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adj
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- Extremely important.
- Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
noun
verb
verb
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To back out of something.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
noun
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
noun
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
verb
- To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
- To spoil, to ruin.
- To behave or act as a bitch.
noun
- An obviously gay man.
- Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
- A queen.
- Place; situation
- A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- A difficult or confounding problem.
- A woman.
- Friend.
- A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
verb
- To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- To purpose, intend, plan.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To remember.
- To be careful about.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
noun
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- Attention, consideration or thought.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
verb
- To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
- To commit a mistake or error.
- To fracture.
- To undergo a page fault.
noun
- A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which subjects a person or thing to increased risk of danger.
- In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
- A mistake or error.
- An illegal serve.
- A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
- Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
- A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
- A weakness of character; a failing.
- A minor offense.
- A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
- An abnormal connection in a circuit.
noun
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- An undesirable place to live or visit.
- A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- A container or receptacle.
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- Sex, or a sex partner.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
- A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
verb
noun
- an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable
- (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building)
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- the condition of being strongly disapproved of
- (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
verb
- find a flaw in
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
noun
- Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- The action of a batsman being out.
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
- A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- That which falls or cascades.
verb
- To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To become.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- To be brought to the ground.
- To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To come down, to drop or descend.
intj
verb
- To find fault; to cavil.
- To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
- To argue or squabble with (someone).
noun
- A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
- Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
- A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
- An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
- A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
- A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
verb
- To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- To damage; injure.
- To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
- To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
verb
- To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
- To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
noun
- A storm of short duration.
- An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
- A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
- A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
adj
- Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
- Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
noun
noun
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
adj
verb
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
verb
- To tell off; to criticise.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
adj
- In trouble or in strife, screwed.
- Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
- Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
- Having roots, or certain type of roots.
- Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
- Having a root.
- Broken, damaged, non-functional.
- Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
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