home territory.
- Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
- Out.
verb
intj
adv
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- From a place, hence.
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- Without restraint.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- So as to remove or use up something.
- Come away; go away; take away.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- following the first in an ordering or series
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a speech seconding a motion
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
adj
adj
verb
adv
verb
noun
- A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
- A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
- An attack which redirects requests - be it network or memory accesses - to a new location defined by the attacker.
- A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
- A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
verb
noun
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- following the second position in an ordering or series
- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
adv
adj
verb
- To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- To shield (someone or something) from light.
- To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- To alter slightly.
- To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- To darken, particularly in drawing.
- To surpass by a narrow margin.
- To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
- To shield oneself from light.
noun
- Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- A subtle variation in a concept.
- A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- Subtle insults.
- A candle-shade.
- A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
- Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
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