flake
bit
fleck
chip
scrap
jag
chipping
cutting
cut-out
scraplet
slice
fent
chunk
chunklet
scrawling
snippet
snipping
snip
reborrowing
snatch
fleak
backwrap
palimpsest
smithereens
breakage
undercut
bijou
section
fragment
fid
oddment
decerption
raggle
Frankenstein's monster
cleft
dust
junk
debris
slip
rubble
detritus
daud
sidepiece
check
clipping
breakface
spawl
spall
strip
metal filing
plucking
smithereened
crushed
shard
break off
cut off
sherd
knap
fragmented
scramb
microslice
macrofragment
rerollable
inclosed
decloaker
burr
breastbeam
enfolding
smack
flattening
filing
collop
odd
minislice
sliver
smithereen
tatter
offcutting
morcellation
minim
ruche
fritter
posterboard
shaving
weaving
tearstrip
rags and tatters
smithereened
crushed
fragmented
inclosed
flake
bit
fleck
chip
scrap
jag
chipping
cutting
cut-out
scraplet
slice
fent
chunk
chunklet
scrawling
snippet
snipping
snip
reborrowing
snatch
fleak
backwrap
palimpsest
smithereens
breakage
undercut
bijou
section
fragment
fid
oddment
decerption
raggle
Frankenstein's monster
cleft
dust
junk
debris
slip
rubble
detritus
daud
sidepiece
check
clipping
breakface
spawl
spall
strip
metal filing
plucking
shard
sherd
scramb
microslice
macrofragment
rerollable
decloaker
burr
breastbeam
enfolding
smack
flattening
filing
collop
odd
minislice
sliver
smithereen
tatter
offcutting
morcellation
minim
ruche
fritter
posterboard
shaving
weaving
tearstrip
rags and tatters
chip
break off
cut off
knap
noun
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small fragment
- a small piece or quantity of something
- an indefinitely short time
- an instance of some kind
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
noun
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- the act of chipping something
verb
noun
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- A sharp projection.
- A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- A medical injection, a jab.
- A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- A flap, a tear in a clothing
- A cleft or division.
- A fit, spell, outburst.
- A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
verb
noun
- a piece cut off from the main part of something
- the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of cutting something into parts
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of diluting something
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
adj
noun
- A piece cut out of something.
- Any of several devices that halt the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.
- A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
- A railway cutting.
- A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage.
- A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee.
- A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.
- The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.
- Clip art.
noun
- A part of something that has been separated.
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
- A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
- A segment of a comedian's performance.
verb
noun
noun
- Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
- The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
- A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
- Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
- Memory that has been erased and re-written.
- Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
verb
noun
- Something that has been broken.
- The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
- A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- The act of breaking.
noun
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- A blow dealt upward.
- A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
verb
- To undermine.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
adj
noun
- A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- A piece of residential land; a plot.
- Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadan surveys and (historical) American land grants.
- A sequence of rock layers.
- A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- A right inverse.
- A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
verb
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
noun
- A small thick piece of anything.
- A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
- A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
- The penis.
- A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
- A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.
verb
noun
- A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
- A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.
- A varied collection (of items).
- A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
- Something strange or unusual.
- An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
- Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
- A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
noun
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- A fish, the sole.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A slipway.
- A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A slipdress.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- A mistake or error.
- A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- An outside covering or case.
- A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
verb
- To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- To move down; to slide.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
- To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- To err.
- To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
noun
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a written order directing a bank to pay money
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- the bill in a restaurant
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
- the act of inspecting or verifying
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard)
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
- obstructing an opponent in ice hockey
- (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king
verb
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- make an examination or investigation
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- slow the growth or development of
- be verified or confirmed; pass inspection
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- consign for shipment on a vehicle
- hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping
- abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey
- stop in a chase especially when scent is lost
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
- decline to initiate betting
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- place into check
- write out a check on a bank account
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- verify by consulting a source or authority
- arrest the motion (of something) abruptly
- make cracks or chinks in
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
noun
- A piece of something removed by clipping.
- The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
- The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
- Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's legs after approaching from behind.
- An article clipped from a newspaper.
- A short form (of a word) created by removing syllables.
noun
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
verb
- take away possessions from someone
- get undressed
- remove the surface from
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- lay bare
- steal goods; take as spoils
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- strip the cured leaves from
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- take off or remove
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
noun
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- And when his body was against the burr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
- A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had high burr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
- A rough humming sound.
- 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
- A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280
- A burr knot or burl.
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry
- A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
- A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
- A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- The ear lobe.
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called a burr.
- burr or ring of iron behind the hand
- 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290
- 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
verb
noun
noun
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A group of jellyfish.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- Heroin.
verb
- To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To slap or hit someone.
- To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
- To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- To get the flavor of.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- To make a smacking sound.
adv
noun
adj
- About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- Used or employed for odd jobs.
- Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- Numbered with an odd number.
- Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- Not regular or planned.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- On the left.
- Out of the way, secluded.
- Numerically indivisible by two.
noun
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
verb
noun
- A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
- A small fish; a minnow.
- A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
- The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- A short poetical encomium.
noun
verb
- To break into small pieces or fragments.
- To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- To sinter.
- To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
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