English words for 'enclosed in a basin'
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verb
noun
- the quantity that a basin will hold
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
noun
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- (anatomy) A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
- An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
- (botany) A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
- (physics) 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.
verb
adj
adj
- filled with water
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
- relating to or resembling or consisting of water
- Diluted or having too much water.
- (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
- Resembling or characteristic of water.
- Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
- Weak and insipid.
- Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
- Containing many bodies of water.
- Tearful.
noun
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- A large amount of liquid.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
- In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
- a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
- any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
- a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
verb
noun
- A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
- Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.
- (British) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
- Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
- (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
- A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
- a negotiator who settles disputes
- a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
- a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings
noun
- A head or reservoir of water.
- A person in charge of a business or company.
- (geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
- (humorous) One's wife.
- (architecture) A roughly cut stone set in place for later carving.
- (mechanics) A protrusion; frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
- (archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
- A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
- (informal, especially India, MLE and Philippines) A term of address to a man, especially a customer, but also sometimes to a friend or acquaintance of equal standing.
- A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
- The head of a political party in a given region or district.
- A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
- (Australia) The male owner or man in charge of a large rural property.
- (video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
- A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
- (architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
- a person responsible for hiring workers
- a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
- a person who exercises control and makes decisions
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- a person who exercises control over workers
adj
verb
noun
- large watertight chamber used for construction under water
- a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition
- an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
- a chest to hold ammunition
- (military) A chest filled with explosive materials, used like a mine.
- The gate across the entrance to a dry dock.
- (military) A large box to hold ammunition.
- (engineering) An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
- (military) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals).
- (nautical) A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
- (architecture) A coffer.
noun
- large watertight chamber used for construction under water
- (nautical) An empty space that acts as a protective barrier between two floors or bulkheads on a ship.
- (engineering) A temporary watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation for building bridges and other structures over water.
- (introduced by dentist Sanford Christie Barnum, New York, in 1864, but after his century maintained only in other languages than English) A rubber dam to keep the teeth dry when operating upon them.
noun
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
verb
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
noun
- a well or other hole in which water has collected
- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
- (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- (Scotland) A sudden or heavy fall of rain; a deluge.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
verb
noun
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- (US) A soda fountain.
- (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
- (figurative) A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises
- a natural flow of ground water
- a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
- an artificially produced flow of water
verb
noun
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- (Scotland) To soak.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
noun
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
- (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
- (dialect) Any watercourse.
- (loosely, slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
- A beaver's dam.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- (dialect) Any small body of water.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A masculine woman.
- (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
- (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
- (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A raised causeway.
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
verb
- enclose with a dike
- (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
- (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
noun
noun
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a concave shape with an open top
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
verb
noun
- a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
- an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- an abundant source
- (figurative) A source of supply.
- (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A well drink.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- (graphical user interface) The region of an interface that contains tabs.
- (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
- (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
- (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
adj
adv
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
- in financial comfort
- favorably; with approval
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’)
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage
- with prudence or propriety
- with great or especially intimate knowledge
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
- to a great extent or degree
- (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- (degree) To a significant degree.
- (degree, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
- (manner) Completely, fully.
verb
intj
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.
- Used as a hedge.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
- Used as a discourse marker.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Expressing reluctance to say something.
- (Ireland) Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
noun
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- A small cask.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
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noun
adj
verb
verb
noun
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who bows or bends.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
noun
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- The place where such a well exists.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- a person who evokes boredom
- a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
verb
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- simple past of bear
- (intransitive) To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (colloquial) past participle of bear
- (proscribed) simple past of bare
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- cause to be bored
verb
- place in a cylindrical vessel
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- shock physically
- affect in a disagreeable way
- (ambitransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.
- (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
- (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
noun
- a sudden jarring impact
- a cylindrical vessel, typically used for storing food
- the quantity contained in a jar
- (British, Ireland, colloquial, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- (originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- (countable) The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- (countable, also figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- (countable) A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- (British, Ireland, colloquial) A pint glass
- (countable, by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.
noun
- a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream
- (hydrology, soil science) A depression in the ground containing a permanent pool of water that is replenished by rainwater which would otherwise cause flooding or erosion, which releases the water at a slow rate into the ground or other nearby water bodies.
verb
noun
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- Alternative form of deck: (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
- Alternative form of dyke, Alternative form of deck: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
noun
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- (anatomy) A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
- An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
- (botany) A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
- (physics) 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.
verb
verb
noun
- the quantity that a basin will hold
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
noun
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- A large amount of liquid.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
- In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
- a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
- any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
- a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
verb
noun
- A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
- Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.
- (British) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
- Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
- (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
- A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
- a negotiator who settles disputes
- a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
- a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings
noun
- A head or reservoir of water.
- A person in charge of a business or company.
- (geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
- (humorous) One's wife.
- (architecture) A roughly cut stone set in place for later carving.
- (mechanics) A protrusion; frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
- (archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
- A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
- (informal, especially India, MLE and Philippines) A term of address to a man, especially a customer, but also sometimes to a friend or acquaintance of equal standing.
- A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
- The head of a political party in a given region or district.
- A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
- (Australia) The male owner or man in charge of a large rural property.
- (video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
- A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
- (architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
- a person responsible for hiring workers
- a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
- a person who exercises control and makes decisions
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- a person who exercises control over workers
adj
verb
noun
- large watertight chamber used for construction under water
- a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition
- an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
- a chest to hold ammunition
- (military) A chest filled with explosive materials, used like a mine.
- The gate across the entrance to a dry dock.
- (military) A large box to hold ammunition.
- (engineering) An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
- (military) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals).
- (nautical) A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
- (architecture) A coffer.
noun
- large watertight chamber used for construction under water
- (nautical) An empty space that acts as a protective barrier between two floors or bulkheads on a ship.
- (engineering) A temporary watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation for building bridges and other structures over water.
- (introduced by dentist Sanford Christie Barnum, New York, in 1864, but after his century maintained only in other languages than English) A rubber dam to keep the teeth dry when operating upon them.
noun
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
verb
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
noun
- a well or other hole in which water has collected
- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
- (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- (Scotland) A sudden or heavy fall of rain; a deluge.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
verb
noun
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- (US) A soda fountain.
- (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
- (figurative) A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises
- a natural flow of ground water
- a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
- an artificially produced flow of water
verb
noun
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- (Scotland) To soak.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
noun
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
- (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
- (dialect) Any watercourse.
- (loosely, slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
- A beaver's dam.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- (dialect) Any small body of water.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A masculine woman.
- (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
- (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
- (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A raised causeway.
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
verb
- enclose with a dike
- (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
- (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
noun
noun
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a concave shape with an open top
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
verb
noun
- a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
- an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- an abundant source
- (figurative) A source of supply.
- (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A well drink.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- (graphical user interface) The region of an interface that contains tabs.
- (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
- (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
- (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
adj
adv
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
- in financial comfort
- favorably; with approval
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’)
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage
- with prudence or propriety
- with great or especially intimate knowledge
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
- to a great extent or degree
- (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- (degree) To a significant degree.
- (degree, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
- (manner) Completely, fully.
verb
intj
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.
- Used as a hedge.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
- Used as a discourse marker.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Expressing reluctance to say something.
- (Ireland) Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
noun
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- A small cask.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- The place where such a well exists.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- a person who evokes boredom
- a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
verb
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- simple past of bear
- (intransitive) To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (colloquial) past participle of bear
- (proscribed) simple past of bare
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- cause to be bored
noun
- a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream
- (hydrology, soil science) A depression in the ground containing a permanent pool of water that is replenished by rainwater which would otherwise cause flooding or erosion, which releases the water at a slow rate into the ground or other nearby water bodies.
verb
noun
- the quantity that a basin will hold
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
verb
noun
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who bows or bends.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
verb
- place in a cylindrical vessel
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- shock physically
- affect in a disagreeable way
- (ambitransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.
- (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
- (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
noun
- a sudden jarring impact
- a cylindrical vessel, typically used for storing food
- the quantity contained in a jar
- (British, Ireland, colloquial, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- (originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- (countable) The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- (countable, also figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- (countable) A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- (British, Ireland, colloquial) A pint glass
- (countable, by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.
noun
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
- (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
- (dialect) Any watercourse.
- (loosely, slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
- A beaver's dam.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- (dialect) Any small body of water.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A masculine woman.
- (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
- (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
- (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A raised causeway.
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
verb
- enclose with a dike
- (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
- (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
verb
noun
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- Alternative form of deck: (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
- Alternative form of dyke, Alternative form of deck: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
adj
adj
- filled with water
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
- relating to or resembling or consisting of water
- Diluted or having too much water.
- (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
- Resembling or characteristic of water.
- Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
- Weak and insipid.
- Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
- Containing many bodies of water.
- Tearful.