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verb
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- postpone doing what one should be doing
- deliberately delay an event or action
- come to a stop
- put into, or keep in, a stall
- experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- cause an airplane to go into a stall
- cause an engine to stop
noun
- a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
- seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
- small individual study area in a library
- a tactic used to mislead or delay
verb
- To delay or postpone
- To delay, to wait.
- To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
- to postpone induction into military service.
- After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
verb
verb
verb
noun
verb
adj
- according to schedule or without delay; on time
- ready and willing or quick to act
- performed with little or no delay
noun
- a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)
- (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command
verb
noun
verb
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- cause friction
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- poor handwriting
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
verb
- To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- To put on a table.
- To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
- To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
noun
- A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
- One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- The lineup of players at a given table.
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
noun
- A planned delay in a timed control program.
- In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
verb
verb
- To interrupt an activity and wait.
- To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
noun
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
noun
- Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
- A person appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.
- Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
- A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
- One of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant.
- A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
- A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.
- A special constable.
- A correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
- Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
verb
adj
verb
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
- To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
noun
verb
- To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
- To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- To deprive (with of).
noun
adj
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- costing nothing
- not occupied or in use
- not fixed in position
- completely wanting or lacking
- not literal
noun
verb
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- relieve from
- remove or force out from a position
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- make (information) available for publication
- free from obligations or duties
- free or remove obstruction from
- let off the hook
- part with a possession or right
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- make (assets) available
adj
- not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
- unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
- not held in servitude
adv
adj
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- thin and fit
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
verb
verb
- To postpone.
- Rhymes: -ɪt
- Audio (UK) (file)
- To restore or replace.
- To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈmɪt/
- To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
- To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹiˈmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
noun
verb
noun
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
verb
- To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- To move down; to slide.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
- To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- To err.
- To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
noun
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- A fish, the sole.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A slipway.
- A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A slipdress.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- A mistake or error.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- An outside covering or case.
- A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
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noun
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