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verb
- To search an area thoroughly.
- To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
- To run with speed; to scurry.
- To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
- To move swiftly over; to brush along.
- To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
- To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To search through (thoroughly).
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
noun
- One who searches.
- An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
- An officer who apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland.
- A customs officer responsible for searching ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
- An inspector of leather.
- A sieve or strainer.
- An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
- An implement for sampling butter.
- An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
verb
verb
- To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
- To act as a spy.
- To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- To spot; to catch sight of.
noun
- A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
verb
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
noun
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
verb
- To search rapidly.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move swiftly.
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
noun
- The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- Special interest of an autistic person.
- Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- A single play of a record by a radio station.
verb
- To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- To discover game.
- To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- To determine or judge.
- To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- Locate on behalf of another
- To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- To point out.
noun
verb
- To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
- To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
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noun
- A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- An official determination of placement.
- A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Penalty spot.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- An autosoliton.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A parking space.
- One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- A difficult situation.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A decimal point; point.
- A location or area.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
verb
- go through (an area) in search of prey
- walk stiffly
- follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
noun
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
- the act of following prey stealthily
- a stiff or threatening gait
verb
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
verb
- To search for, to try to find.
- As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
- To make sure of, to see to.
- To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
- To give an appearance of being.
- To express or manifest by a look.
- To face or present a view.
- To expect or anticipate.
- As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
- To appear, to seem.
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noun
verb
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
noun
verb
- To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
- To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
- To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
noun
verb
- To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
- To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- To ponder or think about (something).
noun
- A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- The brain; the head.
- An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
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