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spanking
step on it
have time on one's side
lose no time
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keen-witted
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adj
- Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
- Mentally quick and resourceful.
- Skilled at achieving what one wants, especially via unusual methods.
- Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.
- Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
- Possessing magical abilities.
- Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
- Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.
verb
- To make (something) move quickly
- To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
- To close as if with a zip fastener.
- To subject to the convolution mapping function.
- To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
- To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
- To travel on a zipline.
- To close with a zip fastener.
noun
- The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
- An ounce of marijuana.
- Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”)
- Zero; nothing.
- A zip fastener.
- Energy; vigor; vim.
- A trip on a zipline.
- A zip file.
intj
verb
- To do things quickly.
- To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
- Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
- To cause to be done quickly.
- To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
- To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
noun
adj
intj
- Suggesting something moving quickly
- Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase
- Representing a humming sound
noun
- A humming noise from something moving very fast.
- A big increase.
- A quick ascent.
- An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
- A video teleconferencing call.
verb
adj
noun
- Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.
- A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.
- A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.
- A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.
- The main cylinder of a carding-machine.
- Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.
verb
- To go in a quick or sudden manner.
- To jump onto, or over
- To jump on one foot.
- To be in state of energetic activity.
- To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
- To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
- To jump a short distance.
- To dance.
- To gather hops.
- To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
noun
- A short jump.
- A jump on one leg.
- Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
- The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
- A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
- The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
- The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
- The plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers beer or ale is brewed.
verb
- To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- To steal.
- To take (a victory) at the last moment.
- To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- To grasp and remove quickly.
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
- To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- To meet with someone.
- To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
- To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- To connect two or more things.
- To post a hyperlink to.
noun
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- The connection between buses or systems.
- a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- An introductory cue.
- Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- an individual person or element in a system
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prep_phrase
verb
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
prep_phrase
verb
- To think or write in terms of tropes.
- To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
- To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
- To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
- To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
noun
- Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
- A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
- A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
- An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
- A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
- A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
- Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
- A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
- A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
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adj
adv
verb
adj
- 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
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
noun
verb
- To look about for; to look over quickly.
- To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- To read with an electronic device.
- To conform to a metrical structure.
- To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
noun
abbrev
verb
- To do something quickly, in a slipshod, or unprofessional manner.
- To celebrate (a fellow printing or newspaper industry worker) to mark their completion of an apprenticeship or their retirement by (formerly) hitting metal furniture in the printing room or (more recently) hitting one's desk in the newsroom.
- To eject.
noun
verb
- To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- To conduct oneself; act
- To perform the kip maneuver.
- To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
noun
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- A very untidy house or room.
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
- A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
verb
- To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- To interrupt an activity and wait.
noun
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
verb
- To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
- To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
- To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
- To go fast.
- To exceed the speed limit.
- To increase the rate at which something occurs.
intj
noun
- The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
- The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open (shutter speed).
- The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.
- A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
- Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.
- The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
- The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
- Personal preference.
noun
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Something designed to fool or swindle.
- A term of abuse.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- A customer or client of a prostitute.
- A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
adj
verb
adj
intj
verb
- To run quickly or for a short distance.
- To leave or depart.
- To complete hastily.
- To ruin; to destroy.
- To dishearten; to sadden.
- To sprinkle; to splatter.
- To destroy by striking (against).
- To draw or write quickly; jot.
- To throw violently.
noun
- Violent strike; a whack.
- The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
- A rushing or violent onset.
- A short run, flight.
- Ostentatious vigor.
- The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A slight admixture.
- A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- A dashboard.
- A hyphen or minus sign.
intj
verb
- To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- To dress someone warmly.
- To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- To hurry.
- To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
- To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
noun
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
- A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- A large amount, especially of money.
- A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
- A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
- A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
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