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noun
- An important or critical situation.
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
verb
- To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
- To hatch.
- To seize, as though with claws.
- To grip or grasp tightly.
- To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
adj
noun
- A critical moment or event.
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A shortage.
- A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- The symbol #.
verb
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
noun
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
adj
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
adj
noun
- A decision point.
- In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- The crotch.
- A tuning fork.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A forklift.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
verb
- To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- To kick someone in the crotch.
- To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- To bale a shaft dry.
- To shoot into blades, as corn does.
noun
- Denouement; crisis.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
- A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
- Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
- A point of transition.
- A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
- A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
- A sharp point or pointed end.
verb
verb
- challenge (a decision)
- take a court case to a higher court for review
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
- be attractive to
- cite as an authority; resort to
noun
- earnest or urgent request
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
- request for a sum of money
noun
- A critical subject or situation with concealed or unpredictable implications.
- A piece of exercise device consisting of a pivoting tube attached to the ground to which a barbell can be fitted to lift it off the ground.
- A mine that is placed on land and designed to explode when stepped upon or touched.
noun
- Synonym of crisis, the decisive moment in the course of an illness.
- A paragon: a person or thing representing such a high point.
- A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
- Full bloom or reproductive maturity.
noun
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
noun
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
adj
noun
- A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
- An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
- A tantrum or emotional outburst.
- Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
- Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. https://web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262
noun
- A difficult situation that must be endured.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A hybrid of any kind.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- crossfire.
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
prep
verb
- Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To mark with an X.
- To score a try.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
adj
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
noun
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A repair or corrective action.
- A determination of location.
- A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
verb
- To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
- To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- To mend, to repair.
- To prepare (food or drink).
- To map a (point or subset) to itself.
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noun
- A potential problem or source of trouble.
- A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or non-function.
- An attempt to disprove or refute someone's argument, usually in a deceptive or disingenuous way.
- An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
- An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
abbrev
- Understand you; comprehend you.
- Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
- Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
- Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
- Got you by surprise; exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
verb
- To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
- To subject to a lie detector test.
- Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
- To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
- To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
- To cause something to flap.
- To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
noun
- A state of agitation.
- The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
- A small bet or risky investment.
- The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
- An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in rapid structural failure.
- A hasty game of cards or similar.
- An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
noun
- Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- The entire set of something; all of something.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- The action or an instance of sending something out
- A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- Any question or situation to be resolved
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
verb
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To deliver for use.
- To deliver by authority.
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
noun
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- Importance, claim to notice, regard.
- The tendency to consider others.
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
noun
- a difficult juncture
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- (military) a written leave of absence
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- a complimentary ticket
- a usually brief attempt
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
verb
- go across or through
- move past
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- for time to move forward
- place into the hands or custody of
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- travel past
- come to pass
- go unchallenged; be approved
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- pass over, across, or through
- transmit information
- disappear gradually
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- be superior or better than some standard
- accept or judge as acceptable
- allow to go without comment or censure
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- throw (a ball) to another player
- be inherited by
- cause to pass
- grant authorization or clearance for
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
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