fill-in
infill
spackle
wedge
gapful
midgap
gap
minigap
lacune
gapingly
gape
opening
stopgap
deepen
gapless
figure-hugging
multigapped
close
squeeze
gapping
listel
hug
excursive
occupy
porous
squidge
narrow
multispanning
bottleneck
slit
force
stow
repletive
rack
spheno-
implete
clutter up
chasmed
shim
clutter
edge in
straitened
breach
admarginal
jam-pack
distance
length
crossclamp
circummarginal
nippit
skinny
scruze
gulf
crowd together
stuff
buffer
plug
stop up
gapped
sublacunar
wedgewise
secure
constriction
coarctation
tighten up
tighten
hang tight
stank
crowd
overcloy
subgap
lacunose
gaplike
gash
dotted
against the collar
produce
narrowable
dashed
dense
thicketful
spread out
thick
renarrow
punch
narrowly
dovetail
gapful
stopgap
gapless
figure-hugging
multigapped
excursive
porous
multispanning
repletive
chasmed
straitened
admarginal
circummarginal
nippit
skinny
gapped
sublacunar
subgap
lacunose
gaplike
dotted
narrowable
dashed
spread out
gapingly
wedgewise
narrowly
fill-in
midgap
minigap
lacune
opening
infill
gapping
listel
squidge
slit
gapful
shim
distance
length
gulf
buffer
constriction
coarctation
stopgap
dense
thicketful
thick
punch
infill
spackle
wedge
gap
gape
deepen
close
squeeze
hug
occupy
narrow
bottleneck
slit
force
stow
rack
implete
clutter up
clutter
edge in
breach
jam-pack
crossclamp
scruze
crowd together
stuff
plug
stop up
secure
tighten up
tighten
hang tight
stank
crowd
overcloy
gash
produce
renarrow
dovetail
noun
- Something added to fill a gap.
- A substitution.
- An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
verb
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
noun
verb
- To check the size of a gap.
- To leave suddenly.
- To notch, as a sword or knife.
- To make an opening in; to breach.
noun
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- The regions between the outfielders.
- A vacant space or time.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
noun
verb
- To open wide; to display a gap.
- To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
- To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
- To stare in wonder.
- To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
noun
noun
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- The initial period when a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- A time available in a schedule.
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- The first few moves in a game.
adj
adj
noun
- That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
verb
adj
adj
verb
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- 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 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.
adj
- 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.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
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.
verb
- To fit into a tight place.
- To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
noun
- The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- An instance of squeezing.
- A close or tight fit.
- The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- A difficult position.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A romantic partner.
- A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
verb
- To fill space.
- To fill.
- To live or reside in.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- To hold the attention of.
- To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
verb
- To get narrower.
- To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
adj
- Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
noun
verb
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- move with force
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- do forcibly; exert force
- take by force
noun
- a powerful effect or influence
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- a unit that is part of some military service
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
verb
- stretch to the limits
- go at a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- run before a gale
- fly in high wind
- draw off from the lees
- torment emotionally or mentally
- work on a rack
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- torture on the rack
noun
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
verb
noun
- A wedge.
- A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
verb
adj
adj
adj
- tight-fitting
- thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)
- Having reduced fat or calories.
noun
- The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
- A low-fat serving of coffee.
- A state of nakedness; nudity.
- A skinny being.
verb
verb
noun
- A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
verb
verb
- To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- To fill with seasoning.
- To break; to destroy.
- To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- To sate.
- To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
noun
- Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Unspecified things or matters.
- A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
noun
- A gap that isolates or separates two things.
- The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
- A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
- An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
- A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
- A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
- A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
- A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
- A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
- Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
- A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
- The chief boatswain's mate.
- A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
verb
verb
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
- persist in working hard
- deliver a quick blow to
- make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
- replace the center of a coin with a baser metal
- insert a plug into
- insert as a plug
noun
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- blatant or sensational promotion
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
- an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
- an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
- an old or over-worked horse
adj
adj
verb
- To pack in tightly.
- To surround or guard.
- To stumble or lurch.
- To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- To trample.
- To stink; to smell bad.
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- To cause to smell bad.
- simple past tense of stink
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
adj
noun
adj
prep_phrase
verb
- To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
- To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
- To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
noun
noun
adj
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Obscure, or difficult to understand.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
- Having relatively high density.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition.
noun
adv
adj
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- Stupid.
- Friendly or intimate.
- Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Abounding in number.
verb
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A town in Wyoming
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Cassiopeia (constellation)
to hit below the belt
candy stick
to inundate
wants
dangerous weapon
Chinese characters
shallow bowl
Karelian
Extremely compact
A funeral director
Delicate
to trip up
lunge
stem tea
Not noble
carbon dioxide
bazaar
unisex
to sneer at
office desk
Mistaken
showing disapproval
strange tree
A province of the Philippines
lunatic
self-assured
several people
weir
to glare
pointer
invisible.
autumn
gotcha
rudeness
to shrink
embarrassing
void
sweet
friendly
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