intort
bewind
wintle
crankle
switch
twine
wimble
waver
meanderingly
dub
warple
pirl
intorsion
squiggle
blow over
gyre
skein
bowl
aeolian
spool
veer
rotate
overwind
stream
flailing
windily
ruffle
reel
flap
dingbat
enlace
lace
rock
intertwine
entwine
blizzard
flitter
boke
interlace
twist
rebound
outgush
luff up
wind
windwise
wriggle
flurry
weathercock
boing
wind up
benthically
whiffle
sleid
underwind
nutate
cut wind
jib
reflect
reverberate
swash someone's buckle
two-throw
turbinate
fart out
butt
bogue
bunt
enwind
buffet
backfall
shag
elbow
tremble
convolute
attenuative
meander
blowy
skew
convolve
flick
twist someone's arm
luff
underhand
hook
strike
wanton
wrench
extrovert
swirl
bending
haul
go round
weight
wrest
aeolian
two-throw
attenuative
blowy
meanderingly
windily
windwise
benthically
dub
intorsion
flailing
dingbat
buffet
backfall
whiffle
strike
bending
intort
bewind
wintle
crankle
switch
twine
wimble
waver
warple
pirl
squiggle
blow over
gyre
skein
bowl
spool
veer
rotate
overwind
stream
ruffle
reel
flap
enlace
lace
rock
intertwine
entwine
blizzard
flitter
boke
interlace
twist
rebound
outgush
luff up
wind
wriggle
flurry
weathercock
boing
wind up
whiffle
sleid
underwind
nutate
cut wind
jib
reflect
reverberate
swash someone's buckle
turbinate
fart out
butt
bogue
bunt
enwind
shag
elbow
tremble
convolute
meander
skew
convolve
flick
twist someone's arm
luff
underhand
hook
strike
wanton
wrench
extrovert
swirl
haul
go round
weight
wrest
verb
- To be swung or whisked.
- To trim.
- To change places, tasks, etc.
- To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- To exchange.
- To swing or whisk.
- To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To whip or hit with a switch.
- To shift to another circuit.
noun
- A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- Synonym of rute.
- A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- A change or exchange.
- One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
adj
verb
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- To weave together.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
noun
verb
- To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
- To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
- To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
- To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
- To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
- To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
noun
noun
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A pool or puddle.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
verb
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To do something badly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
- A winning streak.
- The membrane of a fish ovary.
- A web, a weave, a tangle.
- A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
- A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
verb
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
noun
- A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- The action of bowling a ball.
- An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- The game of bowls.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- The round hollow part of anything.
verb
- To wind on a spool or spools.
- To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
noun
- One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
verb
- To spin, turn, or revolve.
- To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
- To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
- To spin, turn, or revolve something.
- To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
- To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
- To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
adj
verb
- To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
- To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
- To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
- To discharge in a stream.
noun
- All moving waters.
- A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- A live stream.
- A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
- A division of a school year by perceived ability.
- A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
- Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
verb
- To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
noun
verb
- wind onto or off a reel
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
noun
- a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- music composed for dancing a reel
- winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
- an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
noun
- Anything that can be thrown or swung with force against something else.
- A small device or gadget, the correct term for which is forgotten or unknown.
- An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.
- A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.
- A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution.
- A silly, crazy or stupid person.
verb
- To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
- To move gently back and forth.
- To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
- To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
- To sway one's body as a stim.
- To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
- to make love to or have sex with.
- To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
- To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
- To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
- To cause to shake or sway violently.
- To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
- To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
- to be cool.
noun
- An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
- Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
- A mistake.
- Synonym of stone.
- The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
- A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
- A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
- Distaff.
- The flax or wool on a distaff.
- A large hill or island having no vegetation.
- A basketball.
- An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
- A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
- A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
- A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
- Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
- An Afrikaner.
- An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
- A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
- The striped bass.
- A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
- A lump or cube of ice.
- The huss or rock salmon.
- A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
verb
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
noun
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
verb
- To bound or spring back from a force.
- To send back; to reverberate.
- To give back an echo.
- To jump up or get back up again.
noun
- A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- An effort to recover from a setback.
- The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
- A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship.
- An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
- The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
verb
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
noun
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
verb
noun
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
- A light, brief snowfall.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- Any sudden activity; a stir.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
verb
- To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- To end up; to arrive or result.
- To upset; to anger or distress.
- To increase (in some aspect).
- To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- To excite.
- To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
verb
- To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
- To blow a short gust.
- To waste time.
- To waffle, talk aimlessly.
- To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
- To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
- To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
- To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
- To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
noun
verb
- To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
- To stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse).
- To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity.
noun
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- Crystal meth.
- The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
verb
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
noun
- thick end of the handle
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
verb
noun
- (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball or softball lightly by holding the bat in a stationary position rather than swinging it
- disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
- similar to Tilletia caries
- fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
noun
- A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
- A small low stool; a hassock.
- The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
- A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
verb
verb
- To shake, wiggle around.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To perform the dance called the shag.
- To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To masturbate.
noun
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts.
- A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
- A casual sexual partner.
- Friend; mate; buddy.
- A swing dance.
verb
- To nudge, jostle or push.
- To make someone quit or lose their job so that someone else can get it.
- To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
noun
- The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
- Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
- Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
- A hit with the elbow.
- Two nearby crossings of a rope.
verb
noun
- One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- Perplexity.
- One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
- Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
- A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
- A tortuous or winding journey.
verb
- To hurl or throw.
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
adv
noun
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- The coping of a gable.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
adj
verb
- To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
- To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.
noun
- A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
- A flitch.
- A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
- A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
- The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
- A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
- A powerful underarm volley shot.
verb
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
noun
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
verb
- To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
- To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
adj
- Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
- Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
noun
verb
- To pull or twist violently.
- To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
- To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
- To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
- To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
noun
- In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
- An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
verb
- Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- To haul ass (“go fast”).
- To drag, to pull, to tug.
- Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- To draw or pull something heavy.
noun
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
verb
- To physically swirl or rotate.
- To rotate, to move in a circle.
- To circumvent or to outmanoeuvre someone.
- To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
- To go around the side of sth., to bypass something.
- To go to another person's home or a public event.
- To circulate, to move aimlessly but ghostly (threateningly and invisibly).
- To evade sth.
- To pass around, to circulate sth.
- To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification)
verb
- To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- To load, burden or oppress someone.
- To bias something; to slant.
- To assign weights to individual statistics.
- To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
noun
- viscosity rating.
- An object used to make something heavier.
- Pressure; burden.
- Importance or influence.
- An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
- The smallest cardinality of a base.
- A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
- The thickness and opacity of paint.
- Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- Weight class
- Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- The illusion of mass.
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