phalanx
demonstration
troop
square
echelon
sally
detachment
vanguard
van
military formation
armament
intertroop
flying camp
hostile
legion
flying party
intermilitary
security forces
chalk
beleaguered
vareuse
parade
file
outpost
mechanized cavalry
forward line
superlegion
soldiery
troops
military personnel
battlegroup
battalion
battle line
spearhead
vexillum
armor
armour
trooper
picket
concentration
corps de garde
fencible
interarmy
besieged
post
squadron
military post
artillery
artillery unit
column
glory hole
gole
zeriba
muster
section
army base
battery
head
ranker
staging area
military
rear front
combat zone
Marines
battle
basewide
foreign legion
engagement
ambuscade
army unit
conflict
fight
fatigue party
open order
fort
combat area
pivotman
naval unit
troopwise
orb
war party
para
group
testudo
reconnaissance in force
walking fire
line of march
paratrooper
division
execute order
trooplift
junta
military junta
contingent
battle station
rear
interregimental
intertroop
intermilitary
beleaguered
interarmy
besieged
basewide
interregimental
troopwise
phalanx
demonstration
troop
square
echelon
sally
detachment
vanguard
van
military formation
armament
flying camp
hostile
legion
flying party
security forces
chalk
vareuse
parade
file
outpost
mechanized cavalry
forward line
superlegion
soldiery
troops
military personnel
battlegroup
battalion
battle line
spearhead
vexillum
armor
armour
trooper
picket
concentration
corps de garde
fencible
post
squadron
military post
artillery
artillery unit
column
glory hole
gole
zeriba
muster
section
army base
battery
head
ranker
staging area
military
rear front
combat zone
Marines
battle
foreign legion
engagement
ambuscade
army unit
conflict
fight
fatigue party
open order
fort
combat area
pivotman
naval unit
orb
war party
para
group
testudo
reconnaissance in force
walking fire
line of march
paratrooper
division
execute order
trooplift
junta
military junta
contingent
battle station
rear
noun
noun
- A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
- A cell in a grid.
- The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
- The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- Cigarette.
- The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- A mortarboard.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A vat used for fermentation.
adv
adj
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- Even; tied
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- Socially conventional; boring.
- Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
verb
- To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To hold a quartile position respecting.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
- To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
noun
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- A kind of stonefly.
- A willow
- An excursion or side trip.
- An object made from the above trees' wood
- A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A wren.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
verb
noun
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
adj
noun
noun
- A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- The favorite in a sporting event.
- The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- Tailor's chalk.
- A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
- A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
verb
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
noun
noun
- The body of soldiers thus assembled.
- Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.
- Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.
- Synonym of road, used in place names.
- A row of shops beside a street.
- Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses.
- Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.
- Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.
- Synonym of show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.
- A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.
- The body of promenaders thus assembled.
verb
- Synonym of show off: to display or reveal prominently or ostentatiously, especially in a kind of procession.
- To march through or along.
- To march past.
- To assemble soldiers for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
- To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
- To walk in a row led by one parent, often trailed by the other.
- To move slowly through or among.
- To march impressively or ostentatiously.
- Synonym of promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.
noun
- A small detachment of soldiers.
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.
- Course of thought; thread of narration.
- A roll or list.
- An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
verb
- To submit a formal request to some office.
- To corrupt.
- To commit (official papers) to some office.
- To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- To move in a file.
- To submit (a story) to a newspaper or similar publication.
noun
noun
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
verb
noun
- bringing together military forces
- the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- increase in density
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- great and constant diligence and attention
adj
noun
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- a job in an organization
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- A message on a social media website
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
verb
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a post; put into a post
- assign to a station
- display, as of records in sports games
- enter on a public list
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- mark with a stake
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- mark or expose as infamous
- To post a message on a social media website
noun
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
- The gynostemium
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
noun
- A military trench.
- An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
- A bell-mouth spillway: a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
- A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
- A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
- The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
- An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
- The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
- A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
- A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
- A generally untidy place.
noun
- A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- A piece of residential land; a plot.
- Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadan surveys and (historical) American land grants.
- A sequence of rock layers.
- A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- A right inverse.
- A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
verb
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
noun
- A coordinated group of artillery weapons.
- The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
- Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.
- The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.
- A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.
- An array of similar things.
- The catcher and the pitcher together
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
noun
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
noun
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- a meeting arranged in advance
- a mutual promise to marry
- the act of giving someone a job
- employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
- contact by fitting together
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group
noun
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- a disagreement or argument about something important
verb
noun
- A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
- A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- An orbit of an heavenly body
- Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- A sphere of action.
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- A blank window or panel.
- One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- The time period of an orbit
- A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
- The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
verb
noun
- An air force formation.
- A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- A subset of a culture or of a society.
- A functional group.
- A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- A collection of formations or rock strata.
- A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A commercial organization.
- A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
verb
noun
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the act or process of dividing
- an administrative unit in government or business
- discord that splits a group
- a league ranked by quality
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a group of ships of similar type
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
noun
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