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noun
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A jail or prison term.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
- a characteristic state or mode of living
- the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
- the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
- the condition of living or the state of being alive
- the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
- the period between birth and the present time
- the period from the present until death
- a living person
- animation and energy in action or expression
- living things collectively
- the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
- an account of the series of events making up a person's life
- a motive for living
name
noun
noun
- Jail or prison.
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
verb
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To shut up.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
noun
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- a suitable moment
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
verb
noun
- Jail or prison.
- Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
- Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
- A container for rubbish or waste.
verb
noun
- A jail cell, or a period of incarceration.
- A condition where a system stops responding to inputs; a freeze.
- A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage.
- A device for locking type into position for printing.
- A condition in which one or more of a vehicle's wheels suddenly cease to rotate due to the application of excessive brake torque, causing the affected wheel(s) to skid.
- A fixed layout involving one or more logos and possibly related text.
noun
- Jail; prison.
- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
verb
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
prep_phrase
noun
- Jail.
- A hold large enough for both hands
- A woman's breasts.
- A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
- A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
- The amount that a jug can hold.
- detention (after-school student punishment)
- An upright electric kettle.
- A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
verb
name
noun
- Prison.
- Installment purchase.
- Debt.
- A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- Meat from that part of a food animal.
- The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
- The last card turned up in the game of faro.
- Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
verb
noun
- Prison.
- A marijuana cigarette.
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
- The penis.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- A thing.
- A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
verb
- To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
adj
noun
- A prison sentence.
- A chicken or turkey used as food.
- A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
- A kilogram of cocaine.
- A penis.
- An airplane.
- A girlfriend.
- A yardbird.
- A satellite.
- A man, fellow.
- Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
- A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
adj
verb
noun
- A crime usually punishable upon conviction by a small fine or by a short term of imprisonment. In the USA, misdemeanants usually are incarcerated in county jail for less than one year, but felons usually are incarcerated in state or federal prison for more than one year. Crimes which are punishable by large fines or by longer imprisonment are sometimes called felonies.
- Any act of misbehavior.
noun
- A jail operated by a county government.
- An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 48 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska and Louisiana).
- A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
- The land ruled by a count or a countess.
adj
noun
noun
- Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A female swan.
- Penalty.
- A writer, or their style.
- The bullpen.
- Marks of ink left by a pen.
- A light pen.
- A wing.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
verb
noun
- One year of prison time.
- chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- A plumb or sinker.
- An ace (the playing card).
- A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- Very fast (speedy).
- Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
- The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- Confinement in prison.
- A place or institution where people are held against their will, especially for long-term confinement of those awaiting trial or convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
- Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
verb
noun
noun
- A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- A small amount of something.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A gun.
- The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- A portion of something.
- A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
- A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- Fractions of a second.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- Specifically, a small amount of time.
adj
verb
noun
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
prep_phrase
noun
- Confinement in a jail.
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
verb
noun
- A two-year prison sentence.
- A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle fingers, a peace sign.
- A cast of dice totalling two.
- A '32 Ford.
- A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
- 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
- A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
- A table seating two diners.
- The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
- A piece of excrement.
- A curveball.
- A side of a die with two spots.
verb
noun
- A prison cell, or prison generally.
- A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
- A reservoir or dam.
verb
- To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- To stand; to tolerate.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
verb
- To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- To perform (a public obligation).
- To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- To present an attractive personal appearance.
- To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
- To be in military service.
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- To work, to operate (a weapon).
- To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
noun
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