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noun
- a defensive effort
- a support or foundation
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- an interruption of normal activity
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
verb
- be standing; be upright
- be in some specified state or condition
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- remain inactive or immobile
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- put into an upright position
- withstand the force of something
- be available for stud services
noun
- Defense.
- Journalism: the attention given by the press or news media about some news; the total of stories published or broadcast about a topic.
- The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
- The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
- The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
- The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
- An amount by which something or someone is covered.
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verb
- To take up a new defensive position.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
noun
- A good defensive play
- A punch.
- A piece of the above used for polishing.
- A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
- A cricket ball or football.
- clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
adj
- Made of leather.
- Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
verb
noun
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- A block and tackle.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- Clothing.
verb
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
noun
- A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
- Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
- A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
- The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
- A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- That which gives stability or security.
- A screw anchor.
- Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
- One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
- The brake of a vehicle.
- A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
- A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
- An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
- The final runner in a relay race.
- An anchorman or anchorwoman.
- Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
verb
noun
- The defensive backs.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- A satellite.
- An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
- A secondary circle.
- A secondary school.
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
adj
- Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
- Developed by pressure or other causes.
- Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- Of less than primary importance.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
- Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
- Formed by mixing primary colors.
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
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verb
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
noun
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
noun
- The defensive area that a player can cover.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- Selection, array.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
verb
- To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- To classify.
- Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To form a line or a row.
- To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- To rove over or through.
- To determine the range to a target.
- To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
noun
noun
verb
- To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- To defend, to protect.
- To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches (usually followed by off)
- To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
noun
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- An object used for guarding.
- A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- Land tenure through military service.
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- A division of a forest.
verb
verb
- To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
- To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
- To pierce with a spear.
- To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
noun
- An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
- A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
- The sprout of a plant, stalk
- In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
- A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
- A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
- The feather of a horse.
adj
noun
- The defensive position in the outfield to the left.
- An unusual or unexpected position, or a viewpoint held by very few others in contrast to the majority viewpoint (especially in the phrases out in left field and way out in left field)
- An unexpected, bizarre, or unwatched source (especially in the phrases out of left field and from left field).
- The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to the left of a person standing on home plate and facing the pitcher.
noun
- A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
- A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
- The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- The contents of said vessel.
- A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
- A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
verb
noun
- A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
- A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
- An assist.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
- Ten dollars.
- Payment responsibility.
- A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
- A playing card with the rank of ten.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
- A small amount of money.
- A thousand dollars.
- A ten year prison sentence.
verb
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adv
noun
- A dunk over a defending player.
- An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
- A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
- A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.
- A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
- One who posts a message.
verb
verb
- To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- To rely, depend (on).
- Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- To traverse by riding.
- To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
- Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
noun
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- An instance of riding.
- A vehicle.
- An act of sexual intercourse
- In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
- A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
verb
- To use tricks to go past a defender.
- To injure the skin of.
- To high five.
- To become covered with skin.
- To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- To apply a skin to (a computer program).
noun
- A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
- That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- person, chap
- Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Rolling paper for cigarettes.
noun
- A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
- A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
- A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
- A band or stripe extending around a body.
- A circuit; a circumference.
- Any given region or area of the world.
- Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
- A belt or girdle.
- A semicircular area in front of each goal.
- The strike zone.
- A high-performance phase or period.
- A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- A frustum of a sphere.
verb
noun
- A player who plays on the left or right side of defence.
- A position behind the main line of backs in both rugby union and rugby league. In rugby union, they wear number 15 jersey at the start of play and are the last line of defence responsible for catching punts.
- A defensive player who assists the goalie in preventing the opposing team from scoring.
- An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays.
noun
- a posture of defence in boxing or fencing
- a person who keeps watch over something or someone
- the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage
- a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
- the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
- a military unit serving to protect some place or person
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- the duty of serving as a sentry
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles
- a position on a basketball team
verb
adj
noun
- A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
- 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 soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
- 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 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.
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adj
noun
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