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verb
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- work hard
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- created by grinding
- shape or form by grinding
noun
verb
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
noun
verb
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
noun
- A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A shortage.
- A critical moment or event.
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- The symbol #.
verb
adj
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
adj
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- lacking obstructions or difficulties
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
noun
noun
- The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
- A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
- (Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.
- Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
verb
- strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise
- put quickly or forcibly
- cause to strike the air in flight
- clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
- clap one's hands together
- strike the air in flight
- strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting
noun
verb
noun
noun
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- A loan.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- A difficulty or problem.
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To touch the jack with the bowl.
- To be rubbed against something.
- To rub something against (a second thing).
- To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
verb
- To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
- To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.
- To cause to have diarrhea.
- To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
- To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
noun
verb
- To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
- To strike.
- To make a character or an item stronger.
- To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
adj
noun
- Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
- Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
- A military coat made of buff leather.
- A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
- The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
- Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
- A brownish yellow colour.
- A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
- A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
- An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
- The bare skin.
verb
- to make a sound like the one made while gargling
- to use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling.
- to clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth)
- to clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs
noun
verb
- To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- To fit with glass; to glaze.
- To become glassy.
- To enclose in glass.
- To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- To make glassy.
noun
- The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- A barometer.
- Transparent or translucent.
- An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- Lenses, considered collectively.
- Glassware.
- The backboard.
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- A mirror.
- Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
verb
- rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
- touch lightly and briefly
- clean with a brush
- sweep across or over
- remove with or as if with a brush
- cover by brushing
noun
- a dense growth of bushes
- an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
- momentary contact
- conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
- a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- a minor short-term fight
- the act of brushing your teeth
- the act of brushing your hair
- contact with something dangerous or undesirable
verb
- To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
- To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- To fasten or bind with a strap.
noun
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Synonym of strapline
- A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
- A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
verb
- To shape by grinding.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
- To eat very quickly.
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
noun
verb
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- to exert much effort or energy
- test the limits of
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
noun
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- an intense or violent exertion
- the act of singing
verb
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
noun
verb
- To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
- To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- To make something dirty.
- To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
noun
- A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- A mark made by smearing.
- A rough glissando in jazz music.
- A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
verb
- To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- To gather or form cream.
- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
- To take off the best or choicest part of.
- To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
noun
- Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
- The best part of something.
- The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
- A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
- A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
- Semen.
adj
adj
noun
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- Terrain.
- The pit of a theatre.
- A soccer stadium.
- Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- The bottom of a body of water.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- Soil, earth.
- A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
verb
- To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- To place something on the ground.
- To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
verb
- To begin clanging or making noise.
- To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
- To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way.
- To fire, especially accidentally.
- To explode.
- To depart; to leave.
- To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
- To like less.
- (chiefly UK, of epoxy resins) To cure; to set.
- To ejaculate.
- To stop operating; to switch off.
noun
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- Elevation.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- Recruitment.
- The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
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