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verb
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
- To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- To make something dirty.
- To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
noun
- A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- A mark made by smearing.
- A rough glissando in jazz music.
- A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
adj
verb
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- form into grains
- become granular
noun
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a cereal grass
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
noun
- A mist or film clouding a surface.
- A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- Distance fog.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. (Compare mist, haze.)
- Moss.
verb
- To become obscured in condensation or water.
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- To cover with or as if with fog.
- To obscure in condensation or water.
- To make dim or obscure.
- To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- To become dim or obscure.
- To make confusing or obscure.
- To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- To become covered with or as if with fog.
- To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
verb
- To produce a rippled texture on a surface.
- To play a washboard.
- To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax.
noun
- A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road caused by interaction between traffic and road surface.
- A board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard.
- Such a board used as a simple percussion instrument.
- A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed.
noun
- The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
- A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
- (Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.
- Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
verb
- To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
- To blot ink using sand.
- To cover with sand.
noun
- A beach or other expanse of sand.
- A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom)
- Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- A sandpiper.
- A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
adj
verb
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
verb
noun
- The area around the green
- A marginal or peripheral part.
- The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
- The periphery of a town or city (or other area).
- Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- A decorative border.
- Non-mainstream theatre.
adj
verb
- To sandpaper.
- To apply paper to.
- To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
- To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
- To enfold in paper.
- To document; to memorialize.
- To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
- To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
noun
- A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
- A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
- A scholastic essay.
- A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
- Any financial assets other than specie.
- A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
- Wallpaper.
- A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
- An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- Wrapping paper.
- A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- Money.
- A university course.
- A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
- A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
adj
adj
verb
- To reflect off a surface and return.
- To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
- To reflect back (a sound).
- To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
noun
- An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
- A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
noun
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- A setline or trotline.
verb
noun
- Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
- A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
- The shaft of a wagon.
- A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
- One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
- The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
verb
verb
- To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
- To yield grass for grazing.
- To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
- To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
noun
adj
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
adj
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
intj
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
noun
noun
- A skew surface.
- The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
- A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
- A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
- An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
- A turbinate bone.
- A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
- The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.
- A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
- Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
verb
- To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
- To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
- To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel to move in gradual increments.
noun
- The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
- An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
- A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
- A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
- A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
- A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
- Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
- A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
verb
noun
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- An instance of squeezing.
- A close or tight fit.
- The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- A difficult position.
- A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A romantic partner.
- A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
verb
- To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
- To fit into a tight place.
verb
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- 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 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 search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- 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.
noun
- a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
- the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
- an unpolished unrefined quality
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
- rowdy behavior
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- harsh or severe speech or behavior
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