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ball
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lodge in
occupy
stay
reside
habitableness
figgle
lead
habitability
scraffle
tenure
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repose
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adjoin
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eke out
go to grass
live one's best life
settle
sitting pretty
joie de vivre
retired
crust
wanton
worky
do business
provide
make a go of
retrench
inhabitable
homeful
penuriousness
live like a king
domesticated
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sleep in
bury
hire
live
rusticate
see out
professional
live a little
lifemate
call it a day
bachelorly
trade
vital
hobbyism
muddle along
commendatary
fun-loving
see the day
swing
take
lifeward
end one's life
embark
vegetate
venturer
outlive
fructuary
make a living
to have and to hold
unretire
homepreneur
get in on the act
hearth
hang out
fleshpottery
get out
retirement
early retirement pensioner
make up
homesitter
tighten one's belt
alive
pedanticize
populate
built-in
homeowning
door to door
lyme
in perpetuity
nonagenarian
pursue
throw oneself into
keep the pot boiling
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door to door
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habitability
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verb
- To have dealings or business.
- To trade professionally (followed by in).
- To handle, to manage, to cope.
- To be concerned with.
- To pitch.
- To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- To conduct oneself, to behave.
- deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
noun
- A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- Male genitalia.
- A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- A situation, occasion, or event.
- An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
adj
verb
noun
- round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- an object with a spherical shape
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a spherical object used as a plaything
- a compact mass
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
verb
- To live.
- To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
- To inspire (scripture).
- To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
- To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
- To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
- To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
- To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- To whisper quietly.
- To give an impression of, to exude.
- To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
- To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
- To draw something into the lungs.
- To exchange gases with the environment.
- To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
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.
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
adv
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.
verb
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- 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 be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
noun
- 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.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- 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 roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- 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.)
adj
suffix
verb
- To become married, or a householder.
- To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- To silence, especially by force.
- To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- To become compact due to sinking.
- To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- To be established in a profession or in employment.
- To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
- To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- To pay (a bill).
- To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.)
- To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
noun
- A living.
- An outer layer composed of pastry
- The top or bottom slice of a loaf of bread; The end piece of a loaf; The heel.
- The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- The outermost layer of any terrestrial planet.
- Nerve, gall.
- The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
- The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
- The bread-like base of a pizza.
- A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
verb
verb
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present.
- To make possible or attainable.
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
- To act to prepare for something.
verb
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
- To outlive.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
- To score a goal.
- To place in the ground.
- To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- To put an end to; to abandon.
- To kill or murder.
noun
verb
- To accept employment.
- To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- To accomplish by paying for services.
- To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
noun
verb
- To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
- To be alive; to have life.
- To cope.
- To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
- To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- To pass life in a specified manner.
- To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
adv
adj
- Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
- Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
- Having life; that is alive.
- Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
- Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- Still in active play.
- Being in a state of ignition; burning.
- Imparting power; having motion.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
- Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
- Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- In person.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- Taken from a living animal.
- Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
- Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
adj
- engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
- of or relating to or suitable as a profession
- characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
- of or relating to a profession
noun
- a person engaged in one of the learned professions
- an athlete who plays for pay
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
adj
verb
- To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- To recommend and get recommendations.
- To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- To engage in trade.
- To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- To give (something) in exchange (for).
noun
- The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- A particular instance of buying or selling.
- Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
adj
adj
- Containing life; living.
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Very important.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Relating to, or characteristic of life.
verb
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- influence decisively
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- have a certain musical rhythm
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
verb
- To receive into some relationship.
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
phrase
noun
- Home or family life.
- A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
- The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
- The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
- A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
- A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
- A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
noun
verb
- To spend free time out of the house.
- To become known.
- To leave a vehicle such as a car. (Note: for public transport, get off is more common.)
- To help (someone) leave.
- To say with difficulty.
- To remove or eliminate (dirt or stains).
- To come out of a situation; to escape a fate.
- To publish or make available; to disseminate.
- To take (something) from its container or storage place, so as to use or display it.
- To be released, especially from hospital or prison.
- To remove one's money from an investment; to end an investment.
- To leave or escape.
intj
verb
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
- To constitute the components of a whole.
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To apply cosmetics.
- To compensate (for).
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- To constitute, to compose.
- To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
prep_phrase
verb
- To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).
- To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
- To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
- To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
- To act as a legal prosecutor.
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whirlpool bath
concert
floating
no way!
scary
runner
flunky
broken.
brittle
exhaustion
to rub
swelling