dummy whist
mort
dummy
miss
phantom
skat
singles
thimblerig
shell game
opening
triple play
hide and go seek
grand slam
chest one's cards
free ride
hide-and-seek
pool
quad
deck
monte
pizeball
play
hand-sling
maul
comp stomp
checking
high/low
bracket
blindman's bluff
blindman's buff
statues
exhibition game
set
card removal
exhibition match
split pot
pawn cube
early shower
tredille
interactive fiction
speel
split decision
game
sending off
rassling
tackle
grappling
wrestling
player versus player
ragman
speed stacking
inlane
king of the castle
RPG
spin the bottle
short whist
tetherball
foul
eldest hand
play off
whist
sandbag
close-quarter fighting
hotcockles
jackstraws
spillikins
position
elder hand
long whist
boss rush
fat
turn-based
Thumb Master
cockshy
deadwood
packing
call
formation
halftime
duplicate
jingling
three of a kind
winkle squeeze
chop
cute-'em-up
fourhanded
ghost
baulk-line
side
distribution
guessing game
balkline
front row
anchorman
string line
free transfer
turn-based
duplicate
fourhanded
dummy whist
mort
dummy
miss
phantom
skat
singles
thimblerig
shell game
opening
triple play
hide and go seek
grand slam
free ride
hide-and-seek
pool
quad
deck
monte
pizeball
play
hand-sling
maul
comp stomp
checking
high/low
bracket
blindman's bluff
blindman's buff
statues
exhibition game
set
card removal
exhibition match
split pot
pawn cube
early shower
tredille
interactive fiction
speel
split decision
game
sending off
rassling
tackle
grappling
wrestling
player versus player
ragman
speed stacking
inlane
king of the castle
RPG
spin the bottle
short whist
tetherball
eldest hand
whist
sandbag
close-quarter fighting
hotcockles
jackstraws
spillikins
position
elder hand
long whist
boss rush
fat
Thumb Master
cockshy
deadwood
packing
call
formation
halftime
jingling
three of a kind
winkle squeeze
chop
cute-'em-up
ghost
baulk-line
side
distribution
guessing game
balkline
front row
anchorman
string line
free transfer
chest one's cards
foul
play off
play
miss
noun
- A variety of dummy whist for three players.
- A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
- The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
- The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
- A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
- Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
- A three-year-old salmon.
- A great quantity or number.
noun
- A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- A stupid person.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
- A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- An unused parameter or value.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
adv
verb
noun
- In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- A failure to obtain or accomplish.
- The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to hit.
- A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
- A kept woman; a mistress.
verb
- To fail to help the hand of a player.
- To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
- To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- To fail to attend.
- To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- To fail to score (a goal).
- To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
- To avoid; to escape.
- To fail to achieve or attain.
- To fail to understand;
- To fail to hit.
noun
- A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
- A ghost or apparition.
- Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
- A test object. A test phantom is an object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue.
adj
noun
- The first few moves in a game.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The initial period when a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- A time available in a schedule.
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- An act or instance of beginning.
adj
noun
- The bid and winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand.
- The winning of all available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- The situation in which a racer starts from pole position, then wins first place while leading during the entire race, while also recording the fastest lap of the race.
- The hitting of a home run with the bases loaded.
- The situation in which the jammer laps the opposing team's jammer, scoring five points.
noun
- A hand in which a player can remain without betting further money.
- The practice of buying and selling shares or other securities without actually having the capital to cover the trade.
- An opportunity or benefit which has no cost, especially one enjoyed or undertaken at the expense of others.
verb
noun
- A set of players in quadrille etc.
- A localized glow of light.
- In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
- The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
- A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
- A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
- A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- A supply of resources.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
verb
noun
- A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- A quadriplegic person.
- A skate with four wheels.
- A quadcopter.
- A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre.
- Quadruplex videotape.
- The quadriceps muscle.
- A quadrupel beer.
- A quad bike (from quadricycle)
- The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- A quadruplet (infant).
- A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
- A serving of four shots of espresso.
- A quadrilateral.
- A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
- A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.
verb
- To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
- To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
- To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
- to ride a quad bike
adj
noun
- A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
- A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
- A set of slides for a presentation.
- The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
- A pack or set of playing cards.
- A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
- The floor.
- The stage.
verb
noun
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
verb
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
- The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
- "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
- One of several ranges of numbers.
- The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
- A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
- A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
- Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
- A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
verb
- To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
- To set aside, discount, ignore.
- To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
- To place in the same category.
- To enclose in typographical brackets.
- In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
- To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
- To support by means of mechanical brackets.
- To mark distinctly for special treatment.
noun
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
verb
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
adj
noun
- A particular instance of playing a game.
- The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- A school subject during which sports are practised.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- wild animals hunted for food.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
verb
- To gamble.
- To play card games, board games, or video games.
- To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adj
noun
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- A block and tackle.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- Clothing.
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
verb
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
verb
- To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- To become clogged.
- To become entangled.
- To come into contact or collide with.
- To make dirty.
- To besmirch.
- To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- To hit outside of the baselines.
- To clog or obstruct.
- To entangle.
- To commit a foul.
noun
- A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
- A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
adj
- Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
noun
- A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
- A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
- An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
- A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
verb
- To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
- To construct a barrier of sandbags around.
- To pretend to drink early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".
- To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage.
- To deceive someone by pretending to be weak, or (card games) by pretending to have a weak hand.
noun
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- A fat person.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- An erection.
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
adj
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bountiful.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- Fertile; productive.
- Thick; large.
- Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- Bulbous; rotund.
noun
- Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- Cards that have been discarded.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
noun
- The forming of players into a scrum.
- The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
- Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
- Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
- The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
- Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
- A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
- The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
noun
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- a demand
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a brief social visit
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
- a request
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
verb
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- utter a sudden loud cry
- order, request, or command to come
- pay a brief visit
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- make a stop in a harbour
- demand payment of (a loan)
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- indicate a decision in regard to
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- present for redemption before maturation
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- order or request or give a command for
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- consider or regard as being
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
noun
- An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- The act of assembling a group or structure.
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
- Something possessing structure or form.
- A layer of rock of common origin.
- A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
adj
- In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players.
- Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.
noun
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- The game of duplicate bridge.
- The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
- An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
verb
noun
- A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A complete shipment.
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A woodchopping competition.
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A jaw of an animal.
- An IRC channel operator.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
verb
- To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To vary or shift suddenly.
- To remove the final character from (a text string).
- To interrupt; with in or out.
- to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- To stab.
- To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- To seal a license or passport.
- To chap or crack.
noun
- A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
- A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.
- Remnant; the remains of a(n).
- Perceived or listed but not real.
- Abandoned.
- A covert (and deniable) agent.
- Transparent or translucent.
- An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
- Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
- White or pale.
- Substitute.
- A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
- A nonexistent person invented to obtain some fraudulent benefit.
- An understudy.
- The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
- Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of him/her.
- An image of a file or hard disk.
- Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
- A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
- An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
- An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
- A ghostwriter.
- An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
verb
- To copy a file or hard drive image.
- To provide the speaking or singing voice for another actor, who is lip-syncing.
- To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
- To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
- To perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media.
- To kill.
- To ghostwrite.
- To imbue with a ghost-like hue or effect.
- To sail seemingly without wind.
- To appear or move without warning, quickly and quietly; to slip.
- To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison without the prior knowledge of other inmates.
noun
- One set of competitors in a game.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- A sports team.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- Sidespin; english
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
adv
verb
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
adj
noun
- The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- Anything distributed; portion; share.
- The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
- A set of bundled software components
- The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
noun
- The row of players who participate in a scrum with direct contact with the opposing scrum.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see front, row.
- In an auditorium or sports venue, the line of side-by-side seats closest to the stage, playing field, or other location where the activity of interest is occurring.
English words for 'a form of whist with three players; four hands are dealt with the hand opposite the dealer being face up'
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