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verb
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- go to seed; shed seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- bear seeds
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
- inoculate with microorganisms
- remove the seeds from
noun
- a small hard fruit
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
verb
- To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
- To answer; to address.
- To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- To execute research (in the field).
- To deploy in the field.
- The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- To defeat.
noun
- The background of the shield.
- An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
- The extent of a given perception.
- A region containing a particular mineral.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- The background of the flag.
- The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- The outfield.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
noun
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
verb
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- replay (as a melody)
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- use to one's advantage
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- make bets
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.
- A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.
- In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
- The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate. See also gain
- The rate at which a motor vehicle picks up speed.
- The act of answering a telephone.
- A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
- The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle.
- An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter.
- A pickup truck.
- A time during which passengers, such as school children, are picked up.
- In various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
- electromagnetic coil receiver of metal string oscillations
- The condition of being picked up, or taken up; adoption by some entity.
- An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
verb
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- behave in a certain way towards others
- direct the course of; manage or control
- give out as one's portion or share
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
noun
- a particular instance of buying or selling
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
noun
- A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
- A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
- A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
- A similar period of play.
verb
- 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).
- To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
- To delay or postpone
- to postpone induction into military service.
- To delay, to wait.
verb
- Of any player with the ball, to kneel and place the ball on the ground, thereby ending the play and indicating they do not intend to advance with the ball.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, knee.
- To come to rest, usually briefly, with one of one's knees on the ground.
- To cease performing customary activities or duties and kneel on one knee, sometimes as a form of protest.
adj
verb
- To trade or send a player to another team.
- To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- To pass (from one person to another).
- To go all in.
- Leave, depart, scram.
- To send by water-borne transport.
- To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
- To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- To embark on a ship.
- To put or secure in its place.
- To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
- To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
noun
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
- A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
- The third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
verb
- To put out a team for a match.
- To become ice; to freeze.
- To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- To make icy; to freeze.
- To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- To murder.
- To cool with ice, as a beverage.
noun
- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds.
- Any substance having the appearance of ice.
- Money paid as a bribe.
- The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
- Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
- Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
verb
- To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
- To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
verb
noun
- A place for transgressors, a limbo; a place of confinement or self-isolation after (or in order to avert) transgressions; a state of disgrace.
- Synonym of fuck truck: A panel van with a mattress in the back.
- An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
- A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.
noun
- An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- The act of assembling a group or structure.
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
- Something possessing structure or form.
- A layer of rock of common origin.
- A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
noun
- Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- Wall Street.
- Streetwise slang.
- A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- Living in the streets.
- A great distance.
verb
- To go on sale.
- To heavily defeat.
- To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- To build or equip with streets.
- To proselytize in public.
adj
noun
- Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.
- The showing of a film
- Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
- A method to identify a disease in a population which is not showing any symptoms of this disease.
- The process of checking or filtering.
- The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions
- shielding
- Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").
noun
- An empty side pot created when a player is all in and is called by at least two other players, but not raised. If subsequent betting occurs, the money will go to the dry pot.
- A Chinese dish, originally from the Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan provinces, made by wok-frying various ingredients (often a combination of meat and vegetables) and usually served hot on a metal pan, griddle or clay pot.
noun
- The aspect of the game in which the strategy is to advance downfield by throwing the ball to a receiving player; the passing game.
- The version of the game played until one team makes 10 points, as opposed to the short game, which is played to 5 points.
- A long-term strategy or endeavor.
- The portion of the game, played with driver clubs, in which the ball is advanced down the fairway to the putting green.
noun
- A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
- A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
- A dense and disorderly crowd.
verb
- To form a huddle.
- To get together and discuss a topic.
- To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
- To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
- To crowd together.
- To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
- To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.
adj
noun
- One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
- An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
- Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
- An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
verb
noun
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- Anything distributed; portion; share.
- The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
- A set of bundled software components
- The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
verb
- To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.
- To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.
- To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.
- To await the cessation of, without taking part.
noun
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
adj
- Of a sportsman's clause or contract: guaranteeing that they will not be taken off the team during a designated period.
- Of any clause or contract: remaining in force until it expires, without the possibility of earlier cancellation.
- Of a sporting activity (in a school, etc.): allowing an unlimited number of participants, rather than members of a fixed-size team who must "make the cut".
verb
- To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
- To propel high into the air.
- To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
- To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
- To furnish with a loft space.
noun
noun
- The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- Duration.
- The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
adj
noun
- The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- A long-haired breed of gundog.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- A typesetter.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
verb
name
noun
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- A testicle.
- A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A hole in a sock.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- A potato.
verb
- To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
- To dig up weeds with a spud.
verb
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To become weaker or worse.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
noun
noun
- A decision about the conduct of a sporting event, usually one made by the coach regarding which players will start or will play, or which strategy will be employed, which is put off until the start of the game itself.
- By extension, any decision that is put off until a point where it can no longer be delayed.
noun
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- Confinement in a jail.
- A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
verb
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