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verb
- take in and retain
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- retain possession of
- retain rights to
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- conform one's action or practice to
- stick to correctly or closely
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- maintain by writing regular records
- supply with room and board
- supply with necessities and support
- fail to spoil or rot
- behave as expected during of holidays or rites
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- have as a supply
- maintain for use and service
- hold and prevent from leaving
- prevent the action or expression of
- prevent (food) from rotting
noun
verb
- To keep back; to retain.
- To book in advance; to make a reservation.
- To keep in store for future or special use.
noun
- A reserve price in an auction.
- Wine held back and aged before being sold.
- A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
- A resist.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
- In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
- A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
- A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
- Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
- A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
verb
noun
noun
verb
- To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
- To make a continuation bet.
- To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
- To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- To make last; to prolong.
- To resume.
- To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
noun
verb
- To conserve.
- To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
- To provide with a husband.
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A prudent or frugal manager.
- The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- A polled tree; a pollard.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
verb
verb
- retain rights to
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- bring into safety
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- accumulate money for future use
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from sins
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- record data on a computer
noun
verb
verb
verb
- maintain or assert
- have an argument about something
- to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
verb
- To reserve.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The ability to persist.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To maintain, or keep in existence.
- To provide for or nourish.
- To encourage or sanction (something).
- To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
- To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
- To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
- To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
- To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
noun
verb
- To persist, to endure.
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- To travel, to proceed.
- To trade, exchange; barter.
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To drive a truck.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To convey by truck.
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
noun
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
verb
verb
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- To insult, to diss.
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
verb
- keep an account of
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- to give an account or representation of in words
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
noun
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a short account of the news
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- grounds
- importance or value
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
- the quality of taking advantage
verb
- To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with.
- To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- To wear.
- To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).
- To have or display (a mark or other feature).
- To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.
- To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).
- To have (a name, title, or designation).
- To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).
- To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.
- To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).
- To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
- To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.
- To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.
- To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.
- To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.
- To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
- To behave or conduct (oneself).
- To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
- To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
- To support or sustain; to hold up.
- To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
- To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- To push, thrust, press.
- To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
- To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
- To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- To warrant, justify the need for.
- To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
- Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
- To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
noun
- The meat of this animal.
- A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).
- A portable punching machine.
- An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
- Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- The fifteenth Lenormand card.
- A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
adj
adj
- Preserving; rescuing.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- Relating to making a saving.
- Making reservation or exception.
noun
- The action of the verb to save.
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
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verb
noun
- A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
- A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
- A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
- A supply or source of something.
- A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
- A place where anything is kept in store.
verb
verb
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
- To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- To mend, to repair.
- To prepare (food or drink).
- To map a (point or subset) to itself.
noun
- fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A repair or corrective action.
- A determination of location.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
verb
- keep to
- to travel behind, go after, come after
- be later in time
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- travel along a certain course
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- come after in time, as a result
- behave in accordance or in agreement with
- be next
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- to bring something about at a later time than
- imitate in behavior; take as a model
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- be the successor (of)
- perform an accompaniment to
- keep informed
- to be the product or result
- accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
- adhere to or practice
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- keep under surveillance
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- grasp the meaning
- to subscribe to someone's updates on social media
- to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media
verb
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