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noun
- The sound of something scratching or tearing.
- Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
- A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
- A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.
- A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.
- A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
- A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
verb
- To become rent or torn.
- To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
- To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
- To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
adj
noun
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- poor handwriting
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
verb
- cause friction
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- The sound of something that bugles.
- A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- A horn used by hunters.
- Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
verb
noun
- A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
- A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
- A chip or dent in something metallic.
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
- A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
verb
- To crack; to open.
- To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
- To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
noun
adj
- Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- Voiceless.
- Gentle.
- Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- Emulated with software; not physically real.
- Not likely to cause addiction.
- Not containing alcohol.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- Effeminate.
- Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- softcore.
- Palatalized.
- Not bright or intense.
- Physically or emotionally weak.
- Foolish.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- Quiet.
noun
- A similar sound made by a human.
- The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.
- An aggressive grumbling.
- A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
- A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.
verb
- To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
- Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
- To express (something) by growling.
noun
- An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
- A sharp impact.
- A batsman's innings.
- A blow or setback.
- Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
- Synonym of hunger knock
- A criticism.
verb
verb
noun
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- And when his body was against the burr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
- A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had high burr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
- A rough humming sound.
- 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
- A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280
- A burr knot or burl.
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry
- A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
- A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
- A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- The ear lobe.
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called a burr.
- burr or ring of iron behind the hand
- 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290
- 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
noun
- An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
- Unpleasant odour.
- A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
- Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
- A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
verb
- To produce low sounds which blend continuously
- To express by humming.
- To reek, smell bad.
- To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
- To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
- To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
intj
noun
- Any sharp sound.
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
adj
verb
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
noun
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
adj
noun
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- Latency.
- A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- A notification.
- A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
verb
- To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- To flick.
- To cause something to bounce.
- To bounce.
- To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- To call out audibly.
- To penalize.
- To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
noun
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
verb
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
adj
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
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