English words for 'having a broad or rounded end'
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adj
- having a broad or rounded end
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
verb
- make dull or blunt
- make less sharp
- make numb or insensitive
- make less intense
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
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adj
- having a round shape tapered at one end
- (of sounds) full and rich
- Having gynoid fat distribution, not android fat distribution.
- (slang, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Wrong, awry, usually in the phrase go pear-shaped.
- (of a vocal or musical tone) rich, mellow, sonorous
- Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
adj
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- (of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- (slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Even; tied
- (automotive) Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- (nautical) Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- providing abundant nourishment
- rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- leaving no balance
- without evasion or compromise
- having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
- characterized by honesty and fairness
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noun
- (real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- (geometry) A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- (colloquial, US) Ellipsis of square meal.
- (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
- (computing) A pattern to be matched that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
- (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- (slang, MLE) A well-defined torso.
- (slang) Cigarette.
- (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A cell in a grid.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- (Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- (military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- (academia) A mortarboard.
- something approximating the shape of a square
- an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
- a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
- (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
- any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- the product of two equal terms
- a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles
verb
- (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- (transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- (rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- (nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- (ambitransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- (transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
- (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
- (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- cause to match, as of ideas or acts
- make square
- be compatible with
- position so as to be square
- turn the oar, while rowing
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- raise to the second power
- pay someone and settle a debt
adj
- Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
- (sports, games) Having no points
- (mathematics) Without points.
- Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.
- (programming, derogatory) Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.
- Having no prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- having no points scores
- not having a point especially a sharp point
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noun
- A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
- (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
- (ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.
- (slang, US) Money.
- (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
- A gem cut in such a shape.
- A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
- narrow French stick loaf
noun
- a section of something that is long and narrow
- the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
- size of the gap between two places
- continuance in time
- the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- Duration.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
- (slang) A penis.
adj
- (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
- (archaeology) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
- (botany, mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
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- (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- An awareness ribbon.
- (spinning) A sliver.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- A narrow strip or shred.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus with a handle and a long narrow strip of fabric.
- (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ribbon.
- (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bandsaw.
- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
- A watchspring.
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- any long object resembling a thin line
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
verb
noun
- a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends
- a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth
- (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
- (marketing, figurative) Ellipsis of purchase funnel (“the process of customer acquisition conceptualized as a series of stages, from initial awareness (top) to sale or conversion (bottom)”).
- (meteorology) Ellipsis of funnel cloud.
- Alternative form of fummel (“hybrid animal”).
- A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
- A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
verb
- move or pour through a funnel
- (transitive) To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
- (transitive) To use a funnel.
- (intransitive) To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
- (transitive) To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
verb
adj
- (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
- Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
- Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
- (bookmaking) Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
- deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
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adv
- So as to form a sharp, or tight, angle.
- Piercingly; keenly; severely; painfully.
- Quickly and alertly.
- Rapidly, abruptly.
- (to describe breathing) Suddenly and intensely like a gasp, but typically as the result of an emotional reaction.
- Steeply; precipitously.
- Stylishly, smartly.
- Precisely, accurately.
- So as to terminate in a sharp point or edge.
- In an intellectually alert and penetrating manner.
- In a strongly distinguishing or differentiating manner; acutely.
- Of speech, sternly, harshly or critically.
- in an aggressive manner
- changing suddenly in direction and degree
- very suddenly and to a great degree
- in a well delineated manner
noun
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
adj
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
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verb
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
adj
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Fatal; resulting in death.
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- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
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- (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
- an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
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- (countable) One who bluffs; a bluffer.
- (poker, countable or uncountable) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
- (countable or uncountable) An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
- A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
- the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
- a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
- pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
verb
- (by analogy) To frighten, deter, or deceive with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate or gain some advantage.
- (Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally, to lie (to someone), to deceive; to put on an act.
- To fluff, puff or swell up.
- (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger than it is.
- To perform or achieve by bluffing.
- deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand
- frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is
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- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- any cone-shaped artifact
- An ice cream cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (slang, by extension) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- A traffic cone.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
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- Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
- (Newfoundland) ill-tempered; grumpy; cranky.
- Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
- (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
- having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
- irregular in shape or outline
- having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
verb
noun
- A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
- (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
- (ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.
- (slang, US) Money.
- (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
- A gem cut in such a shape.
- A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
- narrow French stick loaf
noun
- a section of something that is long and narrow
- the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
- size of the gap between two places
- continuance in time
- the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- Duration.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
- (slang) A penis.
noun
- (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- An awareness ribbon.
- (spinning) A sliver.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- A narrow strip or shred.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus with a handle and a long narrow strip of fabric.
- (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ribbon.
- (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bandsaw.
- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
- A watchspring.
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- any long object resembling a thin line
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
verb
noun
- a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends
- a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth
- (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
- (marketing, figurative) Ellipsis of purchase funnel (“the process of customer acquisition conceptualized as a series of stages, from initial awareness (top) to sale or conversion (bottom)”).
- (meteorology) Ellipsis of funnel cloud.
- Alternative form of fummel (“hybrid animal”).
- A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
- A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
verb
- move or pour through a funnel
- (transitive) To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
- (transitive) To use a funnel.
- (intransitive) To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
- (transitive) To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
noun
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
adj
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
adv
verb
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
adj
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Fatal; resulting in death.
verb
noun
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- any cone-shaped artifact
- An ice cream cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (slang, by extension) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- A traffic cone.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
verb
noun
adj
verb
adj
- (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
- Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
- Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
- (bookmaking) Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
- deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
noun
verb
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
adv
- So as to form a sharp, or tight, angle.
- Piercingly; keenly; severely; painfully.
- Quickly and alertly.
- Rapidly, abruptly.
- (to describe breathing) Suddenly and intensely like a gasp, but typically as the result of an emotional reaction.
- Steeply; precipitously.
- Stylishly, smartly.
- Precisely, accurately.
- So as to terminate in a sharp point or edge.
- In an intellectually alert and penetrating manner.
- In a strongly distinguishing or differentiating manner; acutely.
- Of speech, sternly, harshly or critically.
- in an aggressive manner
- changing suddenly in direction and degree
- very suddenly and to a great degree
- in a well delineated manner
adj
- having a broad or rounded end
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
verb
- make dull or blunt
- make less sharp
- make numb or insensitive
- make less intense
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
noun
adj
verb
adj
- having a round shape tapered at one end
- (of sounds) full and rich
- Having gynoid fat distribution, not android fat distribution.
- (slang, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Wrong, awry, usually in the phrase go pear-shaped.
- (of a vocal or musical tone) rich, mellow, sonorous
- Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
adj
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- (of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- (slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Even; tied
- (automotive) Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- (nautical) Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- providing abundant nourishment
- rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- leaving no balance
- without evasion or compromise
- having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
- characterized by honesty and fairness
adv
noun
- (real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- (geometry) A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- (colloquial, US) Ellipsis of square meal.
- (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
- (computing) A pattern to be matched that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
- (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- (slang, MLE) A well-defined torso.
- (slang) Cigarette.
- (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A cell in a grid.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- (Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- (military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- (academia) A mortarboard.
- something approximating the shape of a square
- an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
- a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
- (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
- any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- the product of two equal terms
- a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles
verb
- (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- (transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- (rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- (nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- (ambitransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- (transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
- (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
- (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- cause to match, as of ideas or acts
- make square
- be compatible with
- position so as to be square
- turn the oar, while rowing
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- raise to the second power
- pay someone and settle a debt
adj
- Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
- (sports, games) Having no points
- (mathematics) Without points.
- Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.
- (programming, derogatory) Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.
- Having no prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- having no points scores
- not having a point especially a sharp point
adj
verb
adj
- (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
- (archaeology) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
- (botany, mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
noun
verb
adj
- (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
- Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
- Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
- (bookmaking) Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
- deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
noun
adj
noun
- (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
- an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
noun
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
adj
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
adv
verb
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
adj
verb
adj
noun
- (countable) One who bluffs; a bluffer.
- (poker, countable or uncountable) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
- (countable or uncountable) An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
- A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
- the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
- a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
- pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
verb
- (by analogy) To frighten, deter, or deceive with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate or gain some advantage.
- (Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally, to lie (to someone), to deceive; to put on an act.
- To fluff, puff or swell up.
- (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger than it is.
- To perform or achieve by bluffing.
- deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand
- frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is
adj
noun
adv
verb
adj
- Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
- (Newfoundland) ill-tempered; grumpy; cranky.
- Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
- (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
- having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
- irregular in shape or outline
- having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive