pin
plumulaceous
descendant
pop a squat
cwtch
frame
flopper
cinch
depression
à bas
D
lower
doon
humpy
pin-pricked
truck
chop down
downbent
cata-
tamp
downgoing
pack
tamp down
downfolding
bowbent
fold down
deflex
swarf
nether
squinch
subduct
downfallen
downtrodden
under
postpinning
downlike
downpress
depress
fluffy
decurved
downy
depose
flossy
strike down
retrofract
downsloping
coorie
sagging
decline
downbound
downswept
inbent
lau
alight
decalcation
topple
climb down
downfalling
intangible
tumble
stalling
mess with
returned
spare
turn back
downmodulatory
rappel
gamboised
legatary
down
devex
outbent
cut down
untightened
retroflection
incumbent
softened
downfolded
take a tumble
hook pin
incurvate
triturated
extroflection
preen
repose
rusure
roller
underpadded
downgliding
bowing
introflexed
embog
rope drilling
deadwood
tear up
ground
wry
buckle
plumulaceous
descendant
humpy
pin-pricked
downbent
downgoing
bowbent
downfallen
downtrodden
postpinning
downlike
fluffy
decurved
downy
flossy
retrofract
downsloping
sagging
downswept
inbent
downfalling
intangible
returned
downmodulatory
gamboised
devex
outbent
untightened
incumbent
softened
downfolded
incurvate
triturated
underpadded
downgliding
introflexed
wry
D
doon
nether
under
downbound
down
frame
flopper
depression
downfolding
decalcation
stalling
spare
rappel
legatary
retroflection
hook pin
extroflection
preen
rusure
roller
bowing
rope drilling
deadwood
pin
pop a squat
cwtch
cinch
lower
truck
chop down
tamp
pack
tamp down
fold down
deflex
swarf
squinch
subduct
downpress
depress
depose
strike down
coorie
decline
lau
alight
topple
climb down
tumble
mess with
turn back
cut down
down
take a tumble
repose
embog
tear up
ground
buckle
verb
- To pin down (someone).
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
noun
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
adj
- Descending; going down
- Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
- Descending from a biological ancestor.
noun
- A language that is descended from another.
- A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- A later evolutionary type.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
noun
- The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
- An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
- A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
- The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- An inning.
- A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- The structure of a person's body; the human body.
verb
- Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- To move.
- To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
- To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- Conspire to falsely incriminate a presumably innocent person. See frameup.
- To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
verb
- To tighten down.
- To bring to certain conclusion.
- In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
noun
- Something that is very easy to do.
- A firm hold.
- A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
- A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
- Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
noun
- pushing down
- a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- a sunken or depressed geological formation
- sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
intj
adv
name
adj
noun
- The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
- The penalty arc on a football pitch.
- Canonical decomposition
- A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.
character
intj
verb
- to pull down
- To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- To bring down; to humble
- (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- To reduce the height of
- To depress as to direction
- To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- To make less elevated
- To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
adj
verb
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- To travel, to proceed.
- To trade, exchange; barter.
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To drive a truck.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To convey by truck.
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To persist, to endure.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
noun
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
verb
adj
verb
- press down tightly
- arrange in a container
- fill to capacity
- compress into a wad
- carry, as on one's back
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- press tightly together or cram
- hike with a backpack
- seal with packing
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
noun
- a large indefinite quantity
- a complete collection of similar things
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- an association of criminals
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a group of hunting animals
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
verb
noun
adj
verb
adv
verb
- To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
adj
noun
verb
- To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
- To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
- To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
- To take or swear an oath.
- To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
- To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
adj
adj
noun
verb
verb
- fall down, as if collapsing
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fly around
- fall apart
- throw together in a confused mass
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- fall suddenly and sharply
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
noun
noun
- The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- That which has not been used or expended.
verb
- To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- To desist; to stop; to refrain.
adj
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
adj
noun
adv
- Get down.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
verb
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
adj
adj
- Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
- Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
- Being the current holder of an office or a title.
- Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
- Resting on something else; in botany, said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them
- Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
noun
adj
noun
noun
verb
- To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- To trim up, as trees.
- To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- To flatter.
- To comb; to make orderly.
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
- To show off, posture, or smarm.
- To pin; fasten.
noun
- A rolling pin
- A long wide bandage used in surgery.
- One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
- Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
- A cylindrical (or approximately cylindrical) item used under a heavy object to facilitate moving it; usually several are needed.
- A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
- A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
- A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
- A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
- A roller towel.
- A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
- A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
- A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
- A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
- The cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
- A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
- An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
- One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
- Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
- A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
- A throw which involves the player throwing the disc in a way that makes it roll, by that being able to travel further than if thrown in the air. Only used on holes with open areas with short or no grass.
- Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
- A wheelchair user.
verb
verb
noun
- Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- Cards that have been discarded.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
- Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
verb
- To wrench out of the ground.
- To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- To damage.
- To have intense penetrative sex with.
- To brutally assault.
- To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- To tear into pieces.
- To start shedding tears.
verb
- To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- 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 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.
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 buckle down; to apply oneself.
- To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
- To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
- To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
- To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
- To fasten using a buckle.
- To unite in marriage.
noun
- A contorted expression, as of the face.
- A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
- A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
- An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
- The brisure of an eighth daughter.
- A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
- A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
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