electric socket
harp holder
socket
plugpoint
pin wrench
female
Edison screw
strapper
feather
wall plug
lighthead
plug
television-camera tube
television pickup tube
thimble
snugger
trouble light
anglepoise
power tap
jack
autogating
photomicrosensor
strip lighting
track light
polecat
striplight
tubelight
egg crate
plug in
point
light fitting
luminaire
blackout lamp
connect
circline
plug into
light fixture
electric light
starter
photoswitch
embedder
male plug
board finger
light-duty
pen
Edison bulb
lunette
lampholder
fenestella
swag light
inky-dinky
cranial orbit
dyno torch
VSS
orbital cavity
power point
torch
shade
lamp shade
socketed
plugged in
lampshade
aperture
reed knife
bead
occluder
autotransformer
rose
track lighting
eye hook
light source
illuminating
dimmer switch
troffer
sealed beam
aureole
light
festoon
relocatable power tap
chamber lamp
conduit bender
light switch
rebulb
spud
photophore
choke out
sconce
reflecting
neon glow lamp
clear
worm
rush holder
trombone
emergency light
female
light-duty
socketed
plugged in
illuminating
reflecting
clear
electric socket
harp holder
socket
plugpoint
pin wrench
Edison screw
strapper
feather
wall plug
lighthead
plug
television-camera tube
television pickup tube
thimble
snugger
trouble light
anglepoise
power tap
jack
autogating
photomicrosensor
strip lighting
track light
polecat
striplight
tubelight
egg crate
point
light fitting
luminaire
blackout lamp
circline
light fixture
electric light
starter
photoswitch
embedder
male plug
board finger
pen
Edison bulb
lunette
lampholder
fenestella
swag light
inky-dinky
cranial orbit
dyno torch
orbital cavity
power point
torch
shade
lamp shade
lampshade
aperture
reed knife
bead
occluder
autotransformer
rose
track lighting
eye hook
light source
dimmer switch
troffer
sealed beam
aureole
light
festoon
relocatable power tap
chamber lamp
conduit bender
light switch
spud
photophore
sconce
neon glow lamp
worm
rush holder
trombone
emergency light
plug in
connect
plug into
rebulb
choke out
noun
- A wire framework that surrounds a lightbulb which fits into a socket at its base and which is topped by a finial for holding a lampshade.
- A framework that fits around the neck and holds a harmonica up to the mouth so that it can be played while leaving the wearer's hands free, usually in order to play another instrument.
noun
- An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
verb
adj
- Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
- Lacking the F factor, and able to receive DNA from another bacterium which does have this factor (a male).
- Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
- Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
- Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
noun
- A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
- An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
- A human of the feminine sex.
- A bacterium which lacks the F factor, and is able to receive DNA from another bacterium which has that factor.
- A female connector, pipe fitting, etc.
noun
- A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
verb
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- To tread, as a cockerel.
- To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- To move softly, like a feather.
noun
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
- A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- A high, tapering silk hat.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- A drug dealer.
- A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- A worthless horse.
- A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
verb
noun
- A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
- As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
- A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.
- A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.
- A thimble or similar object used in thimblerig (“a game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three thimbles or small cups a pea-sized object has been placed after the person operating the game rapidly rearranges them”).
- A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.
verb
noun
- A ring that fits tightly around a cable, rope or wire, holding it in place or preventing leakage around any hole through which it passes.
- A threaded plastic tube used to clamp blood vessels during surgery.
- A type of latch that operates by providing spring tension between a door or window and its frame.
- Moveable brackets for keeping small items secure on a shelf.
noun
- an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
- a small worthless amount
- someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
- immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
- a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
- game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
- small flag indicating a ship's nationality
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
- tool for exerting pressure or lifting
- any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
- male donkey
verb
noun
- A device for restricting the spread of light that fits into the softbox of a diffuser panel.
- A self-contained class that has no collaboration or interaction with any other class, and which is the sole responsibility of a single teacher.
- An egg carton; A specialized container for eggs which has multiple indentations for holding individual eggs.
- A surface or insert that has regularly spaced holes or indentations.
- A crate used for transporting eggs.
- A foam pad with multiple indentations giving it a texture similar to that of an egg carton.
- A style of open roof that consists of horizontal supports in a grid pattern.
- A grid-like support structure or scaffolding.
noun
- An electric power socket.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- 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).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- 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.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- 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.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
verb
- plug into an outlet
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- make a logical or causal connection
- be or become joined or united or linked
- join by means of communication equipment
- land on or hit solidly
- join for the purpose of communication
- be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation
- establish a rapport or relationship
- establish communication with someone
- hit or play a ball successfully
verb
noun
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.
- A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- A dog that rouses game.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- A starting pitcher.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
noun
- A light pen.
- Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A female swan.
- Penalty.
- A writer, or their style.
- The bullpen.
- Marks of ink left by a pen.
- A wing.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.
- An arsonist.
- A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.
- A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch.
- A torch drive ("a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion").
verb
noun
- a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- a position of relative inferiority
- a slight amount or degree of difference
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
verb
adj
noun
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- Various small, round solid objects.
verb
noun
- An implement designed to temporarily block light to one eye.
- An object that partially or completely impedes the amount of light reaching the eye.
- A catheter-delivered device that blocks a hole in the wall of a heart, often having an umbrella-type design and folded up until the catheter arrives at the area of the defect in the heart. Once in place the occluder is unfolded on both sides of the defect so that pressure from both sides keeps it in place.
noun
- The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
- Something resembling a rose flower.
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
- The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- A flower of the rose plant.
- A graph with only one vertex.
verb
adj
noun
- any device serving as a source of illumination
- (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- a particular perspective or aspect of a situation
- the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
- an illuminated area
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- a person regarded very fondly
- having abundant light or illumination
- mental understanding as an enlightening experience
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
- public awareness
- a visual warning signal
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
adj
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- demanding little effort; not burdensome
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- very thin and insubstantial
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- having little importance
- intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
- silly or trivial
- designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
- having relatively few calories
- (of sleep) easily disturbed
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
adv
verb
- introduce light into
- begin to smoke
- to come to rest, settle
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- alight from (a horse)
- start or maintain a fire in
adj
- of comparatively little physical weight or density
- (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
- of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
- not great in degree or quantity or number
- psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
- characterized by or emitting light
- of little intensity or power or force
- (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
noun
- A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
- Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
- Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
- An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
- A raised cable with light globes attached.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
verb
noun
- A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- A testicle.
- A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A hole in a sock.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- A potato.
verb
- To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
- To dig up weeds with a spud.
name
verb
- To prevent (light) from passing through.
- To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
- To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
- To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
- To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.
- To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.
noun
- A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
- An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
- A fixed seat or shelf.
- A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
- A head or a skull.
- A fragment of a floe of ice.
- A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
- A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
- A squinch.
verb
adj
- allowing light to pass through
- readily apparent to the mind
- accurately stated or described
- free from clouds or mist or haze
adj
- free from confusion or doubt
- affording free passage or view
- free from contact or proximity or connection
- characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
- clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- free from flaw or blemish or impurity
- clear of charges or deductions
- easily deciphered
- freed from any question of guilt
- characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
noun
adv
verb
- rid of obstructions
- make a way or path by removing objects
- become clear
- grant authorization or clearance for
- remove
- go unchallenged; be approved
- be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
- go away or disappear
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
- clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
- yield as a net profit
- make as a net profit
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- sell to get rid of
- pass an inspection or receive authorization
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- settle, as of a debt
- make clear, bright, light, or translucent
- rid of instructions or data
- remove (people) from a building
- remove the occupants of
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
noun
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
verb
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
- The common European bittern.
- A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
verb
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