English words for 'a ray gun'
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noun
- A type of ray gun
- An electroshock gun; a taser; a stun gun.
- A gun with electrically powered components, such as the reloader or barrel rotator.
- A gun that uses electricity to vaporize water as the propulsive force on the ballistic projectile.
- A coilgun (magnetic propulsion gun).
- A railgun (electric propulsion gun).
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- A device for shooting.
- (rare) A shooting star.
- Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
- (cricket) A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
- (craps) The player throwing the dice.
- (video games) A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
- (by extension) A loyal advocate or fan.
- (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style, or who speaks his mind during a live or televised event (instead of speaking from a script).
- (slang) A firearm.
- A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
- (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
- (slang) A photographer or cameraman.
- (slang) An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
- (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)
- a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps
noun
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- a high-speed passenger train
- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- (chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- (slang) One year of prison time.
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- (Canada, US, horse racing) The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- 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.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
- (attributive) Very fast (speedy).
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
verb
- (slang, transitive) To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
- (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
noun
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- a counterfeit coin
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- an idle slothful person
- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
- (television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
- (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- (physics, rare) The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
verb
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
- (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To make sluggish.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
noun
- a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
- (sports, rugby, ice hockey) A powerfully hit shot.
- A cannon that combines certain characteristics of field guns and mortars, delivering projectiles with medium velocities, usually with relatively high trajectories; normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers.
verb
noun
- a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
- a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
- used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
- (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
- (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
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- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A colored or gilded border.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (UK) A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- The thread of a screw.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- lace having a square mesh
- a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
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- (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.
- (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
- (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- (programming, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
- resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
- without volition or conscious control
noun
- a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm
- metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
- A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.
- Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.
- Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.
- A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.
- A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.
- A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
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- a chest to hold ammunition
- a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition
- an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
- large watertight chamber used for construction under water
- (military) A chest filled with explosive materials, used like a mine.
- The gate across the entrance to a dry dock.
- (military) A large box to hold ammunition.
- (engineering) An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
- (military) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals).
- (nautical) A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
- (architecture) A coffer.
noun
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- a wall socket
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- an instant of time
- sharp end
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- a V shape
- an outstanding characteristic
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a very small circular shape
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- the object of an activity
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- (video games, board games) A unit of various numerical parameters used in a game, e.g. health, experience, stamina, mana.
- (sports, video games, board games) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- (economics) A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- (music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- Ellipsis of percentage point.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- (by extension) An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- (UK) An electric power socket.
- (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- Ellipsis of point man.
- (archaeology) A spearhead or similar object hafted to a handle.
- (lacrosse, ice hockey, countable, uncountable) The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- (now only in phrases) A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- (heraldry) One of the "corners" of the escutcheon: the base (bottom center) unless a qualifier is added (point dexter, point dexter base, point sinister, point sinister base), generally when separately tinctured. (Compare terrace, point champaine, enté en point.)
- (typography) A unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- (UK) A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- (mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- (cricket, countable, uncountable) A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- (fencing) A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- (mathematics, sciences) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition; a count
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- (heraldry, by extension) An ordinary similar to a pile (but sometimes shorter), extending upward from the base. (Often termed a point pointed.)
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- (usually in the plural) An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- (by extension) A note; a tune.
- (navigation, nautical) A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
- (hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- (nautical) The difference between two points of the compass.
- (automotive, chiefly in the plural) Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- (rail transport, UK, in the plural) A railroad switch.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- (baseball, countable, uncountable) The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- (backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
verb
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- mark with diacritics
- be positionable in a specified manner
- sail close to the wind
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- direct into a position for use
- repair the joints of bricks
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- give a point to
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- be oriented
- (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
- (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- (ambitransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
- (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.
- (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
- (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
- (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
intj
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- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A fat person.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- A group, set, or unit.
- A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
- A dull or lazy person.
- an awkward stupid person
- an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- a compact mass
- a large piece of something without definite shape
verb
- (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
- (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- put together indiscriminately
noun
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
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- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- fasten with a lock
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
noun
- an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice
- a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
- (slang, drugs) A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.
- (figuratively, sports) Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)
- A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
noun
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
- The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
- mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- someone who dives (into water)
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- a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
- (weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
- A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
- (weaponry) A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
verb
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- steal goods; take as spoils
- (transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- (intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.
- (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- (transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- (intransitive) To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing).
- (intransitive) To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- (transitive) To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
- (transitive) To search with intent to steal.
noun
- A device added to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.
- A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.
- (genetics) A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.
- A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
- an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents
- a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene)
- someone who suppresses
noun
- short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
- An attachment to a gun that reduces the sound it emits.
- The muffler of an internal combustion engine.
- Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
- (genetics) Something that prevents or greatly reduces gene expression.
noun
- a portable gun
- a portion of a natural object
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- a share of something
- a separate part of a whole
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- an instance of some kind
- an item that is an instance of some type
- an artistic or literary composition
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a musical work that has been created
- (US, colloquial) A gun.
- An article published in the press.
- (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
- (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
- (military) An artillery gun.
- (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
- (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
- (colloquial) A distance.
- (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
verb
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- to join or unite the pieces of
- create by putting components or members together
- join during spinning
- repair by adding pieces
- (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
- (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
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noun
- (firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
- (slang) An erect penis.
- Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
- a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm
- a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm
- a harshly demanding overseer
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- The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
- Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
- (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
- A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
- (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
- (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
- a chamber within which piston moves
- a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)
- a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
- a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air
verb
noun
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
noun
noun
- A type of ray gun
- An electroshock gun; a taser; a stun gun.
- A gun with electrically powered components, such as the reloader or barrel rotator.
- A gun that uses electricity to vaporize water as the propulsive force on the ballistic projectile.
- A coilgun (magnetic propulsion gun).
- A railgun (electric propulsion gun).
noun
name
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- A device for shooting.
- (rare) A shooting star.
- Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
- (cricket) A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
- (craps) The player throwing the dice.
- (video games) A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
- (by extension) A loyal advocate or fan.
- (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style, or who speaks his mind during a live or televised event (instead of speaking from a script).
- (slang) A firearm.
- A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
- (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
- (slang) A photographer or cameraman.
- (slang) An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
- (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)
- a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps
noun
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- a high-speed passenger train
- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- (chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- (slang) One year of prison time.
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- (Canada, US, horse racing) The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- 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.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
- (attributive) Very fast (speedy).
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
verb
- (slang, transitive) To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
- (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
noun
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- a counterfeit coin
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- an idle slothful person
- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
- (television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
- (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- (physics, rare) The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
verb
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
- (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To make sluggish.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
noun
- a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
- (sports, rugby, ice hockey) A powerfully hit shot.
- A cannon that combines certain characteristics of field guns and mortars, delivering projectiles with medium velocities, usually with relatively high trajectories; normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers.
verb
noun
- a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
- a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
- used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
- (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
- (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
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- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A colored or gilded border.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (UK) A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- The thread of a screw.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- lace having a square mesh
- a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
verb
noun
adj
- (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.
- (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
- (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- (programming, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
- resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
- without volition or conscious control
noun
- a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm
- metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
- A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.
- Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.
- Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.
- A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.
- A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.
- A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
verb
noun
adj
noun
- a chest to hold ammunition
- a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition
- an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
- large watertight chamber used for construction under water
- (military) A chest filled with explosive materials, used like a mine.
- The gate across the entrance to a dry dock.
- (military) A large box to hold ammunition.
- (engineering) An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
- (military) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals).
- (nautical) A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
- (architecture) A coffer.
noun
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- a wall socket
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- an instant of time
- sharp end
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- a V shape
- an outstanding characteristic
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a very small circular shape
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- the object of an activity
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- (video games, board games) A unit of various numerical parameters used in a game, e.g. health, experience, stamina, mana.
- (sports, video games, board games) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- (economics) A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- (music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- Ellipsis of percentage point.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- (by extension) An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- (UK) An electric power socket.
- (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- Ellipsis of point man.
- (archaeology) A spearhead or similar object hafted to a handle.
- (lacrosse, ice hockey, countable, uncountable) The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- (now only in phrases) A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- (heraldry) One of the "corners" of the escutcheon: the base (bottom center) unless a qualifier is added (point dexter, point dexter base, point sinister, point sinister base), generally when separately tinctured. (Compare terrace, point champaine, enté en point.)
- (typography) A unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- (UK) A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- (mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- (cricket, countable, uncountable) A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- (fencing) A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- (mathematics, sciences) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition; a count
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- (heraldry, by extension) An ordinary similar to a pile (but sometimes shorter), extending upward from the base. (Often termed a point pointed.)
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- (usually in the plural) An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- (by extension) A note; a tune.
- (navigation, nautical) A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
- (hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- (nautical) The difference between two points of the compass.
- (automotive, chiefly in the plural) Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- (rail transport, UK, in the plural) A railroad switch.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- (baseball, countable, uncountable) The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- (backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
verb
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- mark with diacritics
- be positionable in a specified manner
- sail close to the wind
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- direct into a position for use
- repair the joints of bricks
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- give a point to
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- be oriented
- (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
- (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- (ambitransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
- (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.
- (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
- (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
- (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
intj
noun
noun
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A fat person.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- A group, set, or unit.
- A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
- A dull or lazy person.
- an awkward stupid person
- an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- a compact mass
- a large piece of something without definite shape
verb
- (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
- (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- put together indiscriminately
noun
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
verb
- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- fasten with a lock
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
noun
- an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice
- a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
- (slang, drugs) A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.
- (figuratively, sports) Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)
- A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
noun
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
- The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
- mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- someone who dives (into water)
noun
- a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
- (weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
- A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
- (weaponry) A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
verb
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- steal goods; take as spoils
- (transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- (intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.
- (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- (transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- (intransitive) To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing).
- (intransitive) To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- (transitive) To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
- (transitive) To search with intent to steal.
noun
- A device added to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.
- A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.
- (genetics) A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.
- A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
- an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents
- a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene)
- someone who suppresses
noun
- short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
- An attachment to a gun that reduces the sound it emits.
- The muffler of an internal combustion engine.
- Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
- (genetics) Something that prevents or greatly reduces gene expression.
noun
- a portable gun
- a portion of a natural object
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- a share of something
- a separate part of a whole
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- an instance of some kind
- an item that is an instance of some type
- an artistic or literary composition
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a musical work that has been created
- (US, colloquial) A gun.
- An article published in the press.
- (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
- (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
- (military) An artillery gun.
- (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
- (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
- (colloquial) A distance.
- (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
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- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- to join or unite the pieces of
- create by putting components or members together
- join during spinning
- repair by adding pieces
- (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
- (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
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- (firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
- (slang) An erect penis.
- Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
- a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm
- a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm
- a harshly demanding overseer
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- The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
- Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
- (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
- A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
- (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
- (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
- a chamber within which piston moves
- a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)
- a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
- a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air
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- a kind of gun emplacement
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
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- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
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