supporting structure
framework
frame
scaffold
undersupport
pillar
shelf
operculum
supporter
haunch
support
poy
skeleton
bridge
enclosure
station
backstay
formation
endome
campshed
shell
windbreak
sustentaculum
metastructure
supergaussian
basiconic
posteroventral
overarching
posterodorsal
preapical
temple
petrotympanic
iterable
capsule
underframe
overbridging
cap
shore
fenestrule
desktop
pseudocusp
slate
roof
undercarriage
oversheet
egg crate
lug
boarding
house
foldover
skeletal frame
mat
tab
overshroud
scaffoldish
clip
piedouche
pseudometaloph
tray
individualizer
matchmark
face
letterboard
palmation
contact geometry
bar-shaped
overplate
cap sheet
stud
tabletop
deionizer
screen
broadside
cover
space
modillion
dais
covert
superposition
polyonym
squama
framing
concealment
king
turbiniform
anacoluthon
incisiform
groundplan
canopy
area
objective
parasol
desktop
foldover
scaffoldish
bar-shaped
tabletop
turbiniform
incisiform
broadside
supporting structure
framework
frame
scaffold
undersupport
pillar
shelf
operculum
supporter
support
poy
skeleton
bridge
enclosure
station
backstay
formation
shell
windbreak
sustentaculum
metastructure
supergaussian
basiconic
posteroventral
overarching
posterodorsal
preapical
temple
petrotympanic
iterable
capsule
underframe
overbridging
cap
shore
fenestrule
pseudocusp
slate
roof
undercarriage
oversheet
egg crate
lug
boarding
house
skeletal frame
mat
tab
clip
piedouche
pseudometaloph
tray
individualizer
matchmark
letterboard
palmation
contact geometry
overplate
cap sheet
stud
deionizer
screen
cover
space
modillion
dais
covert
superposition
polyonym
squama
framing
concealment
king
anacoluthon
groundplan
area
objective
parasol
haunch
endome
campshed
overshroud
face
canopy
noun
- a structure supporting or containing something
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- a single drawing in a comic strip
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
verb
noun
- A structure that provides support for some other material.
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
verb
noun
- Something resembling such a structure.
- A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
- A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
- An essential part of something that provides support.
- The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
verb
noun
- A structure which serves as a cover or lid.
- A covering flap in animals, such as a gill cover.
- A gum flap covering (part of) a partially erupted tooth, usually a wisdom tooth.
- The lidlike portion of a moss sporangium or of a fruit that detaches to allow the dispersal of spores or seeds.
- One of several flaps of cerebral cortex covering the insula.
noun
- Something that supports a structure such as a building or a sculpture.
- A person who provides moral or physical support to another; an attendant participating in a ceremony or procession.
- Someone who is a fan of a certain sports team or sportsperson.
- A garter worn around the leg to support a sock or stocking.
- A person who supports, promotes, advocates or champions a cause, movement, or political party; an adherent.
- An animal or figure that supports a shield in a coat of arms.
- Something that supports another thing.
verb
noun
noun
- supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
- the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
- aiding the cause or policy or interests of
- something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- documentary validation
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- any device that bears the weight of another thing
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
verb
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- support materially or financially
- be behind; approve of
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- adopt as a belief
- support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- argue or speak in defense of
- play a subordinate role to (another performer)
- be a regular customer or client of
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
noun
- A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- A very thin person.
- The network of veins in a leaf.
- A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
- A very thin form of light-faced type.
- Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
noun
- Anything supported at the ends and serving to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
- An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
- A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
- A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- A similar position in gymnastics.
- A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
- A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
- A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
- A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
- The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
- An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
- The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
- An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
- A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
- The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
- A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
- Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
- A connection, real or abstract.
- An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
- A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
- The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
- A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
- A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
- An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
- A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
- A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
verb
noun
- A place where some object is provided.
- A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- Standing; rank; position.
- A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
- Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- A gas station, service station.
- The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- A military base.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A ground transportation depot.
- A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- A broadcasting entity.
- Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
verb
noun
- A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.
- A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
noun
- Something possessing structure or form.
- An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- The act of assembling a group or structure.
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
- A layer of rock of common origin.
- A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
noun
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
verb
noun
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a shortened version of a written work
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
verb
noun
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- An uppercase or capital letter.
- A recording or screenshot.
- Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
- The top part of a mushroom.
- A place on a national team; an international appearance.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
- A lie or exaggeration.
- The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
- A large size of writing paper.
- A crown for covering a tooth.
- A capitalist.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
- capillary
- Capitalization.
- A protective cover or seal.
- A capacitor.
- A capsule of a drug.
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
- A bullet used to shoot someone.
- A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
verb
- To set an upper limit on something.
- To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- To lie over or on top of something.
- To convert text to uppercase.
- To make something even more wonderful at the end.
- To lie; to tell a lie.
- To select to play for the national team.
- To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
- To select a player to play for a specified side.
- To cover or seal with a cap.
- To surpass or outdo.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- To deprive of a cap.
noun
- An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
- A list of affiliated candidates for an election.
- A record of money owed.
- A tablet computer.
- A thin plate of any material; a flake.
- A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- The bluish-grey colour of most slate.
- A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.
- A roofing-tile made of slate.
verb
- To cover with slate.
- To schedule.
- To criticise harshly.
- To set a dog upon (a person).
- To anticipate or strongly expect.
- To nominate, appoint, or designate.
adj
noun
- A grid-like support structure or scaffolding.
- 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 device for restricting the spread of light that fits into the softbox of a diffuser panel.
noun
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- An ear or ear lobe.
- A lugworm.
- A lug nut.
- A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A lugsail.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- A request for money, as for political purposes.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- A rod or pole.
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- Anything that moves slowly.
verb
noun
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- House music.
- A workhouse.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- A theatre.
- An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- Size and quality of residential accommodations.
- The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- Lotto; bingo.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- The fourth Lenormand card.
- A place of rest or repose.
verb
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- To eat.
- To keep within a structure or container.
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
noun
- a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
- a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
- sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports
- a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven
- the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
- a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
verb
adj
noun
- A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
- Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate
- A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
- An ear.
- A student of Cambridge University.
- A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
- A tabloid newspaper.
- The cost or bill for anything.
- A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
- A cigarette.
- A tableau curtain.
- The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
- A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
- A fast march or run with full kit.
- A restaurant bill.
verb
noun
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- A newspaper clipping.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- The condition of something, its state.
- A removable magazine of a firearm.
- A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
verb
- To curtail; to cut short.
- To grip tightly.
- To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To strike with the hand.
- to grab or take stealthily
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
verb
- To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
- To have the front in a certain direction.
- To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.
- To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- To have as an opponent.
- To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- To be the batsman on strike.
- To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
noun
- A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
- The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- The mouth.
- The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
- One's facial expression.
- A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- The front surface of a bat.
- The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- The frontal aspect of something.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
- The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- Public image; outward appearance.
- Presence; sight; front.
- An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- The directed force of something.
- Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A typeface.
- A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
noun
- the study of such structures.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see contact, geometry.
- Given a smooth manifold of odd dimensionality, a distribution (subset) of the tangent bundle that satisfies the condition of complete nonintegrability, or equivalently may be locally defined as the kernel of a maximally nondegenerate differential 1-form;
noun
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.
- A stud bolt.
- A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A group of such animals.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- A small round earring.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- A sexually attractive male.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
verb
noun
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
- a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
- the personnel of the film industry
- a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
verb
adv
verb
adj
noun
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a speech of violent denunciation
- all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
- the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern
- the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship
noun
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations
- a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink
- a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else
- a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent)
verb
- provide with a covering or cause to be covered
- form a cover over
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- provide for
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
- travel across or pass over
- be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism
- hold within range of an aimed firearm
- to take an action to protect against future problems
- hide from view or knowledge
- protect or defend (a position in a game)
- maintain a check on; especially by patrolling
- protect by insurance
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- invest with a large or excessive amount of something
- help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities
- be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of
- spread over a surface to conceal or protect
- cover as if with a shroud
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- put something on top of something else
- play a higher card than the one previously played
- be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game
- sit on (eggs)
- clothe, as if for protection from the elements
noun
- an area reserved for some particular purpose
- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
- the interval between two times
- a blank area
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
verb
noun
- The placing of one thing on top of another.
- The deposition of one stratum over another; the principle that in a series of sedimentary strata, the lower strata are the older.
- The situation in quantum mechanics where two or more quantum states are added together (superposed) to yield another valid quantum state.
noun
- Something that has a preeminent position.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king skin.
- A powerful or majorly influential person.
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
- The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- A king-sized bed.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
noun
- A diagram showing the physical layout of a set, especially the placement of structures on the stage, as opposed to items on the walls or suspended from the ceiling.
- A framework or pattern showing the form of something, without all the details.
- A hypothetical anatomical form from which members of a clade are adaptations.
- A diagram, usually to scale, showing the layout of the ground level of a building or other physical structure; floorplan.
verb
noun
- A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
- The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
- In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
noun
- a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
- a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- a subject of study
- a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
- a particular environment or walk of life
- the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary
noun
- A material object that physically exists.
- a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
- The objective case.
- A goal that is striven for.
adj
- Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
- Based on observed facts; without subjective assessment.
- Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
noun
- A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun.
- A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.
- The parasol mushroom, Macrolepiota procera
- A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.
- Any of various Asian species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Neurothemis.
verb
English words for 'a structure that serves to support something'
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