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verb
- To pick up.
- To accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from.
- To implement, to employ, to put into use.
- To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class.
- To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.
- To occupy; to consume (space or time).
- Synonym of take in (“tighten a belaying rope”)
- To resume.
- To address (an issue).
- To shorten by hemming.
verb
- To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
- To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
verb
- To pick up someone.
- To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- To obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
- To deceive; to perpetrate a hoax on.
- To obtain something desired, or avoid an undesired outcome, through luck or improvisation; To fluke or get away with something; To wing it.
- To inveigle by persuasion.
adj
noun
intj
verb
- To obtain or pick up.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
- To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
noun
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- A sausage.
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- A goal.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A problem or difficulty with something.
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
verb
- To pick (someone) up
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
noun
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- The raised end of a surfboard.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The peak of a cap.
- A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
verb
- To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
- To glean.
- To glean, gather up leavings.
- To release; let go; unloose.
- To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
- To gather.
- To hold a lease as a tenant.
noun
- An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
- An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
- The period of such an interest.
- The document containing such a contract or deed.
- An open pasture or common.
- The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
noun
- the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
- a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
- a warrant to take someone into custody
- anything with restorative powers
- a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
- the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
- mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
- an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
- the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
noun
- Something picked or pulled out.
- Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- A gathering to pick fruit.
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
noun
- The activity of collecting.
- A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
- Debt collection.
verb
- To haul in; to take up.
- To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- To congregate, or assemble.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- To collect; normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To gain; to win.
- To be filled with pus
- To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
noun
- The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
verb
- To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- To conduct oneself; act
- To perform the kip maneuver.
- To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
noun
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- A very untidy house or room.
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
- A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
noun
noun
- A pickpocket.
- A Baptist or Dunker.
- A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
- Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
- The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
- A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
- Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
- One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
- A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
noun
- A pickpocket.
- A cannon bit.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- An autocannon.
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
- The arm of a player who can throw well.
- A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- A carom.
- A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
verb
verb
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
noun
verb
noun
- the act of grasping
- a tense critical situation
- a number of birds hatched at the same time
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand
- a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism
- a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
verb
verb
- To gather or collect by scrambling.
- To be quickly deployed in this manner.
- To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
- To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
- To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
- To partake in motocross.
- To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
- To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
- To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.
- To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
- To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
intj
noun
- An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
- An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
- A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.
- Any frantic period of competitive activity.
- A variant of golf in which each player in a team tees off on each hole, and the players decide which shot was best. Every player then plays their second shot from within a club length of where the best ball has come to rest, and the procedure is repeated until the hole is finished.
- A statistic used in assessing a player's short game, consisting of a chip or putt from under 50 yards away that results in requiring one putt or less on the green.
- A motocross race.
verb
- take hold of; grab
- take or capture by force
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- hook by a pull on the line
- affect
- capture the attention or imagination of
noun
noun
verb
- To snatch or steal.
- To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
noun
- A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
- Pound sterling.
- The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
- nigger.
- A snigger or suppressed laugh.
- Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
- A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- The act of collecting together (aggregating).
- The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
- Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
- The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
- Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.
- A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
verb
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- A pickoff.
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
noun
- Process of collecting again.
- The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
- The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.
- That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.
- A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.
- The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance.
adj
noun
noun
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
verb
adj
verb
- To steal or snatch.
- To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.
- To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
- To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
- To grab or bat quickly.
noun
- A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
- A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
- An attack, insult or critical remark.
- An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
- An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
- Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
- A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
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