incumbent
superincumbent
overlying
rest
lap
decumbence
loll
overlie
superjacent
pillow
subjacent
lay back
inframundane
repose
truthward
cap
cuddle
chill
traverse
subterposition
underlie
knee-jerkery
lay
reclinant
recline
decubital
outlie
downsitting
infraposition
mislie
dormant
straddle
lay down
squattiness
overtread
span
inswung
center
easterly
orthogonality
sprawl
endwise
chillax
superficial
external
laydown
lean on
eastern
outer
onfall
lie
accumbent
decumbent
hunker
apply
lay behind
set
couchancy
recumbent
flat on one's back
outside
exocentric
circumferential
flatten
outlean
plop down
lounge
application
lean
squatter
sludge
preoccupation
squattle
nestle
anodyne
subject
start
tilty
in-between
isolated
perpendicularness
reclination
bottom
duck down
collinear
recumbence
interjacent
horn in
snuggle up
lie-down
incumbent
superincumbent
overlying
superjacent
subjacent
inframundane
truthward
traverse
reclinant
decubital
dormant
inswung
easterly
endwise
superficial
external
eastern
outer
accumbent
decumbent
recumbent
flat on one's back
outside
exocentric
circumferential
anodyne
subject
tilty
in-between
isolated
collinear
interjacent
decumbence
subterposition
knee-jerkery
downsitting
infraposition
straddle
squattiness
span
orthogonality
laydown
lie
couchancy
lounge
application
squatter
preoccupation
onfall
perpendicularness
reclination
recumbence
lie-down
rest
lap
loll
overlie
pillow
lay back
repose
cap
cuddle
chill
underlie
lay
recline
outlie
mislie
lay down
overtread
center
sprawl
chillax
lean on
onfall
hunker
apply
lay behind
set
flatten
outlean
plop down
lean
sludge
squattle
nestle
start
bottom
duck down
horn in
snuggle up
lie
verb
- To lean, lie, or lay.
- To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- To rely or depend on.
- To be or to put into a state of rest.
- To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To sleep; slumber.
- To come to a pause or an end; end.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- To lie dormant.
- To stay, remain, be situated.
noun
- A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- Absence of motion.
- Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- A final position after death.
- A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- That which remains.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
verb
- To lie over or on top of something.
- To set an upper limit on something.
- To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- To convert text to uppercase.
- To make something even more wonderful at the end.
- To lie; to tell a lie.
- To select to play for the national team.
- To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
- To select a player to play for a specified side.
- To cover or seal with a cap.
- To surpass or outdo.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- To deprive of a cap.
noun
- An uppercase or capital letter.
- A recording or screenshot.
- Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
- The top part of a mushroom.
- A place on a national team; an international appearance.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
- A lie or exaggeration.
- The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
- A large size of writing paper.
- A crown for covering a tooth.
- A capitalist.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
- capillary
- Capitalization.
- A protective cover or seal.
- A capacitor.
- A capsule of a drug.
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
- A bullet used to shoot someone.
- A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
verb
- To relax; to lie back.
- To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- To become hard by rapid cooling.
- To smoke marijuana.
- To discourage, depress.
- To become cold.
- To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
adj
- "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
- Moderately cold or chilly.
- Okay, not a problem.
- Unwelcoming; not cordial.
- Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
noun
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
adj
adv
verb
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- 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.
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
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
adj
noun
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
- a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
verb
verb
- To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.
- simple past tense of lie down
- To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
- To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.
- To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).
- To euthanize an animal.
- To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
- To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.
- To place on the ground, e.g. a railway on a trackbed.
noun
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the complete duration of something
- the distance or interval between two points
- two items of the same kind
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
verb
verb
- To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
- To give (something) a central basis.
- To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
- To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
- To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
adj
noun
- A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
- The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
- One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
- The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates.
- The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
- The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
- The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
- A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.
- The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
- A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
- A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
- The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
- The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
- The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
- The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
- The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
- One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
- A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
noun
- A manner of lying; relative position.
- An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- The position of a fetus in the womb.
- Anything that misleads or disappoints.
- The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
- The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- An animal's lair.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
verb
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- To convey a false image or impression.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To be placed or situated.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
- To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
verb
- To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
- To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
- To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative
- To address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
- To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention
- To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
- To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
verb
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
- relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
- located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
adj
- coming from the outside
- originating or belonging beyond some bounds
- functioning outside the boundaries or precincts of an organized unit
- leading to or from the outside
- from or between other countries
- unlikely to occur
- on or toward an outer edge
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
noun
adv
verb
- To be knocked down or laid low.
- To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
- To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
- To knock down or lay low.
- To make something flat or flatter.
- To lower by a semitone.
- To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
- To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
- To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
noun
- The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
- An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
- The living room or sitting room of a house.
- A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
- A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
verb
noun
- The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
verb
- Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
- To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To hang outwards.
- To conceal.
- To press against.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
adj
- Having little fat.
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- Slim; not fleshy.
- Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
noun
verb
noun
adj
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
noun
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- That of which something is stated.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
verb
verb
- To flinch or draw back.
- To begin.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
noun
- The act of leaning or reclining.
- Removal of a cataract by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
- The angle made by the plane of a dial with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
verb
- To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
- To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
noun
- Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The far end of somewhere.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- The buttocks or anus.
- Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
- Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- An abyss.
- The lowest part of anything.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The lowest part of a container.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
adj
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