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noun
- The practice by police of apprehending someone but then letting them go without making an arrest.
- A variety of angling where the fish are released after capture, as a conservation measure.
- The immigration policy of releasing illegal immigrants while they await a hearing, rather than detaining them.
- The practice of a patent holding company buying a patent, offering a license to its members, and then selling or donating the patent after a certain period.
verb
- To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.
- To insert (a word, etc.) without making a line break or new paragraph (so that it is not free-hanging).
- To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage.
- To start a new regime slowly.
- To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage. (transitive sense)
- To score (a try).
- To alter the position of matter to fill vacant space.
adj
noun
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
verb
noun
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
- (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal
- anything worn or placed about the neck
- a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part
- the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot
- a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it
- necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck
- a figurative restraint
verb
noun
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
verb
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
verb
- To arrest (someone) for a crime.
- For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
- To break.
- To exceed a score of 21.
- To break in (an animal).
- An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- To ejaculate; to eject semen.
- To refute an established opening.
- To lose all of one's chips.
- To reduce in rank.
noun
- The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A player who fails to meet expectations.
- A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- A disappointment.
- The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
adj
verb
- To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
- to rescue.
- To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- To perform summary execution.
- to put to use.
noun
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
noun
- A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- A person.
- An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
- Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger
- Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.
- Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
- Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
verb
- To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang.
- To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
- To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
verb
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
noun
- someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
- a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
- a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
- synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction
verb
- to expose someone to the authorities.
- To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
- to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
- To shine brightly and steadily.
- To emit light as if heated.
- To gaze especially passionately at something.
- To display intense emotion.
- To make hot; to flush.
- To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
- To radiate thermal heat.
noun
noun
- A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
verb
noun
- Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
- A measure of such ability; volume
- The maximum amount that can be held
- Electrical capacitance.
- Mental ability; the power to learn
- The maximum that can be produced.
- The ability to hold, receive, or absorb
- The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
- A role; the position in which one functions
- Capability; the ability to perform some task
- A faculty; the potential for growth and development
adj
verb
- To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
noun
- An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
- An instance or event as a topic of study.
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- A suitcase.
- A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- Four of a kind.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
adj
verb
noun
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
- A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- The combination of process and actuator.
- A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
verb
- To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- To set up; to install; to instate.
- To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- To furnish or supply with plants.
- To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- To place in the ground.
noun
- A police station or prison.
- The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
- A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
verb
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
adj
- Characterized by police presence or activity.
- Stolen.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- Extremely fast or with great speed.
- Sexually aroused; randy.
- Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- Feverish.
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- Popular; in demand.
- Easily provoked to anger.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- Fresh; just released.
- Having or giving off a high temperature.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier.
- Extremely attracted to.
- Electrically charged.
- Radioactive.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
adv
verb
noun
- a means of enforcement
- hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- something resembling the tooth of an animal
- toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
- one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
verb
- To restrain someone; to arrest.
- To consume something quickly.
- To take the opportunity of.
- To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
- To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
- To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
- To quickly collect or retrieve.
noun
- An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
- A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
- A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
- A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
- A sound bite.
- A simple card game.
- A sudden snatch at something.
verb
noun
- someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations
- the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project
- an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs
noun
- someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations
- a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
adj
- being in force or having or exerting force
- relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
adj
verb
- To arrest (a person).
- To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To steal.
- to cause to move upwards.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To raise or rise.
- To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
noun
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- A thief.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- An act of lifting or raising.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- Air.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- An improvement in mood.
- The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
verb
- To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
- To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
- To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
noun
noun
- The primary participant in a crime.
- The chief administrator of a school.
- A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
- The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- A security principal.
- A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
- The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- A partner or owner of a business.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
adj
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