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roll up on
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verb
- To provide assistance to (someone or something).
- To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
- To provide assistance.
- To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
- To do something on the behalf of someone.
- To contribute in some way to.
intj
noun
- Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
- Action given to provide assistance; aid.
- Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
- A study aid.
- One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
- Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
verb
- To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
- To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
- To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
- To call to arms for defense
- To keep in excitement; to disturb.
noun
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- A sudden attack; disturbance.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
phrase
- Said as a request for an individual's attention.
- Said as an expression of unexpected or early farewell.
- Said as a request to pass somebody.
- Sorry, as an apology.
- Said as a request to repeat information.
- Said, as though as a request to repeat information, in order to indicate disbelief or indignation.
noun
verb
- To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
- To offer, usually unprompted.
- To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
- To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
- To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
noun
- A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
- A voluntary member of the organized militia of a country, as distinguished from a regular or member of the standing army.
- One who enters into military service voluntarily (but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers), as opposed to a conscript.
- A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
- One who enters into, or offers themself for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
- A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
noun
- assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal
- a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain
- a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment
- the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction
- a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
- satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
verb
verb
adv
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
- into the goal
- To the home page
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
- To one's place of birth
- into the right, proper or stowed position
adj
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign
- Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
noun
- The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- Home plate.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
verb
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
- take a court case to a higher court for review
- be attractive to
- challenge (a decision)
- cite as an authority; resort to
noun
- earnest or urgent request
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
- request for a sum of money
noun
- An instance of seeking something.
- A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- A woman.
- The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A male homosexual; a gay man.
- An easy victim for swindling.
- A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
- Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
- A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
- Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
- Cod; codfish.
- Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
- A period of time spent fishing.
- A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
verb
- To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- To use as bait when fishing.
- To hoist the flukes of.
- To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
noun
noun
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- The military.
- A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
- The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
- The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
- Access to resources such as hotel rooms and web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
- Service tree.
verb
noun
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
- One who gatekeeps.
- In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
noun
- a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
- close interaction
- the act of touching physically
- the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
- the physical coming together of two or more things
- a channel for communication between groups
- (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
- a communicative interaction
- a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
verb
verb
- To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
- To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang.
- To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
noun
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- A person.
- An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
- Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger
- A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.
- Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
- Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
verb
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To store for future use.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
conj
noun
- The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- A saving throw.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
prep
noun
verb
adj
- marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
- concerning things deeply private and personal
- having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere
- having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
- used euphemistically to refer to the genitals
- involved in a sexual relationship
- innermost or essential
- thoroughly acquainted through study or experience
verb
noun
- an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
- a room in which a law court sits
- the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state
- a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played
- the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
- a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area
- the residence of a sovereign or nobleman
- an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
- respectful deference
verb
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- make a discovery, make a new finding
- obtain through effort or management
- decide on and make a declaration about
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
- get or find back; recover the use of
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
noun
verb
- To obtain access to something; to meet the requirements of a security or protection system.
- To undermine something that has control over a situation; to find a way to counter or oppose.
- To make available.
- To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
- To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
- To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge or potential.
- To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
noun
verb
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- result or issue
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- come to the surface
- originate or come into being
- move upward
- be mentioned
- start running, functioning, or operating
- come up, of celestial bodies
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- gather or bring together
verb
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something.
- To reconnect or meet with someone that one used to know.
- To obtain information about something from a reference book.
- To have better prospects.
- To enter a query into a database or search engine.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, up.
verb
- To request or desire to do an activity.
- To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
- To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
- I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.
- To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
- To desire; to want.
noun
verb
- To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To lend.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- To adopt a word from another language.
- To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
noun
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