pylon
starting signal
follow a wheel
bastion
polehead
toe the line
start
Pimlico
sun gear
trackside
racepath
trots
Pimlico Race Course
quadripolar
forewatch
ringway
track plan
hornlike
gore
grid
forerider
winning post
exchange zone
midmovement
multipolar
post
apron
stake
steady as she goes
gallant
capsheaf
dirt track
base
bag
holeshot
platometer
wallbang
marker
starting post
double-ender
load
qualifier
pacemaker
pin
Bissell truck
autocross
orienteering
tower
verticle
flat
barricade
multivallation
nose
stretch
brim
salient
drift park
lap
tablet
run-up
sector
tooth
infield
point
dog
gangrel
loaded
circuit
ready about
redan
turntable
signal post
sentinelship
thrust bearing
odograph
running
upbound
in the crosshairs
contrapolar
bench table
increscent
overdrift
lapped
bobrun
trechometer
cut up
cancellate
corral
lane
helper
terminus
double-ended
aster-
spinner
rail
crescentader
cinder track
quadripolar
hornlike
multipolar
salient
loaded
running
upbound
contrapolar
overdrift
lapped
cancellate
double-ended
pylon
starting signal
bastion
polehead
start
Pimlico
sun gear
trackside
racepath
trots
Pimlico Race Course
forewatch
ringway
track plan
gore
grid
forerider
winning post
exchange zone
midmovement
post
apron
stake
gallant
capsheaf
dirt track
base
bag
holeshot
platometer
wallbang
marker
starting post
double-ender
qualifier
pacemaker
pin
Bissell truck
autocross
orienteering
tower
verticle
flat
barricade
multivallation
nose
stretch
brim
drift park
lap
tablet
run-up
sector
tooth
infield
point
dog
gangrel
circuit
redan
turntable
signal post
sentinelship
thrust bearing
odograph
bench table
increscent
bobrun
trechometer
corral
lane
helper
terminus
spinner
crescentader
cinder track
follow a wheel
toe the line
load
cut up
rail
noun
- The top of any pole.
- An emblem, usually made of metal, that tops a pole which is carried by the steward or secretary of a rural British club or friendly society.
- A housing for wires that is attached to the top of a telephone pole or similar pole carrying power lines.
- A tadpole.
- The top of a flagpole.
- The front portion of the pole that attaches a coach or wagon to the team of horses that pulls it.
- The portion of a mast above the crossbar that holds the sail, which sometimes support a flag or topsail.
noun
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- the beginning of anything
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
verb
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- set in motion, cause to start
- depart for someplace
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- bring into being
- get off the ground
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- get going or set in motion
- begin or set in motion
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- play in the starting lineup
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- bulge outward
noun
noun
- A projecting point.
- Dirt; mud; filth.
- A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.ᵂᵖ
- A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
- One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point.
- Murder, bloodshed, violence.
- A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
verb
noun
- The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
- The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
- An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
- A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
- A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
- A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
- A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
- A method of marking off maps into areas.
- A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
verb
noun
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- a job in an organization
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- A message on a social media website
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
verb
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a post; put into a post
- assign to a station
- display, as of records in sports games
- enter on a public list
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- mark with a stake
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- mark or expose as infamous
- To post a message on a social media website
noun
- The paved area below the yellow line on a race track.
- The sides of a tree's canopy.
- The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre.
- The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station
- A removable cover for the passengers' feet and legs in an open horse carriage.
- The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.
- The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.
- An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
- The spreading end of a driveway.
- A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.
- The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal
verb
noun
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- the money risked on a gamble
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
verb
noun
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- lowest support of a structure
- the bottom or lowest part
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- a lower limit
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a support or foundation
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
adj
- serving as or forming a base
- of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- illegitimate
- debased; not genuine
verb
noun
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
verb
noun
noun
- The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
- A counter, especially one used in card games.
- A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
- Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
- A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
- A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
- A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
- A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
- A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
- Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
- The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
- A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
- A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
- A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
- A device that fires a paintball.
- A formal certification that a company was the first to approach a competition authority to reveal the existence of a cartel, generally entitling it to greater leniency during the cartel's dissolution and punishment.
verb
verb
- To put runners on first, second and third bases
- To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- To provide in abundance.
- To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- To receive a load.
- To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- to top up or purchase phone credits
- To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To be put into use in an apparatus.
- To put a load on something.
- To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
noun
- The charge of powder for a firearm.
- A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- The viral load
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- Nonsense; rubbish.
- prepaid phone credit
- The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- A large number or amount.
- The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
noun
- A preliminary stage of a competition.
- One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
- A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
- A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
noun
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
verb
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone).
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
noun
- A control tower.
- The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- A water tower.
- A strong refuge; a defence.
- The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
- A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
- Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
- An interlocking tower.
- A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
- One who tows.
- An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
verb
noun
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
adv
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Directly; flatly.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
adj
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
verb
noun
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
- a small distance
- a symbol of inquisitiveness
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- a natural skill
- a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
verb
noun
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
adj
verb
- occupy a large, elongated area
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- lie down comfortably
- pull in opposite directions
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- extend one's body or limbs
adj
- Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
- Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
- Depicted in a leaping posture.
- Prominent; conspicuous.
- Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
noun
- An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
- 1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9
- 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193
- On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
- The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
- An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
noun
- One circuit around a race track.
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
- A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.
- A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
- A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
- A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
- A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.
- A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
- A graphics tablet.
verb
noun
- A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
- section
- a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
- a field of economic activity
- A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
- part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector
- an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
- zone (designated area).
- one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
- an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
- An area of a crag, consisting of various routes
- fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
noun
- one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
- 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
- a means of enforcement
noun
- The area inside a racetrack or running track.
- A constrained scope or area.
- An area to cultivate: a field
- The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
- (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
- The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
verb
adv
noun
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- 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.
- 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.
- An electric power socket.
- 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.
noun
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- The meat of this animal, eaten as food
- A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- A man, guy, chap.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- Something that performs poorly.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- A sexually aggressive man.
- Underdog.
- Foot.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
adj
verb
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- To criticize.
- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- To fasten a hatch securely.
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
adj
- Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
- Covered with a topping or toppings.
- Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
- Equipped with numerous options.
- Drunk.
- Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
- Weighted with lead or similar.
- Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
- Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
- Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
- Possessing great wealth.
noun
- A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
- The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
- A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
- The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
- The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
- The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
- The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
- A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
- By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
- The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
- A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
- Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
- That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
- The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
noun
adj
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- Present, current.
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- Discharging snot or mucus.
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- Discharging pus.
adv
noun
- The act of running errands.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
- The action of the verb to run.
prep
noun
verb
- Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
adj
noun
- A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
- A narrow road, as in the country.
- Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
- A course designated for ships or aircrafts.
- An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
- In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
- A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
- An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
- Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
- A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
- The home stretch.
noun
- A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
- A record turntable or CD player.
- A spin bowler.
- The Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A spinneret.
- The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- The dolphin Stenella longirostris.
- A spin doctor.
verb
- To place on a track.
- To enclose with rails or a railing.
- To range in a line.
- To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- To travel by railway.
- To complain violently (against, about).
noun
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- A vertical section on one side of a web page.
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