English words for 'a boundary stone'
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- The boundary line of a surface.
- the boundary of a surface
- (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- An advantage.
- (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- (also figuratively) 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.
- (geometry) 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.
- (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
- a line determining the limits of an area
- a slight competitive advantage
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- (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- advance slowly, as if by inches
- provide with an edge
- provide with a border or edge
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- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- information that has become public
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
- (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
- The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- (crosswording) The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
- (computer graphics) A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
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- come to the surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
- (transitive) To bring to the surface.
- (transitive) To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
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- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
- (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
- (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
- (British) A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
- (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
- (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- a lack of feeling or expression or movement
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
- building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
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- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.
- (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- (transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
- (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
- kill by throwing stones at
- remove the pits from
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- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- (geometry) A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- (physical geography) Ellipsis of slab avalanche.
- (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
- (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
- A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- (surfing) A very large wave.
- (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- (taxation, especially India) Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
- block consisting of a thick piece of something
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- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- The discus used in ancient sports.
- An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
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- A boundary; a landmark.
- Alternative form of dhole (“Asian wild dog”).
- (British, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
- Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
- (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
- Money or other goods given as charity.
- (law, Scotland) Dolus.
- a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given
- money received from the state
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- the boundary of a surface
- a line that indicates a boundary
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- a strip forming the outer edge of something
- (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
- The outer edge of something.
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
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- enclose in or as if in a frame
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- provide with a border or edge
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
noun
- An edge or border.
- a region marking a boundary
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- (architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
- (figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
- (UK, historical) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- (UK, Western Australia, New Zealand) The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- the limit beyond which something happens or changes
- a grass border along a road
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- Relating to stone.
- (inorganic chemistry) Relating to lithium.
- (geology) Relating to rock.
- (archaeology, often capitalised) pertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE.
- (medicine) Relating to the formation of uric acid concretions (stones) in the bladder and other parts of the body.
- of or containing lithium
- relating to or composed of stone
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- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- (Internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
- (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
- The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- (British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
- (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
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- (computing) To signal (an event).
- (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
- (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- (computing) To set a program variable to true.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- (biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
- (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- communicate or signal with a flag
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
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- A thin piece of stone; a slate.
- (skiing, slang) A ski.
- A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
- A drop (of rain or water), a splash.
- (aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
- a thin strip (wood or metal)
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- (of rain or other water) To fall; to beat (against something).
- To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
- To set on; to incite.
- (British, dialectal) To split; to crack.
- To construct or provide with slats.
- To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down.
- close the slats of (windows)
- equip or bar with slats
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- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
- (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
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- an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
- the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
- (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
- (botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
- (archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.
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- The edge or border of any flat surface.
- (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
- (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- (botany) The shape of the edge of a leaf.
- That which is ancillary; periphery.
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
- (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
- (typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
- the blank space that surrounds the text on a page
- an amount beyond the minimum necessary
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities
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- a stone that forms the top of wall or building
- a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
- a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
- a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
- A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
- A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
- A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
- A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
- (nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
- Someone or something that stretches.
- (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
- (architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
- One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
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- a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies
- (figuratively) That which is prominent, fundamental, noteworthy, or central.
- Such a stone used ceremonially, often inscribed with the architect's and owner's names, dates and other details.
- A stone forming the base at the corner of a building.
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- having a specified kind of border or edge
- (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
- having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination
- That has a sharp planar surface.
- (followed by with or in a compound adjective) Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.
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- (geometry) The boundary of such a figure.
- (geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
- (geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.
- (geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.
- a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides
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- a narrow boundary
- (figuratively) A precarious balance that could be upset by a very small force in either direction.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: the edge of a knife.
- A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
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- a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
- an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
- the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
- an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
- (figurative, also attributive) A major event or discovery.
- A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.
- (historical) An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree).
- A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.
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- (architecture) On a gable end, the stone (often decorated) at the base of the slope of the gable on either side.
- An apparatus that permits the loading door of a bus to decrease in height in order to facilitate boarding of passengers that are seniors and physically disadvantaged
- A hassock.
- A person who kneels.
- a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on
- a person in a kneeling position
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- A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
- (weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.
- The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
- (mining) A collection of pumps in a mine.
- (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
- The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
- (mining) A mine or set of mines on lease.
- rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
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- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- A decorative border.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
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- the outside boundary or surface of something
- The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
- A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
- (grammar, linguistics) The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
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- The boundary line of a surface.
- the boundary of a surface
- (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- An advantage.
- (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- (also figuratively) 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.
- (geometry) 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.
- (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
- a line determining the limits of an area
- a slight competitive advantage
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- (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- advance slowly, as if by inches
- provide with an edge
- provide with a border or edge
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- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- information that has become public
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
- (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
- The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- (crosswording) The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
- (computer graphics) A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
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- come to the surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
- (transitive) To bring to the surface.
- (transitive) To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
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- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- (geometry) A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- (physical geography) Ellipsis of slab avalanche.
- (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
- (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
- A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- (surfing) A very large wave.
- (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- (taxation, especially India) Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
- block consisting of a thick piece of something
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- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- The discus used in ancient sports.
- An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
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- A boundary; a landmark.
- Alternative form of dhole (“Asian wild dog”).
- (British, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
- Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
- (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
- Money or other goods given as charity.
- (law, Scotland) Dolus.
- a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given
- money received from the state
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- the boundary of a surface
- a line that indicates a boundary
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- a strip forming the outer edge of something
- (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
- The outer edge of something.
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
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- enclose in or as if in a frame
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- provide with a border or edge
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
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- An edge or border.
- a region marking a boundary
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- (architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
- (figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
- (UK, historical) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- (UK, Western Australia, New Zealand) The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- the limit beyond which something happens or changes
- a grass border along a road
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- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- (Internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
- (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
- The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- (British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
- (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
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- (computing) To signal (an event).
- (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
- (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- (computing) To set a program variable to true.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- (biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
- (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- communicate or signal with a flag
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
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- A thin piece of stone; a slate.
- (skiing, slang) A ski.
- A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
- A drop (of rain or water), a splash.
- (aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
- a thin strip (wood or metal)
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- (of rain or other water) To fall; to beat (against something).
- To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
- To set on; to incite.
- (British, dialectal) To split; to crack.
- To construct or provide with slats.
- To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down.
- close the slats of (windows)
- equip or bar with slats
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- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
- (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
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- an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
- the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
- (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
- (botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
- (archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.
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- The edge or border of any flat surface.
- (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
- (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- (botany) The shape of the edge of a leaf.
- That which is ancillary; periphery.
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
- (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
- (typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
- the blank space that surrounds the text on a page
- an amount beyond the minimum necessary
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities
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- a stone that forms the top of wall or building
- a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
- a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
- a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
- A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
- A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
- A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
- A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
- (nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
- Someone or something that stretches.
- (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
- (architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
- One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
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- a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies
- (figuratively) That which is prominent, fundamental, noteworthy, or central.
- Such a stone used ceremonially, often inscribed with the architect's and owner's names, dates and other details.
- A stone forming the base at the corner of a building.
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- (geometry) The boundary of such a figure.
- (geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
- (geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.
- (geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.
- a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides
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- a narrow boundary
- (figuratively) A precarious balance that could be upset by a very small force in either direction.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: the edge of a knife.
- A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
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- a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
- an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
- the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
- an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
- (figurative, also attributive) A major event or discovery.
- A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.
- (historical) An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree).
- A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.
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- (architecture) On a gable end, the stone (often decorated) at the base of the slope of the gable on either side.
- An apparatus that permits the loading door of a bus to decrease in height in order to facilitate boarding of passengers that are seniors and physically disadvantaged
- A hassock.
- A person who kneels.
- a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on
- a person in a kneeling position
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- A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
- (weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.
- The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
- (mining) A collection of pumps in a mine.
- (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
- The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
- (mining) A mine or set of mines on lease.
- rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
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- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- A decorative border.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
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- the outside boundary or surface of something
- The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
- A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
- (grammar, linguistics) The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
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- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
- (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
- (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
- (British) A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
- (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
- (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- a lack of feeling or expression or movement
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
- building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
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- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.
- (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- (transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
- (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
- kill by throwing stones at
- remove the pits from
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- Relating to stone.
- (inorganic chemistry) Relating to lithium.
- (geology) Relating to rock.
- (archaeology, often capitalised) pertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE.
- (medicine) Relating to the formation of uric acid concretions (stones) in the bladder and other parts of the body.
- of or containing lithium
- relating to or composed of stone
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- having a specified kind of border or edge
- (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
- having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination
- That has a sharp planar surface.
- (followed by with or in a compound adjective) Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.