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noun
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
adj
- Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
- Present; current; extant.
- Very quickly and easily prepared.
- Of the current month.
- Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
adv
noun
- A very short moment of time.
- Correction fluid or correction tape.
- The chaffinch.
- One or more very small, short bursts of light.
- A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.
- A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
- A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.
verb
adj
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
noun
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- lacking foresight or scope
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
verb
adv
noun
- A very short amount of time.
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
verb
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
adj
noun
- A very short space of time; an instant.
- A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
adj
prep_phrase
adj
- Short in duration; brief.
- Operating on a small scale.
- Very young.
- To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
- Younger.
- Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Used to belittle a person.
adv
pron
noun
- One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- A small amount.
- A child; particularly an infant.
- A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big.
- The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
det
adj
noun
- A very short, unspecified length of time.
- The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
- A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
noun
- The smallest portion of time; an instant.
- Weight or importance.
- A fit; a brief tantrum.
- A brief, unspecified amount of time.
- A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
- A petit mal episode; such a spell.
- (As in "X moment") An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.
- An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
- A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
adj
- Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- Stolen.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Extremely fast or with great speed.
- Sexually aroused; randy.
- Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- Feverish.
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- Popular; in demand.
- Easily provoked to anger.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- Fresh; just released.
- Having or giving off a high temperature.
- Characterized by police presence or activity.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier.
- Extremely attracted to.
- Electrically charged.
- Radioactive.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
verb
adv
noun
- a limited period of time
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
verb
prep_phrase
adj
- Short.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
verb
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adj
noun
- A short period of time, particularly a second.
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- Credit, trust.
- The whinchat.
- A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- Ticking.
- A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
verb
noun
- A brief time; an instant.
- Synonym of periwinkle
- The smallest possible amount.
- A subtle allusion.
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
verb
- To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- To close one's eyes.
- To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
prep_phrase
prefix
prefix
noun
noun
noun
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A fixed part of a module.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A while or a long unspecified period of time
verb
- To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
adj
noun
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- An additional helping of food.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A second-class honours degree.
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- Second base.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- The second gear of an engine.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
adj
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
verb
- To climb after a lead climber.
- To assist or support; to back.
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.)
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
- To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
adv
adj
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
- Of water: flowing.
- Burning, flammable, fiery.
- Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- productive; not "dead" or barren
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
verb
noun
- A fast bowler.
- Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
- Quitchgrass.
adv
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