clavation
socketlike
socketed
socket
female
unciform
pillow
multisocket
subthecodont
pocket
extension reel
hornguide
semicircular canal
junction
junctive
backfall
ringlety
hook up
worm
shifter
plugpoint
pipe tong
hooksetting
Schuko
thimble
ringlet
pseudobasifixed
girt
board finger
wordle
interfix
wine key
point
power point
grapple
hook-shaped
taper
uncincate
utricle
nose
gange
rosaline
unciferous
pinhold
saucer
utriculus
link
innate
connection
connexion
marlinspike
prong
paratopic
alveoliform
tag
bail
afferent
magic roundabout
foretackle
data point
ductiform
apicifixed
interfacial
pen up
suicide knob
pen
wall plug
shroud
brace
desma
tagging interface
nosepiece
pen in
chicken wire
duct
socketry
braingraph
interface
palmate
granny knob
haywire
cannon box
bedded
ramus
stratified
screwback
grapnel
ringoid
flex
honda
embedder
gantline
siphonous
hooky
rackwork
fishing line
affixment
socketlike
socketed
female
unciform
multisocket
subthecodont
ringlety
pseudobasifixed
hook-shaped
uncincate
unciferous
innate
paratopic
alveoliform
ductiform
apicifixed
interfacial
palmate
bedded
stratified
siphonous
hooky
clavation
pillow
pocket
extension reel
hornguide
semicircular canal
junctive
backfall
worm
shifter
plugpoint
pipe tong
hooksetting
Schuko
thimble
socket
board finger
wordle
wine key
point
power point
grapple
taper
utricle
nose
rosaline
pinhold
saucer
utriculus
link
connection
connexion
marlinspike
prong
tag
bail
afferent
magic roundabout
foretackle
data point
suicide knob
wall plug
shroud
brace
desma
tagging interface
nosepiece
chicken wire
socketry
braingraph
granny knob
haywire
cannon box
ramus
screwback
grapnel
ringoid
flex
honda
embedder
gantline
rackwork
fishing line
affixment
socket
junction
hook up
ringlet
girt
interfix
gange
pen up
pen
pen in
duct
interface
adj
verb
noun
- An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
adj
- Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
- Lacking the F factor, and able to receive DNA from another bacterium which does have this factor (a male).
- Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
- Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
- Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
noun
- A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
- An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
- A human of the feminine sex.
- A bacterium which lacks the F factor, and is able to receive DNA from another bacterium which has that factor.
- A female connector, pipe fitting, etc.
noun
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.
- A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- A small, isolated group or area.
- The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
- The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- The pouch of an animal.
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
verb
- To put (something) into a pocket.
- To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
- To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
adj
verb
noun
- A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
verb
- To assemble the parts of a mechanism, especially by connecting wires.
- To have a casual sexual experience with another person, usually without any future relationship intended.
- To connect to something like a power supply or a signal source.
- To supply someone with goods or services.
- To form an association (with) someone.
noun
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
verb
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
- A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
- A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
- A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
noun
- A hand tool consisting of a lever that ends in a toothed surface and an attached chain or strap. In use, the pipe is squeezed between the chain and the teeth, thus gripping the pipe. This version is used more for threading pipe sections together.
- A tool that uses a scissor action to exert pressure on a pipe or other cylindrical object in order to lift or handle the object. Normally used with a crane or other power equipment.
noun
- A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
- As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
- A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.
- A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.
- A thimble or similar object used in thimblerig (“a game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three thimbles or small cups a pea-sized object has been placed after the person operating the game rapidly rearranges them”).
- A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.
verb
noun
noun
- a wall socket
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
noun
noun
- A grapnel (“type of anchor”).
- A close hand-to-hand struggle.
- A combination of grape and apple flavors.
- The act of grappling. (uncountable)
- A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grappling iron.
verb
- To hook and raise with a grapple.
- To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
- To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
- To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
- To wrestle or tussle.
- To seize something and hold it firmly.
- To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
noun
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- A small light.
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
verb
- To diminish gradually.
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
adj
noun
- The tip of an object.
- The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
- The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
- Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
- A downward projection from a cornice.
- The skill in recognising bouquet.
- A perfumer.
- An informer.
- A snout, the nose of an animal.
- A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
- The power of smelling.
- Skill at finding information.
verb
- To furnish with a nose.
- To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
- To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
- To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
- To snoop.
- To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
- To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
noun
- a connecting shape
- the means of connection between things linked in series
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the state of being connected
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- a channel for communication between groups
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
verb
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- the state of being connected
- an instrumentality that connects
- (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- a supplier (especially of narcotics)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- an instrumentality that connects
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
noun
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
- A sheep in its first year.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it".
- An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- A person's name.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- A type of cardboard.
- A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- A small label.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.
- A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
verb
- To mark (something) with one’s tag.
- To label (something).
- To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- To fasten; to attach.
- To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- To hit the ball hard.
noun
- Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
- Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- The person providing such payment.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
verb
- To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
- To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- To release a person under such guarantee.
- To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
- To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
- To exit quickly.
- To confine.
noun
verb
noun
- Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A female swan.
- Penalty.
- A writer, or their style.
- The bullpen.
- Marks of ink left by a pen.
- A light pen.
- A wing.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
noun
- One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
verb
noun
- A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
- A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- The mouth of a shaft.
verb
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
noun
verb
- to enclose in a duct
- to channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
noun
- a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
- a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
- a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
- a layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
- an enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors
noun
verb
- To connect through an interface.
- To construct an interface for.
- To serve as an interface.
- To meet for discussion.
noun
- In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
- A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
- The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
- The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
- The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
- The connection between a user and a machine.
- The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module,
noun
- A hook-shapped attachment for an earring that sits behind the earlobe and tightens with a screw. Also, an earring that uses this type of attachment.
- A tightening screw on the back of a hand tool.
- A type of case for a pocket watch where the mechanism is accessed by a removable back plate that screws onto the back of the case. Also, a watch that has such a case.
- A powerful shot that imparts a spin to the ball.
- A type of propeller in which the blades are angled to produce a motion similar to threading a screw. Also, the angle of the blades on such a propeller.
- The period of screw rotation during injection molding when the plastic can flow into the mold.
- A masonry abutment on an arch that is wedge-shaped in order to transmit the thrust downward.
- An industrial digging machine that uses a large screw at the back to drill into the ground.
- The effect of putting backspin on the cue ball.
- A mechanism for attaching a small item to clothing that operates by a post which goes through the cloth and a small backing plate that screws to the post. Also, the medal, tie pin, button, etc. that uses this type of attachment.
- A half-volley executed by holding the racket loosely and swinging it straight at the ball.
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