referee assistant
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referee
man in black
linesman
refereeship
video official
stickler
television match official
ref
call
reference
makeup call
jobanowl
umpire
officiate
judge
line judge
officiator
book
wave off
play to the whistle
crew chief
noncall
Hellanodic
advantaged
unofficiated
unrefereed
gyoji
field judge
officiation
man-marking
video assistant referee
flange
play the advantage
tee up
infraction
no contest
bound bailiff
tap
captain
get-back coach
self-officiated
shire
diver
white maggot
football official
assistant referee
delinquency
short corner
subconstable
umpirage
blow the whistle
interference
point penalty
arbitration
screen
wrongness
block
zone
penalty area
penalty corner
defensively
inappropriateness
pick up
mono-ii
on the road
dirty pool
official
steward
rough
ump
out-of-bounds
buzzer flag
umpy
defensive
defensive attitude
skunk up
trenches
nonrefereed
malpractice
precept
parry
professional foul
principle
play
diving
sportsmanly
cuts
blocker
advantaged
unofficiated
unrefereed
self-officiated
out-of-bounds
nonrefereed
sportsmanly
defensively
referee assistant
zebra
man in black
linesman
refereeship
video official
stickler
television match official
reference
makeup call
jobanowl
umpire
judge
line judge
officiator
book
referee
crew chief
noncall
Hellanodic
gyoji
field judge
officiation
man-marking
video assistant referee
flange
infraction
no contest
bound bailiff
call
tap
captain
get-back coach
shire
diver
white maggot
football official
assistant referee
delinquency
short corner
subconstable
umpirage
interference
point penalty
arbitration
wrongness
zone
penalty area
penalty corner
inappropriateness
mono-ii
dirty pool
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ump
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call
officiate
umpire
wave off
play to the whistle
play the advantage
tee up
blow the whistle
screen
block
pick up
rough
skunk up
noun
noun
- A referee.
- A fish, the zebra cichlid.
- An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".)
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
- A zebra crossing.
- Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
- A biracial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.
verb
noun
- An umpire or judge; an official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.
- A person who settles a dispute.
- An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.
- A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone. US English: reference.
noun
- An assistant referee.
- A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
- An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
- A private in the line.
- An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
noun
verb
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- To require, demand.
- To scold.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
noun
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- Need; necessity.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A decision or judgement.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
noun
- A person who provides this information; a referee.
- Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
- The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
- A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
- A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- A reference work.
verb
noun
- The situation where a referee calls out one team in an attempt to make up for a previous call that may have been erroneous.
- A verbal or written request, or a scheduled time, for actors or models to be available for the application of cosmetics, hairstyling, etc. prior to a performance or photography session.
noun
- The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.
- A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses three; in the past there were two or just one. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.
- One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
- The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.
- One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.
- A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
- The official who presides over a curling game.
verb
noun
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
verb
- To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- To form an opinion; to infer.
- To judicially rule or determine.
- To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
- To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- To criticize or label another person or thing.
noun
- A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
- A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- A major division of a long work.
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- Records of the accounts of a business.
- A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
- Six tricks taken by one side.
- Four of a kind.
- The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- The script of a musical or opera.
- A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
- The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- Any source of instruction.
- The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
verb
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- To receive the highest grade in a class.
- To leave.
- To reserve (something) for future use.
- To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- simple past tense of bake
- To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
- To travel very fast.
noun
- An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
- The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
- The vulva.
- The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
- The collective noun for a group of baboons.
- An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
verb
noun
- A bout that the referee cancels early, either due to a serious injury early in the fight or due to a lack of action
- The result of a boxing bout, promoted as an exhibition when the sport of boxing was illegal, when a knockout did not occur.
- A clause in a will that imposes a penalty of forfeiture against any beneficiary who challenges the will.
- An election in which the candidate runs unopposed.
- A plea in a criminal case which means that the defendant admits no guilt but is no longer contesting the charges brought against him/her.
intj
noun
- An interception of communication by authority.
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
- A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
- Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
- A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
- An Indian malarial fever.
- The act of touching a touch screen.
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
verb
- To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel.
- To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To put a new sole or heel on.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
- To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
- To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
- To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- To furnish with taps.
- To exploit.
- To cadge, borrow or beg.
- To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
- To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
- To strike lightly.
- To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
- To cut an internal screw thread.
- To make a sharp noise.
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- To force (an opponent) to submit.
noun
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
- The head boy of a school.
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- A chief or leader.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- The leader of a group of workers.
verb
noun
noun
- The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
verb
verb
- To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To present publicly (on the screen).
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- To fit with a screen.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- A disguise; concealment.
verb
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
noun
- A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
- A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
- A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
- A band or stripe extending around a body.
- A circuit; a circumference.
- Any given region or area of the world.
- Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
- A belt or girdle.
- A semicircular area in front of each goal.
- The strike zone.
- A high-performance phase or period.
- A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- A frustum of a sphere.
verb
verb
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
noun
- Person responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and whether or not fines/penalties should be issued for such incidents.
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- Bartender
- A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
- Someone responsible for organizing an event
- A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
- An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity
- A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A flight attendant, especially male.
- A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, and/or animals.
verb
verb
- To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
- To render rough; to roughen.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
noun
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
adj
- Turbulent.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Difficult; trying.
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Not polished; uncut.
- Harsh-tasting.
- Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Not smooth; uneven.
adv
noun
adj
noun
- A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
- A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
- A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion.
verb
noun
- rule of personal conduct
- a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
- a rule or standard especially of good behavior
- a basic truth or law or assumption
- a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
- (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)
noun
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
verb
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure a undeserved penalty.
- The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
- The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.
- Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.
adj
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