extent
circumference
perimeter
depthwise
widthwise
length
diameterwise
lift
side
solidity
breadthwise
projecting
projected
sticking out
jutting
adradial
outreach
protruding
sticking
diffuseness
relieved
sustain
trailer
underkeep
keep up
prolong
abradial
stretched
edge
girth
extreme
stretch
breadth
expanse
meco-
clearance
clear
segment
isovist
widthways
lengthways
dispersion
aquiclude
distribution
reach
lengthwise
crosswise
paracotylar
height
distance
end lap
region
part
empty space
radial
superaligned
place
plumb
flare
position
sublaterodorsal
full
downward
front
down
equivolume
isometric
stitch
fullness
grade
ground level
footprint
block
longwise
longitudinally
longways
lap
radiad
surface area
way
sheet
voidage
longimetry
infinite
superfices
space
size
presence
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sticking out
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sticking
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abradial
stretched
widthwise
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lengthways
lengthwise
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paracotylar
radial
superaligned
sublaterodorsal
downward
down
breadthwise
isometric
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equivolume
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diameterwise
breadthwise
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lengthways
lengthwise
longwise
longitudinally
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radiad
extent
circumference
perimeter
length
lift
side
solidity
outreach
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trailer
underkeep
edge
girth
extreme
stretch
breadth
expanse
clearance
clear
segment
isovist
dispersion
aquiclude
distribution
reach
height
distance
end lap
region
part
empty space
place
flare
position
full
front
equivolume
stitch
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ground level
footprint
block
lap
surface area
way
sheet
voidage
longimetry
infinite
superfices
space
size
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sustain
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plumb
noun
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- duration.
- A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- Total extent.
noun
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- A thief.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- An act of lifting or raising.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- Air.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- An improvement in mood.
- The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
verb
- To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To arrest (a person).
- To steal.
- to cause to move upwards.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To raise or rise.
- To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
noun
- an extended outer surface of an object
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- one of two or more contesting groups
- either the left or right half of a body
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- a family line of descent
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- an elevated geological formation
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
verb
adj
noun
- Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
- A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
- A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
- The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
- The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.
- A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
- A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
- An unpowered wheeled vehicle, not a caravan or camper, that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc, that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.
- Someone who or something that trails.
verb
noun
- the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
- the boundary of a surface
- a line determining the limits of an area
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
- a slight competitive advantage
verb
noun
- The distance measured around an object.
- One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
- A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
- The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
- The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
- A small horizontal brace or girder.
verb
noun
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
adj
verb
- occupy a large, elongated area
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- lie down comfortably
- pull in opposite directions
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- extend one's body or limbs
noun
- The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.
- A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
- A piece of fabric of standard width.
- The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.
- Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
prefix
noun
- Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
- A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
adj
- Free of obstacles.
- Good, the best.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Without clouds.
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- Transparent in colour.
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Better than, superior to.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without a thickening ingredient.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
adv
- Not near something or touching it.
- All the way; entirely.
- Free (or separate) from others.
- In a clear manner; plainly.
verb
- To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- To pass without interference; to miss.
- To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- To exceed a stated mark.
- To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- To obtain a clearance.
- To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- To earn a profit of; to net.
- To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
noun
- A length of some object.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
- One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- An Ethernet bus.
- Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
verb
noun
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
- the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
noun
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
verb
- To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To strike or touch.
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
noun
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- The distance from the base of something to the top.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- The highest point or maximum degree.
- A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- The amplitude of a sine function
- A high point.
- An area of land at the top of a cliff.
noun
- the extended spatial location of something
- a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
- a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
- a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
noun
- the extended spatial location of something
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- a portion of a natural object
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
- go one's own way; move apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
- force, take, or pull apart
adv
noun
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- an abstract mental location
- a general vicinity
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a particular situation
- where you live at a particular time
- a job in an organization
- proper or designated social situation
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- the passage that is being read
- proper or appropriate position or location
- a public square with room for pedestrians
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a blank area
verb
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- place somebody in a particular situation or location
- assign a rank or rating to
- assign a location to
- to arrange for
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- assign to (a job or a home)
- locate
- estimate
- identify the location or place of
- make an investment
- assign to a station
- finish second or better in a horse or dog race
- sing a note with the correct pitch
noun
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- Bell-bottom trousers.
- The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- A sudden bright light.
verb
- To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
- To open outward in shape.
- To blaze brightly.
- To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- To suddenly happen or intensify.
- To suddenly erupt in anger.
- To cause inflammation; to inflame.
noun
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a job in an organization
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- the appropriate or customary location
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- a rationalized mental attitude
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
verb
noun
- Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
- The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
- An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
adj
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
- Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
- Plump, round.
- Having its entire face illuminated.
- Having depth and body; rich.
- Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
- Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
- Replete, abounding with.
- Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
- Drunk, intoxicated.
- Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
- Filled with emotions.
- Total, entire.
verb
noun
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- The beginning.
- A field of activity.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
adj
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- becoming progressively lower
- being put out in a game of baseball
- understood perfectly
- lower than previously
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- filled with melancholy and despondency
noun
- soft fine feathers
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
verb
- drink down entirely
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come or go down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
adv
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- from an earlier time
- to a lower intensity
- in an inactive or inoperative state
adj
adj
- Taking place at constant volume because of being confined by rigid boundaries.
- Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle remains the same. See also: Wikipedia:isometric exercise
- Antonyms include tonic movements auxotonic and isotonic which are divided into concentric and eccentric.
- Of, or being a geometric system of three equal axes lying at right angles to each other (especially in crystallography).
- Of, or exhibiting equality in dimensions.
noun
noun
- Any space passed over; distance.
- An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.
- An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
- A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
- A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
- The space between two double furrows.
- A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
- A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
- Any least part of a fabric or clothing.
- A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
verb
- To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
- To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
- To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
- To form land into ridges.
- To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
- To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
- To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
noun
noun
- the height of the ground on which something stands
- a body of students who are taught together
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- the gradient of a slope or road or other surface
- one-hundredth of a right angle
- a degree of ablaut
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
verb
noun
- The surface space occupied by a structure.
- A polygon representing the shape of an item.
- The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
- Availability of a satellite from the ground.
- Profession or lifestyle.
- The audit trail left by a crashed program.
- Space required by a piece of equipment.
- The ecological impact of a human activity, machine, etc.
- The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
- A company's geographic market presence.
noun
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- the property of distance in general
- how something is done or how it happens
- to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
- a line leading to a place or point
- the condition of things generally
- a course of conduct
- any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
- a journey or passage
- space for movement
- doing as one pleases or chooses
- a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'
- a portion of something divided into shares
adv
noun
- any broad thin expanse or surface
- paper used for writing or printing
- bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
verb
noun
- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
- an area reserved for some particular purpose
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
- the interval between two times
- a blank area
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
verb
noun
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
- A number of edges in a graph.
- Wallpaper paste.
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
verb
- To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
- To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- To take a greater size; to increase in size.
- To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
noun
- The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
- Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
- A quality that sets an individual out from others; a quality that makes them noticed and/or admired even if they are not speaking or performing.
- A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with their audience.
- The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
- Synonym of room tone
- The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts.
- A company's business activity in a particular market.
verb
English words for 'the distance or area or volume over which something extends'
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