crosswise
crossing
widthways
widthwise
transversal
transverse
cross
thwartwise
lengthways
lengthwise
reclinant
depthwise
oblong
stretch
unfold
extend
stretch out
bestretched
diametrically
aslant
traverse
longitudinally
breadthwise
stretched
hield
inswung
multisecond
inclination
tractile
skew
extent
translimbal
diametrical
diametral
antrorse
diametric
expand
inflected
spread out
benthically
incavity
compass
arm
hyperextensible
extended
rearwardly
bending
thwart
protension
prostrately
transtegmental
trailer
upbow
lap
convex
terminal
repand
bulging
bow
circumnutate
lateral
end
paracotylar
asprawl
down
retroflexed
crosswedge
bull's nose
circular
downward
retroflex
diameterwise
orthogonality
forestretch
scoot over
elbow
sidelong
retrorse
forthdrawing
torsion
tortuousness
atilt
tortuosity
contortion
crookedness
for
up
crosswise
crossing
transversal
transverse
cross
thwartwise
widthways
widthwise
lengthways
lengthwise
reclinant
oblong
bestretched
breadthwise
stretched
inswung
multisecond
tractile
depthwise
traverse
translimbal
diametrical
diametral
antrorse
diametric
inflected
hyperextensible
extended
thwart
transtegmental
convex
repand
bulging
lateral
paracotylar
down
retroflexed
downward
retroflex
sidelong
retrorse
forthdrawing
up
widthways
widthwise
depthwise
lengthwise
diametrically
aslant
longitudinally
breadthwise
benthically
rearwardly
prostrately
diameterwise
atilt
inclination
extent
incavity
arm
bending
protension
trailer
terminal
end
crosswedge
bull's nose
orthogonality
forestretch
elbow
torsion
tortuousness
tortuosity
contortion
crookedness
stretch
unfold
extend
stretch out
traverse
hield
skew
expand
spread out
compass
upbow
lap
bow
circumnutate
circular
scoot over
adj
noun
- A pair of intersecting edges.
- The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque
- Movement into a crossed position.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
adj
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
noun
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
verb
verb
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- occupy a large, elongated area
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- lie down comfortably
- pull in opposite directions
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- extend one's body or limbs
adj
noun
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
verb
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend in scope or range or area
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- make available; provide
- thrust or extend out
- reach outward in space
- offer verbally
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- expand the influence of
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- cause to move at full gallop
- open or straighten out; unbend
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- prolong the time allowed for payment of
- continue or extend
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
verb
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
adj
adv
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
verb
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To hurl or throw.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
adv
adj
- Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
noun
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- The coping of a gable.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- 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.
- 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 bias or distortion in a particular direction.
verb
- extend in one or more directions
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- grow vigorously
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- expand the influence of
verb
noun
noun
- A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
- A pitcher
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
- The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
- One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- A branch of an organization.
- A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- A weapon.
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- Power; might; strength; support.
adj
verb
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
- To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
- To become prepared for action; to activate.
adj
noun
- A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
- A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
verb
noun
- Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
- A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
- A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
- The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
- The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.
- A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
- A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
- An unpowered wheeled vehicle, not a caravan or camper, that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc, that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.
- Someone who or something that trails.
verb
verb
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- 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
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
adj
- 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
- being or situated at an end
adj
verb
- To become bent or curved.
- To defer (to something).
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To make something bend or curve.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To debut.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
adj
- Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.
- Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.
- To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
- Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
- Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
noun
- An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
- An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
- A lateral pass.
verb
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- a final state
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the part you are expected to play
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
verb
adj
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- becoming progressively lower
- being put out in a game of baseball
- understood perfectly
- lower than previously
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- filled with melancholy and despondency
adj
verb
- drink down entirely
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come or go down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
noun
- soft fine feathers
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
adv
noun
- Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
- The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
- Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
- A hit with the elbow.
- Two nearby crossings of a rope.
verb
prep
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
- Due or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- Used in various more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Intended to cure, remove or counteract; in order to cure, remove or counteract.
- So (that), in order to
- On behalf of.
- Used to introduce a subject within a to-infinitive clause.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- Because of.
- Over (a period of time).
- To be, or as being.
- Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- Supporting, in favour of.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In honor of; after.
- Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- Despite, in spite of.
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
particle
conj
adj
- extending or moving toward a higher place
- out of bed
- getting higher or more vigorous
- (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness
- open
- (used of computers) operating properly
- used up
verb
adv
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
- to a higher intensity
- nearer to the speaker
- to a more central or a more northerly place
- to a later time
adj
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