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noun
- An obstacle or hindrance.
- The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
- The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
verb
- To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
- Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
- To cause (+ bare infinitive).
- To allow the release of (a fluid).
- To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
- To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.
- To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
noun
- An obstacle or impediment.
- A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The lists in a tournament.
- A structure that bars passage.
- A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
noun
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- a means or way of escaping
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
verb
- run away from confinement
- fail to experience
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
noun
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- A step-like recession in a wall.
- The required distance between a structure and a road.
noun
- A potential problem or source of trouble.
- An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
- A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or non-function.
- An attempt to disprove or refute someone's argument, usually in a deceptive or disingenuous way.
- An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
abbrev
- Understand you; comprehend you.
- Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
- Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
- Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
- Got you by surprise; exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
noun
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a change from one state to the opposite state
- turning in an opposite direction or position
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
- turning in the opposite direction
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
noun
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a relation of direct opposition
- the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed
- the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design
- (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction
- turning in the opposite direction
adj
verb
- change to the contrary
- turn inside out or upside down
- rule against
- cancel officially
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
adj
noun
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an impact (as from a collision)
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- a strong current of air
- street names for cocaine
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
verb
- exhale hard
- be blowing or storming
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- make a sound as if blown
- shape by blowing
- be inadequate or objectionable
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- play or sound a wind instrument
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- cause to move by means of an air current
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- leave; informal or rude
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- show off
- allow to regain its breath
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- burst suddenly
noun
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- A squabble.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
verb
- To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- To become entangled.
- To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
- To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
verb
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
pron
noun
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
- A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
verb
- To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
- To hatch.
- To seize, as though with claws.
- To grip or grasp tightly.
- To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
noun
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
adj
noun
- That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
- A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
- The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
- The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
- The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
- The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
- Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)
- An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
- The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
verb
- To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.
- To ensnare.
- To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
- To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
adj
- Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
- Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
- The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
noun
- The penetration of the opposition's defence.
- An advance through and past enemy lines.
- Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
- The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
noun
- A state of incompatibility or disagreement.
- A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
- A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear between body parts or in the substance of an organ; a sulcus.
- A break or slit in tissue usually at the junction of skin and mucous membrane.
verb
adj
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- indicating hostility or enmity
- presaging ill fortune
adj
adv
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- unfavorably or with disapproval
- with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
noun
noun
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A repair or corrective action.
- A determination of location.
- A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
verb
- To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
- To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- To mend, to repair.
- To prepare (food or drink).
- To map a (point or subset) to itself.
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
prep
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
verb
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
noun
noun
- An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.
- A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
- A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
noun
- The feeling of annoyance at impassibility from resistance.
- A thing that frustrates.
- The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
- The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
- Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
prep_phrase
noun
- A difficulty or predicament.
- Crime, offence, wrongdoing.
- Any of a number of criminal offences incurring similar penalties to the original offence of praemunire.
- The penalty for this offence.
- The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. The offence was created by the Statute of Praemunire 1393 (16 Richard II, chapter 5), and abolished by the Criminal Law Act 1967 (chapter 58).
- The writ charging a person with this offence, the writ of praemunire facias.
verb
noun
- A stumble or misstep.
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A trip-switch or cut-out.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A flock of wigeons.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A mechanical cutout device.
- A faux pas, a social error.
verb
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- To journey, to make a trip.
adj
noun
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- Extreme stupidity.
- A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
- A suspension which resolves upwards.
- The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
noun
- An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
- The hoopoe.
- A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
- A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
- A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
- A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
- A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
- The game of basketball.
- The rim part of a basketball net.
- A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- A jockey.
- A hoop earring.
- A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
verb
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