balance
residue
remainder
residuum
rest
residual
remaining
undercut
scrap
bare
desorbate
discarding
left-behind
cut
shortened
riddling
tag end
extractive
remain
remains
wreckage
rubble
debris
detritus
junk
dust
unpacked
scraping
apart
regrowth
crop
expurgated
landfill
discard
end
oddment
remnant
screening
wiping
litter
fill again
replenish
cutting
refill
wreck
cutaway
scrag end
cut up
flake
unsheathing
shearing
unboxing
offcut
palimpsest
chip
morcellation
buried treasure
fleck
unerase
bit
disposal
knockdown
packaging
removable
smithereens
deposit
discardable
fallow
key
redried
depreservation
astromaterial
bite
burr
fiddleback
leftover
delenda
reborrowing
disrobing
corrasion
slimline
odd
disposable
unsticking
amputated
snippage
remaining
bare
cut
shortened
unpacked
apart
expurgated
cutaway
cut up
knockdown
fallow
redried
slimline
amputated
balance
residue
remainder
residuum
rest
residual
undercut
scrap
desorbate
discarding
left-behind
riddling
tag end
extractive
remains
wreckage
rubble
debris
detritus
junk
dust
scraping
regrowth
crop
landfill
discard
end
oddment
remnant
screening
wiping
litter
cutting
wreck
scrag end
flake
unsheathing
shearing
unboxing
offcut
palimpsest
chip
morcellation
buried treasure
fleck
bit
disposal
packaging
removable
smithereens
deposit
discardable
key
depreservation
astromaterial
bite
burr
fiddleback
leftover
delenda
reborrowing
disrobing
corrasion
odd
disposable
unsticking
snippage
remain
fill again
replenish
refill
unerase
undercut
noun
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a state of equilibrium
- equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- equality of distribution
- the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- a weight that balances another weight
- a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
- a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
verb
noun
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
- the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
verb
noun
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a pause for relaxation
- a state of inaction
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- a support on which things can be put
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
verb
- not move; be in a resting position
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- give a rest to
- have a place in relation to something else
- be at rest
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
- sit, as on a branch
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- be inactive, refrain from acting
noun
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
verb
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut away the underpart of
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
adj
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- A lot or lots of.
- Having no decoration.
- Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- Threadbare, very worn.
- Naked, uncovered.
- Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
- Having no supplies.
- With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- Mere; without embellishment.
- Not insured.
noun
- The surface, the (bare) skin.
- Surface; body; substance.
- That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
verb
adv
adj
- with parts removed
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- mixed with water
verb
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- make an incision or separation
- discharge from a group
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- make out and issue
- cut and assemble the components of
- intentionally fail to attend
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- give the appearance or impression of
- move (one's fist)
- pass directly and often in haste
- pass through or across
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- stop filming
- make a recording of
- record a performance on (a medium)
- create by duplicating data
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- perform or carry out
- function as a cutting instrument
- allow incision or separation
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- reap or harvest
- fell by sawing; hew
- penetrate injuriously
- refuse to acknowledge
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- have a reducing effect
- cease, stop
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- have grow through the gums
- grow through the gums
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
noun
- a share of the profits
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- a step on some scale
- a wound made by cutting
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
adj
verb
- To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
- To await; to be left to.
- To continue in a state of being.
- To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
noun
noun
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- The foliate part of a finial.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
- A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
- A short haircut.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- The act of cropping.
verb
- To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To cause to bear a crop.
- To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- To yield harvest.
- To mow, reap or gather.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- either extremity of something that has length
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- a final state
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the part you are expected to play
- the last section of a communication
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
verb
noun
- Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
- The showing of a film
- A method to identify a disease in a population which is not showing any symptoms of this disease.
- The process of checking or filtering.
- The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions
- shielding
- Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.
- Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").
noun
- Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
- Material used as bedding for animals.
- A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
- A covering of straw for plants.
- Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
- The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
- Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
verb
- To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- To give birth to, used of animals.
- To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- To scatter carelessly about.
- To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
- To produce a litter of young.
noun
- a piece cut off from the main part of something
- the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of cutting something into parts
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of diluting something
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
adj
noun
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
- Something or someone that has been ruined.
- A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
- Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
verb
- To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
- To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
- To ruin or dilapidate.
adj
noun
- The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
- A coat with a tapered frontline.
- A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.
- A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior
- An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.
adj
- Having been cut into smaller pieces.
- Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.
- Muscular and lean.
- Wounded with multiple lacerations.
verb
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
noun
- The material cut off in this way.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- The act or operation of reaping.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
adj
noun
- Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
- The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
- A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
- Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
- Memory that has been erased and re-written.
- Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
verb
noun
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- the act of chipping something
verb
noun
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece or quantity of something
- an indefinitely short time
- an instance of some kind
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small fragment
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
adj
- Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal.
- To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.
- reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer
- powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down
verb
noun
- The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- An overwhelming blow.
noun
- Anything left behind on a surface.
- Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
- That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another.
- A place of deposit; a depository.
- Money placed in an account.
- A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
verb
adj
- Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
- Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
- Inactive; undeveloped.
noun
- Uncultivated land.
- The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
- Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
verb
noun
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- A keystone.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
adj
verb
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
noun
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- a strong odor or taste property
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
verb
noun
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- And when his body was against the burr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
- A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had high burr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
- A rough humming sound.
- 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
- A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280
- A burr knot or burl.
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry
- A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
- A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
- A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- The ear lobe.
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called a burr.
- burr or ring of iron behind the hand
- 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290
- 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
verb
noun
adj
- About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- Used or employed for odd jobs.
- Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- Numbered with an odd number.
- Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- Not regular or planned.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- On the left.
- Out of the way, secluded.
- Numerically indivisible by two.
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