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verb
- give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
- provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
- provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
noun
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
- the property of being smooth and shiny
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
verb
- To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
- To strike.
- To make a character or an item stronger.
- To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
adj
noun
- Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
- Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
- A military coat made of buff leather.
- A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
- The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
- Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
- A brownish yellow colour.
- A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
- A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
- An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
- The bare skin.
verb
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
noun
verb
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
- To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- To make something dirty.
- To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
noun
- A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- A mark made by smearing.
- A rough glissando in jazz music.
- A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
verb
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
noun
verb
adj
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- lacking obstructions or difficulties
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
adj
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
noun
verb
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- To appear positive and highly respected.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
noun
noun
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- A loan.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- A difficulty or problem.
verb
- To rub something against (a second thing).
- To be rubbed against something.
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To touch the jack with the bowl.
- To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
adj
- made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
- having strong or striking color
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- having lots of light either natural or artificial
- splendid
- clear and sharp and ringing
- characterized by happiness or gladness
- likely to turn out well in the future
adj
adv
verb
- make (a surface) shine
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
- emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- be shiny, as if wet
- be distinguished or eminent
- be clear and obvious
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
noun
verb
- To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
- To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- To ring or sound with many echos.
- To rebound or recoil.
- To have a lasting effect.
- To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- To repeatedly return.
- To fuse by reverberated heat.
adj
noun
- Shine, polish or sparkle.
- Refinement, polish or quality.
- Lusterware.
- One who lusts or is inflamed with lust.
- A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
- A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
- A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
- Brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
verb
verb
- To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating; to wax.
- To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.
- To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.
- To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.
- To paste into place using wax.
- To taper off; to gradually quiet or diminish.
- To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.
verb
- To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- To fit with glass; to glaze.
- To become glassy.
- To enclose in glass.
- To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- To make glassy.
noun
- The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- A barometer.
- Transparent or translucent.
- An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- Lenses, considered collectively.
- Glassware.
- The backboard.
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- A mirror.
- Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
verb
- To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
- To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- To barely manage to achieve.
- To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
noun
- A shave.
- A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
noun
- The scratching, etching, burning / branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification.
- A medieval form of penance in which the skin was damaged with a knife or hot iron.
- The act of scarifying: raking the ground harshly to remove weeds, etc.
- A route of administration for some vaccinations and tests: rather than hypodermic injection, the site is inoculated intradermally not with any injection but rather only with small, shallow pricks or scratches; the needle is not hollow.
noun
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- Lengths of fine wire, silver, gold, silk or whalebone wrapped tightly around the bow stick adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel of the bow.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
verb
- To peel; to make by removing the skin.
- To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
- To medicate with pills.
- Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
- To form into the shape of a pill.
- To persuade or convince someone of something.
noun
- A bullet (projectile).
- An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
- A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
- A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
- A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
- Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
- A comical or entertaining person.
- A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
- Hyponyms: tablet, caplet, capsule, lozenge
- Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
- Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
noun
- The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
- A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
- (Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.
- Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
noun
- A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
- An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
- The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
verb
verb
- To touch up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.
- To top up (a drink).
- To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).
- To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
- To make cool.
- To be refreshed.
- To touch up the paint on (something).
- To become not salty, to lose its salinity.
- To become cool.
- To refresh; to revive; to renew.
- To make green (vegetation that has become dry).
- To top up (primer) in a firearm.
- To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
- To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
- To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
- To become stronger.
verb
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
adj
verb
- To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
- To direct a radar beam toward.
- To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
- To apply paint to.
- To create (an image) with paints.
- To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
- To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- To depict or portray.
- To practise the art of painting pictures.
- To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
noun
- Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
- A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
- The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
- Paintballs.
- Tattoo work.
- The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
- Makeup.
- A face card (king, queen, or jack).
noun
verb
- To become covered with skin.
- To injure the skin of.
- To use tricks to go past a defender.
- To high five.
- To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- To apply a skin to (a computer program).
noun
- A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
- That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- person, chap
- Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Rolling paper for cigarettes.
noun
- A gloss or superficial layer.
- The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
- A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
- A paten, flat type of dish.
adj
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