go in for
join
take up the cudgels
measure strength
mano a mano
square up
rematch
event
each way
-athlon
tiebreaker
race
contestable
banter
blowout
play fight
footy tipping
contest
bout
compete
in the lead
one turn kill
ass-rape
battle it out
jockey for position
competition
pro-am
photo finish
mortal combat
qualifier
Hunger Games
contestingly
run-in
recontest
battle
squeeze out
contend
vie
run for the roses
gala
cough up
tie
tilt
gladiator
football pool
shower
tune-up
whoop ass
cowinner
contestably
battle line
slugfest
handicap
defend
trial
walk away with
game
breeze past
overcome
rubber
come first
hit-out
entrant
lay a glove on
championship
place
tear it up
forerunner
pick sides
outsmart
fix
in the money
exacta
raffle
round
pull ahead
-off
on level terms
best
perfecta
arms race
cliffhanger
mercy rule
clutch
barrage
dicelike
battle of the sexes
knock out
matchup
guessing game
mop up
quibble
scratch race
each way
contestable
dicelike
mano a mano
each way
contestingly
contestably
mano a mano
event
tiebreaker
race
blowout
footy tipping
contest
one turn kill
competition
pro-am
photo finish
mortal combat
qualifier
Hunger Games
run-in
battle
run for the roses
gala
tie
tilt
football pool
shower
tune-up
cowinner
battle line
slugfest
handicap
trial
game
rubber
hit-out
entrant
championship
forerunner
fix
exacta
round
perfecta
arms race
cliffhanger
mercy rule
barrage
battle of the sexes
matchup
guessing game
scratch race
go in for
join
take up the cudgels
measure strength
square up
rematch
banter
play fight
bout
compete
ass-rape
battle it out
jockey for position
race
recontest
squeeze out
contend
vie
cough up
gladiator
whoop ass
defend
walk away with
breeze past
overcome
come first
lay a glove on
place
tear it up
pick sides
outsmart
raffle
pull ahead
best
clutch
knock out
mop up
quibble
verb
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
- To unite in marriage.
- To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- To come into the company of.
- To come together; to meet.
- To become a member of.
- To connect or combine into one; to put together.
- To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
noun
noun
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
- A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- An episode of severe health conditions.
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
suffix
noun
- any competition
- a contest of speed
- people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock
- (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- a canal for a current of water
verb
noun
- A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.
- A large or extravagant meal.
- A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
- The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
- A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
- An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
- An argument; an altercation.
- A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
- A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
- The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
verb
prep
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- A preliminary stage of a competition.
- One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
- A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
- A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
verb
verb
- compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- maintain or assert
- have an argument about something
- to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
noun
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A tiewig.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A lace-up shoe.
- A connection between two vertices.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
noun
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A tilt hammer.
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
verb
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To be at an angle.
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A baby shower.
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
- One who shows.
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A bridal shower.
- A shower of shit.
- A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself.
- A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
verb
noun
- Any of those parts of a contest which, as a result of strategic decisions on both sides, are most closely fought and will likely determine the contest's course and outcome.
- The notional line on either side of which opposing forces are arrayed, and at which they meet in battle; a fortified line, short of the line where battle is expected, and behind which forces are arrayed; a forward line of infantry or other force, prepared for battle.
- A line of battle.
noun
- A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
- An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
- The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
verb
verb
- To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
- To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- To call a raise from the big blind.
- To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
- To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
noun
- An opportunity to test something out; a test.
- Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined.
- A difficult or annoying experience, (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety
- A clinical trial, a research study.
- A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
- The trial number.
- A tryout to pick members of a team.
- An internal examination set by Eton College.
verb
- To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
- To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
adj
noun
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- an amusement or pastime
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- your occupation or line of work
- frivolous or trifling behavior
verb
adj
noun
- a contest consisting of a series of successive matches between the same sides
- an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
- any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber
- an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
adj
verb
verb
- To earn a given spot in a competition.
- To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
- To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
- To place-kick (a goal).
noun
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- A state of mind.
- The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
- An area of the body, especially the skin.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- A location or position in space.
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
verb
- To compete extremely well, to trounce the competition.
- To succeed in a big way.
- To display great energy or force.
- To display sexual prowess.
- To behave with wild abandon; to indulge in sex, drugs, and/or alcohol.
- To perform with great energy and flair.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, it, up.
noun
- By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
- A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.
- A runner at the front or ahead.
- A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
- A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
noun
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- A repair or corrective action.
- A determination of location.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
verb
- To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
- To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- To mend, to repair.
- To prepare (food or drink).
- To map a (point or subset) to itself.
prep_phrase
- Achieving a sufficiently high ranking in a contest to earn money (for oneself, or for those who have placed a bet).
- For an option, having a strike price which makes it profitable to exercise. For a call this is a strike below the market price, or for a put a strike above the market price.
- Possessing money; rich.
noun
- A stage in a competition.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A stage or level of a game.
- The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- The play after each deal.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
adj
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Large in magnitude.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Plump.
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- Vaulted.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
verb
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- To shape something into a curve.
- To turn past a boundary.
- To advance to home plate.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- To do ward rounds.
- To become shaped into a curve.
- To finish; to complete; to fill out.
prep_phrase
verb
- To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
- To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
- To hatch.
- To seize, as though with claws.
- To grip or grasp tightly.
adj
noun
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
noun
- A "next hit wins" contest to determine the winner of a bout in case of a tie.
- A concentrated discharge of projectile weapons.
- Type of firework containing a mixture of firework types in one single-ignition package.
- A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.
- An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.
- An overwhelming outburst of words, especially of criticism.
verb
adj
verb
- To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- To put to sleep.
- To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
- To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- To exhaust.
- To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- To communicate (a message) by knocking.
verb
- To win a competition decisively.
- After they argued, it fell to me to talk to her and try to mop up.
- To get rid of (enemies) within a certain area.
- To clean up an area destroyed by a natural disaster or by violent activity.
- To pitch the final innings especially of a game that is no longer close.
- To consume or get rid of an excess of something.
- To finish something off; to apply a finishing touch
- To fix problems; to correct or repair.
- To clean up (liquid) with a mop, rag, sponge, or other cleaning device.
- To absorb the leftovers of a dish with bread etc., in order to eat them.
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