scrattle
claut
scart
scrab
rescratch
scratchlike
rit
rat
scrap paper
scram
da capo
create from raw material
racing form
backscratch
create from raw stuff
tip sheet
scramb
scarify
scratch
nick
ripple
scratch made
smithy
bescratch
microscratch
claw
scratch below the surface
skitter
bleeder
slash print
slash dupe
slap print
incise
scrawm
scrabble
go to work
cowl
reforge
desquamate
scratchability
scrape
graunch
nanoscratch
piping
slicing
frosten
scale off
beclaw
chorelike
slicery
scritch
scob
prescratched
stick down
break up
take it from the top
rag
remould
fight
engrave
barken
graze
struggle
switchbladed
scrage
outscrape
lap
tilt
etched
scrub
rear
acrawl
new
hack
grade
clour
slab
scrapple
chew up
tender
break a sweat
notch
chapter
snithy
cutting
be at pains
resculpture
carve up
snithe
take pains
scratchy
machete
detrench
go about
tidy-up
hew out
scratchlike
scratch made
chorelike
prescratched
switchbladed
etched
acrawl
tender
snithy
snithe
scratchy
da capo
new
scrap paper
racing form
tip sheet
microscratch
bleeder
slash print
slash dupe
slap print
rit
scratchability
piping
slicing
slicery
scrage
grade
hack
scrapple
cutting
scrattle
claut
scart
scrab
rescratch
rit
rat
scram
create from raw material
backscratch
create from raw stuff
scramb
scarify
scratch
nick
ripple
smithy
bescratch
claw
scratch below the surface
skitter
incise
scrawm
scrabble
go to work
cowl
reforge
desquamate
scrape
graunch
nanoscratch
frosten
scale off
beclaw
scritch
scob
stick down
break up
take it from the top
rag
remould
fight
engrave
barken
graze
struggle
outscrape
lap
tilt
scrub
rear
hack
clour
slab
chew up
break a sweat
notch
chapter
be at pains
resculpture
carve up
take pains
machete
detrench
go about
tidy-up
hew out
verb
verb
- To scratch or score.
- To kill rats.
- Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.
- To betray a person or party, especially by telling their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in.
- To work as a scab, going against trade union policies.
noun
- Vagina.
- Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
- A scratch or a score.
- A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.
- A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
- A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
- A ration.
- A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
- A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
- A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
- A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
- An informant or snitch.
verb
- To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- To leave in a hurry; to go away.
- To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
noun
verb
verb
verb
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
verb
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
noun
- The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
- A police station or prison.
- A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
verb
- To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- To shape into a series of ripples.
- To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- To propagate like a moving wave.
- To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
- To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
noun
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
- A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
verb
- To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
- To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.
- To cause to have diarrhea.
- To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
- To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
noun
noun
- Synonym of scratch hit
- A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
- A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
- A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
- A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
- Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
verb
verb
- To scrape together
- To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
- To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
- To make a monk of (a person).
noun
- A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
- A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
- A mask that covers the majority of the head.
- A monk.
- A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
- A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
- A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
- A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
verb
verb
noun
- A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- propagation by cuttings
adj
verb
verb
- To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- To dissolve; to part.
- To break or separate into pieces.
- Become disorganised
- Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- be or cause to be overcome with laughter
- To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness.
verb
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- To dance to ragtime music.
- To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- To become tattered.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
noun
- A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- A curtain of various kinds.
- A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- Tattered clothes.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
verb
- To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
- To yield grass for grazing.
- To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
- To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
noun
verb
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To be at an angle.
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A tilt hammer.
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
verb
- To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- To be diligent and penurious
- To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
adj
noun
- One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
- One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant
- Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- One who scrubs.
- One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- A cancellation.
- A worn-out brush.
- One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- Clothing worn while performing surgery.
- Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
verb
- To carve.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To rise up on the hind legs
- To get angry.
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To move; stir.
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- To breed and raise.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
adj
noun
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks or bottom.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
adv
adv
noun
- A naval cadet who has just embarked on training.
- A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method.
- Things that are new.
verb
adj
- Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
- Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
- Recently made, or created.
- Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
- In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
- Recently arrived or appeared.
- Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
- Next; about to begin or recently begun.
- Current or later, as opposed to former.
- Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
- Additional; recently discovered.
- Newborn.
verb
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
noun
- A tool for chopping.
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
noun
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A rating.
- A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- A level of primary and secondary education.
- A gradian.
- An eyeglass prescription.
- The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- The level of the ground.
- A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
verb
- To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To pass from one school grade into the next.
- To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- To organize in grades.
verb
noun
- A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- A very large wave.
- The slack part of a sail.
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
- A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
adj
adj
- hurting
- young and immature
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
verb
- offer or present for acceptance
- propose a payment
- make a tender of; in legal settlements
- make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
verb
- To take to task.
- To put into a chapter.
- To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- To divide into chapters.
noun
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A chapter house
- A bishop's council.
- One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
noun
- The action of the verb to cut.
- A section removed from a larger whole.
- The editing of film or other recordings.
- An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- A newspaper clipping.
- An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
adj
verb
noun
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
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