slating
roofing
shindle
slate
eaving
zax
slate roof
verge
roofer
reroofing
rooflet
housetop
rooftop
rooflike
roofward
eggcrate
queen
roofing material
subroof
roof
roofed
through the ceiling
slater
roofied
Atticistic
remounting
setting
ecoroof
lead
shingle
shake
thatcher's rake
underroof
roof assembly
erection
sarking
hipped roof
terrace
stay
lofting
purlin
bare
sax
scaffold
draw-up
thatcher
deck roof
lay
bougar
roofie
egg-crating
mop-and-flop
joist
roofless
cap sheet
hypostyle
gantry
rooflessness
put up
canopy
tegulation
dirtying
soilure
saddle joint
soiling
jettying
sile
roost
terrasse
scaffoldy
zinc
habitual
roof tile
overbuild
frame
towerwork
constructing
hoard
mounting
perch
upfold
parasol
construance
stage
raising
inchoative
combing ridge
turbiniform
atticlike
atticky
rooflike
roofed
roofied
Atticistic
underroof
stay
roofless
hypostyle
scaffoldy
turbiniform
atticlike
atticky
roofward
slating
roofing
shindle
slate
eaving
zax
slate roof
verge
roofer
reroofing
rooflet
housetop
rooftop
eggcrate
queen
roofing material
subroof
slater
remounting
setting
ecoroof
lead
shingle
shake
thatcher's rake
roof assembly
erection
sarking
hipped roof
terrace
lofting
purlin
bare
sax
draw-up
thatcher
deck roof
bougar
egg-crating
mop-and-flop
joist
cap sheet
gantry
rooflessness
canopy
tegulation
dirtying
soilure
saddle joint
soiling
jettying
sile
roost
terrasse
zinc
habitual
roof tile
frame
roof
towerwork
constructing
hoard
mounting
parasol
construance
stage
raising
inchoative
combing ridge
roof
shindle
scaffold
lay
roofie
put up
overbuild
perch
upfold
noun
- A roofing-tile made of slate.
- An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
- A list of affiliated candidates for an election.
- A record of money owed.
- A tablet computer.
- A thin plate of any material; a flake.
- A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- The bluish-grey colour of most slate.
- A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.
verb
- To cover with slate.
- To schedule.
- To criticise harshly.
- To set a dog upon (a person).
- To anticipate or strongly expect.
- To nominate, appoint, or designate.
adj
noun
noun
- The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- An edge or border.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
verb
noun
adv
noun
- A type of large roofing slate.
- A queen apple.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
- Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- A queen scallop.
- An excellent woman.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- A female monarch.
verb
adj
prep_phrase
noun
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- The direction of a current of wind.
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
- A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
adj
noun
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
verb
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
adj
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
verb
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move back and forth or sideways
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
adj
noun
- The act of building or putting up or together of something.
- The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
- A penis or clitoris that is erect.
- The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
- Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
- Anything erected or built.
noun
noun
- The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
- A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
- A single house in such a group.
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
- The standing area of a sports stadium.
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
verb
adj
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adv
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
noun
- That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
- The surface, the (bare) skin.
- Surface; body; substance.
verb
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.
adv
verb
- To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- To sustain; to provide support for.
- To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
noun
- A structure that provides support for some other material.
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
verb
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
adj
noun
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
noun
verb
- To build a structure.
- To set (matter) in capital letters.
- To hang; to mount.
- To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard..
- To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
- To house; to shelter; to take in.
- To cause (wild game) to break cover.
- To present, especially in "put up a fight".
- To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
- To provide funds in advance.
- To store away.
- To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
- To place in a high location.
- To make available; to offer.
- To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
noun
- Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
- A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
- In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
verb
noun
- A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
- A column; pillar.
- A sieve.
- A young herring.
- The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
- A strainer or colander for liquids
- A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
- That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
verb
noun
noun
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
- A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
- The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- An inning.
- A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- The structure of a person's body; the human body.
- The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
verb
- Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- To move.
- To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
- To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- Conspire to falsely incriminate a presumably innocent person. See frameup.
- To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
verb
- To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- To sit upon the edge of something.
- To stay in an elevated position.
- To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- To inspect cloth using a perch.
noun
- Acanthopagrus berda
- Kyphosus azureus
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
noun
- A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun.
- A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.
- The parasol mushroom, Macrolepiota procera
- A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.
- Any of various Asian species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Neurothemis.
verb
noun
noun
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
- A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- A floor or storey of a house.
- The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
- A phase.
- The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- An internship.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
verb
- To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- To orchestrate; to carry out.
- To place in position to prepare for use.
- To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
- To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
noun
- The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- Elevation.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- Recruitment.
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
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