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noun
noun
noun
- a short distance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the distance covered by a step
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- relative position in a graded series
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
verb
- shift or move by taking a step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- treat badly
- furnish with steps
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- measure (distances) by pacing
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
noun
noun
- a small distance
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
- a symbol of inquisitiveness
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- a natural skill
- a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
verb
noun
noun
- Any very short distance.
- A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A small island; an islet.
- A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
verb
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
- to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
adj
adj
- At a little distance; near.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
verb
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adv
noun
- A distance.
- An ounce of a recreational drug.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- A cannabis pipe.
- An artillery gun.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- An article published in the press.
- A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- A gun.
- A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A pacifier; a dummy.
- A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
verb
noun
noun
- The (very small) distance between two things.
- A small tendril that forms on metal.
- One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
- One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
- That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
- A graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot.
- A hair of the beard.
- Spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.
noun
- A distance walked.
- A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
- Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- A trip made by walking.
- An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- A person's conduct or course in life.
- An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
verb
- To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- To leave, resign.
- To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
- To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- To travel (a distance) by walking.
- To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
- To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
prep_phrase
noun
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- A blue uniform. See blues.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
- A bluefish.
- A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- Blue clothing.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- A member of law enforcement.
- A type of firecracker.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- An argument or brawl.
adj
- Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- Having a color charge of blue.
- Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- Having blue as its color.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.
- Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
verb
noun
noun
- a very small distance or space
- a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
- filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
- any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
- cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
- a filamentous projection or process on an organism
adv
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
postp
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- A great distance.
- The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- Wall Street.
- Streetwise slang.
- Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- 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.
- Living in the streets.
verb
- To go on sale.
- To heavily defeat.
- To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- To build or equip with streets.
- To proselytize in public.
adj
noun
- Distance between things.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.
- Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
- A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
- A gap; an empty place.
- A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
- A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- A specific (specified) period of time.
- A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
- Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
- Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
verb
verb
adj
prep
noun
- Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
- A group of donkeys.
- Easter.
- A step taken with the foot.
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
- Speed or velocity in general.
- A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
noun
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
- One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- An Ethernet bus.
- Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A length of some object.
- A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
verb
adv
adj
- marked by depth of thinking
- very distant in time or space
- intense or extreme
- having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
- strong; intense
- relatively thick from top to bottom
- extending relatively far inward
- (of darkness) densely dark
- large in quantity or size
- with head or back bent low
- of an obscure nature
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
noun
- the central and most intense or profound part
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- literary term for an ocean
adj
adv
- Exactly; just; at the shortest possible distance.
- Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.
- Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
- Straightforwardly; honestly.
- In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
- In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary but by direct means.
conj
adj
- Far; distant.
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
noun
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- A sports team.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- Sidespin; english
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
verb
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
adv
noun
- a large distance
- a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
- a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
- a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
- an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
- a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
- a footrace extending one mile
adj
adj
noun
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
- 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
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