reset
pitch
put to work
outgo
unset
setous
set
endizen
exercise
exert
turn
inset
repose
redress
step
prescribed
spread
sets
settle on
styled
fixate
salvage
determine
input
laid
so as to
remodify
upend
post
inclavated
staw
deposit
dedicate
set forward
ready, set, go
arrange
prepose
forelock
let her rip
set theoretically
setuliform
buskle
carve
sethood
flag
misset
precondition
well-order
setule
lau
lay
lodge
snod up
graith
fettle
prefigurate
defaultable
lay about
buckle to
counterprogramme
petrify
ossify
rigidify
engraft
achaetous
Zermelo set theory
consign
lay up
config
reinsert
set down
redetermine
start
unscramble
slap
turn back
lay down the marker
sericitize
dealign
corrigible
skill
putty
stell
stick
carry out
righten
concert
right
appropriated
setulate
plonk
nought
remedy
preset
remediate
rectify
amend
setous
prescribed
styled
set
laid
inclavated
setuliform
misset
defaultable
achaetous
corrigible
appropriated
setulate
preset
set theoretically
set
sets
sethood
setule
Zermelo set theory
config
reset
pitch
put to work
outgo
unset
set
endizen
exercise
exert
turn
inset
repose
redress
step
spread
settle on
fixate
salvage
determine
input
remodify
upend
post
staw
deposit
dedicate
set forward
arrange
prepose
forelock
let her rip
buskle
carve
flag
precondition
well-order
lau
lay
lodge
snod up
graith
fettle
prefigurate
lay about
buckle to
counterprogramme
petrify
ossify
rigidify
engraft
consign
lay up
reinsert
set down
redetermine
start
unscramble
slap
turn back
lay down the marker
sericitize
dealign
skill
putty
stell
stick
carry out
righten
concert
right
plonk
nought
remedy
remediate
rectify
amend
verb
- To set or fix.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
adj
verb
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- Set theory.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
verb
verb
- put to use
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- give a workout to
- do physical exercise
- learn by repetition
noun
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- the act of using
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
verb
- alter the functioning or setting of
- to change orientation or direction
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- undergo a change or development
- cause to move around or rotate
- change to the contrary
- pass to the other side of
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- move around an axis or a center
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- to send or let go
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- change color
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- accomplish by rotating
- get by buying and selling
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- direct at someone
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- go sour or spoil
- become officially one year older
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- an unforeseen development
- a movement in a new direction
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
verb
- To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
- To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- To dress again.
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
noun
- A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
- The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
verb
- To set, as the foot.
- To dance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
noun
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- A small space or distance.
- A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A stepchild.
- A stepsibling.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
verb
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
- To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
noun
- The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- The difference between bidding and asking price.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- The act of spreading.
- An expanse of land.
- Something that has been spread.
- A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- A numerical difference.
- The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
noun
verb
verb
- to put to use.
- to rescue.
- To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
- To perform summary execution.
noun
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
verb
- To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
- To resolve (to do something); to establish a fixed intention; to cause (something) to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
- To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
- To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
- To set the boundaries or limits of.
- To define or limit by adding a differentia.
- To bring to an end; to finish.
- To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
verb
noun
phrase
verb
verb
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- To pay down (the stake).
- To pay (a blind).
- To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
adv
- Sent via the postal service.
- With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
noun
- A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A pole in a battery.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death).
- A goalpost.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- A stud; a two-by-four.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- Post-production.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
prep
adj
verb
- To lay down; to place; to put.
- To put money or funds into an account.
- To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
- To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
- To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
noun
- Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- Anything left behind on a surface.
- A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
- That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another.
- A place of deposit; a depository.
- Money placed in an account.
- A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
verb
- To set apart for a special use
- To open (a building, for example) to public use.
- To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate.
- To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action
- To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or affection.
- To show to the public for the first time
noun
phrase
verb
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
- To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
noun
verb
- To set a program variable to true.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To signal (an event).
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- To penalize for an infraction.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- To pave with flagstones.
- To weaken, become feeble.
- To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
noun
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- The game of capture the flag.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.
- In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- A signal flag.
- A slice of turf; a sod.
noun
verb
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
adj
verb
- To firmly fix in a specified position.
- To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- To drive (an animal) to covert.
- To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- To stay in any place or shelter.
- To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
noun
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- A local chapter of a trade union.
- A den or cave.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
verb
- To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
- To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
- To be upset or in a bad mood.
- In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
noun
verb
verb
adj
verb
verb
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To flinch or draw back.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
- To place, to put carelessly.
- To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).
- To play slap bass on (an instrument).
- To be excellent.
- To cause something to strike soundly.
- To strike soundly against something.
- To give a slap to.
noun
- The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.
- An eye-catching sticker used in street art.
- Makeup; cosmetics.
- A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
- A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.
adv
verb
verb
verb
- To set apart; separate.
- To know; to understand.
- To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
- To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
- To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
adj
noun
verb
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
adj
noun
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
verb
- To set upright.
- To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
- To return to normal upright position.
- To correct.
adv
- In a correct manner.
- According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
- Immediately, directly.
- On the right side.
- Towards the right side.
- Exactly, precisely.
- Very, extremely, quite.
intj
- I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion).
- Yes, that is correct; I agree.
- Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
- Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof.
- Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
noun
- The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
- The right side or direction.
- A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
- That which complies with justice, law or reason.
- The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
- A legal, just or moral entitlement.
- The right hand or fist.
adj
- Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
- Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
- Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true.
- Healthy, sane, competent.
- Real; veritable (used emphatically).
- Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
- Designed to be placed or worn outward.
- Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
- Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
- Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
- All right; not requiring assistance.
adj
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