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verb
- To scatter or spread.
- To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- To supply to retail outlets.
- To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- To deliver or pass out.
- To divide into portions and dispense.
- To classify or separate into categories.
- To be distributive.
- To apportion (more or less evenly).
noun
- A surface to which a substance adheres.
- A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
- An underlying layer; a substratum.
- The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
- A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
- A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
- A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
adj
verb
noun
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- an upright in house framing
- adult male horse kept for breeding
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
verb
- To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
- To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
- To bring up, broach.
- To make accessible to customers or clients.
- To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- To become open.
- To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
- To enter upon, begin.
- To turn on; to switch on.
- To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
- To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
- To start (a campaign).
- To begin conducting business.
- To reveal one's hand.
- To load into memory for viewing or editing.
adj
- Not fulfilled.
- Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Having a free variable.
- Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
- Public
- Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow.
- With open access, of open science, or both.
- Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Able to have something pass through or along it.
- not covered, showing what is inside
- To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
- Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- Able to be accessed (physically).
- Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended.
- Receptive.
- Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- Whose first and last vertices are different.
noun
noun
- The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
- The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
- An area that protrudes from a surface.
- A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.
- The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
- Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
noun
- That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
- A new addition.
- A product to be used with a previous product.
- The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
- The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
- The string of text thus substituted.
- An act, process, or instance of expanding.
- The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
noun
noun
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
- the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
verb
- To scatter; to spread.
- To climb to the top of.
- To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- To remove the scales of.
noun
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
- A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- A scale insect.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
adj
verb
noun
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
- A floor pad to protect athletes.
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
- A thickly tangled mess.
- An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
verb
noun
- A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
- A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
- The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
- The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
- That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
- The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
- The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
- Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
- The state of abutting.
adj
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
- Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
adv
- In or to prison.
- Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
- Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
- Indoors.
noun
- The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- The interior or inner part.
- (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
prep
noun
- Surface; body; substance.
- The surface, the (bare) skin.
- That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
adj
- A lot or lots of.
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- 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.
verb
adv
noun
- The edge or border of any flat surface.
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
- The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- margin of victory
- That which is ancillary; periphery.
- The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
- The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
- Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
verb
verb
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- to woodshed
- To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
- To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
- To allow to flow or fall.
- To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
noun
- An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
- A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters; used in nuclear physics
verb
- flatten or spread with a roller
- move by turning over or rotating
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
- arrange or coil around
- begin operating or running
- shape by rolling
- execute a roll, in tumbling
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- move, rock, or sway from side to side
- cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
- pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- boil vigorously
- take the shape of a roll or cylinder
- show certain properties when being rolled
noun
- rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- a list of names
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- the act of throwing dice
- walking with a swaying gait
- a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
noun
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- the sound like water splashing
- a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- a patch of bright color
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
verb
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- walk through mud or mire
- dash a liquid upon or against
- mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
- make a splashing sound
- soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- strike and dash about in a liquid
verb
- To radiate, shed, or diffuse.
- To emit rays; to shine.
- To animate by heat or light.
- To treat (food) with ionizing radiation in order to destroy bacteria.
- To decorate with shining ornaments.
- To illuminate; to brighten; to shine light on.
- To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate.
- To treat (a tumour or cancerous growth) with radiation.
adj
verb
- To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- To fall from the pitch.
- To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- To dash or throw
- To dash, rush
adv
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Directly; flatly.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
adj
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
verb
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
noun
- A flat part of something, a flattening.
- An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended.
- The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.
- The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers.
- A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
- The practice of living, with others, in a flat.
- A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint.
- The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something.
- The process of becoming flat.
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