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fire drill
trigger
get in the way
blocking
stop
musical chairs
the terrorists will have won
tail event
check
deterrent
hang
fall over
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baulk
handicap
impediment
hinderance
balk
time killer
time bomb
person from Porlock
disruptant
obsession
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obtrusion
derailing
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clog
nose poke
gum
misfunction
mismanufacture
unstabilize
call
interrupt
break
bungle
deactivate
Porlockian
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deactivation
basketweaving
noise
undermining
panic
in the way
take a shit
obstruction
paralyze
fits and starts
autokill
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trojan
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inhibitor
merry-go-round
obstruct
epicentre
churn
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repress
reactivation
disable
interdict
preventiveness
hesitate
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unwind
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disactivate
fall at the last hurdle
pause
abruption
stall
in someone's way
muscle in
fatal
buglet
antiprogram
knock out
inactivator
blench
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shackle
autostop
fail-safe
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throw
lapsing
Porlockian
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balk
time killer
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person from Porlock
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pause
muscle in
knock out
blench
discompose
shackle
throw
noun
- activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- a disorderly outburst or tumult
- a noisy fight
- the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
- (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
verb
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
noun
- Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
- A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
- An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
noun
- The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
- The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
- Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
- A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
noun
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
verb
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- To close or block an opening.
- Not to continue.
punct
noun
- Any activity which results in repeated, pointless shuffling of people or objects.
- A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated.
noun
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- a written order directing a bank to pay money
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- the bill in a restaurant
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
- the act of inspecting or verifying
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard)
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
- obstructing an opponent in ice hockey
- (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king
verb
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- make an examination or investigation
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- slow the growth or development of
- be verified or confirmed; pass inspection
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- consign for shipment on a vehicle
- hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping
- abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey
- stop in a chase especially when scent is lost
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
- decline to initiate betting
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- place into check
- write out a check on a bank account
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- verify by consulting a source or authority
- arrest the motion (of something) abruptly
- make cracks or chinks in
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
verb
- To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- To float, as if suspended.
- To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- To be or remain suspended.
- To veer in one direction.
- To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- To be vulnerable to capture.
- To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (used in maledictions) To damn.
noun
- A mass of hanging material.
- A slackening of motion.
- A grip, understanding.
- He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.
- A hangout.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- The way in which something hangs.
noun
noun
- An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.
- An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
- The quality of being obsessed.
- Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
noun
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
verb
verb
- To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
- To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
noun
- Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants.
- Any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants.
- A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- A single piece of chewing gum.
- A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A gummi candy.
- A rubber overshoe.
- Chewing gum.
- A gum tree.
- The flesh around the teeth.
noun
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- a demand
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a brief social visit
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- a request
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
verb
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- utter a sudden loud cry
- order, request, or command to come
- pay a brief visit
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- make a stop in a harbour
- demand payment of (a loan)
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- indicate a decision in regard to
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- present for redemption before maturation
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- order or request or give a command for
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- consider or regard as being
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
noun
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
- Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
- Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
- Any sound.
- Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
- A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
- The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- Rumour or complaint.
verb
verb
- To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- Of a computer system: to crash.
- To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
noun
- Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
adj
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noun
noun
- The focal point of any activity, especially if dangerous or destructive.
- The point on the surface of the earth directly above an underground explosion.
- The geographical area in which an ongoing disaster, illness, crisis, or other destructive event is currently most severe.
- The point on the land or water surface directly above the focus, or hypocentre, of an earthquake.
verb
verb
- To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- To stop using a company's product or service.
- To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
noun
- A milk churn.
- The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
- The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
verb
- To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
- To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
- To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
- To forbid (someone) from doing something.
noun
noun
verb
- To undo something.
- To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
- To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
- To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
- To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
- To separate (something that is wound up)
verb
noun
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
verb
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To come to a standstill.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
verb
- To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- To put to sleep.
- To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
- To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- To exhaust.
- To communicate (a message) by knocking.
verb
- To render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of.
- To shake, rattle.
- To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
noun
- A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
- A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
- A length of cable or chain equal to 12+¹⁄₂ fathoms or 75 feet, or later to 15 fathoms.
- A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.
- A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
- A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger; normally used in pairs joined by a chain.
verb
- To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- To install (a bridge).
- To eject or cause to fall off.
- To project or send forth.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- Synonym of pass
- Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- To deliver.
- To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- To roll (a die or dice).
- To discard.
- To send desperately.
- To imprison.
- To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
- To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To confuse or mislead.
- To organize an event, especially a party.
- To intentionally lose a game.
- To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
noun
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