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- (dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
- A cross-course.
- A hairpin bend.
- (American football) A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
- A cross between a hybrid species and one of the original parent species.
- A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.
- Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
- An "X"-shaped railroad crossing sign.
- (derogatory, offensive) A Catholic.
- A species resulting from such a crossback.
- The measurement from the outer edge of one shoulder blade to the outer edge of the other.
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- walk heavily
- (transitive) To stamp (one’s foot or feet).
- (transitive, gaming) To completely defeat or overwhelm an enemy, to win by a large lead over someone
- (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- (ambitransitive) To trample heavily.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
noun
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- Stepping (style of dance)
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- (machines) 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.
- (nautical) 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.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- 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.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- 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 running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
verb
- To dance.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) 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.
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noun
- (dance) A dance step pattern with six steps.
- (music) A musical rhythm twice as fast as the overall beat, with this pattern of note lengths: 3/16 3/16 1/4 3/16 3/16.
- (military) A fast marching pace of 180 steps per minute, 36 inches in length for the Marine Corps and Navy, 30 inches in length for the Army. It is not really double the speed of quick time as quick time is 112-120 steps per minute.
- A rate of pay that is twice the normal rate (for reasons such as working on a holiday or working hazardous duty).
- a doubled wage (for working overtime)
- a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog
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- (dance) A dance move consisting of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a joining or uniting step with the other foot.
- (dance) A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps.
- a ballroom dance in duple meter; marked by sliding steps
- (music) A piece of music for this dance.
adj
noun
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- a fabric with long coarse nap
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
verb
- dance the shag
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
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- A fancy dance step executed by jumping and striking the legs together.
- (tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.
- A certain fancy figure in skating.
- A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.
- An old style of dressing men's side hair in a form resembling a pigeon's wings; or a wig of similar shape.
noun
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
verb
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- dance a clog dance
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- coalesce or unite in a mass
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
noun
- a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot
- an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon
- (dance) A dance style in which the dancer appears to be moving in a low gravity environment.
- (dance) A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide.
- (astronautics) An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot by an astronaut.
- (astronautics, by extension) Activity on the Moon, outside any moonbase, exposed to space, by an astronaut
verb
- (intransitive) To walk on the surface of the Moon.
- (intransitive, dance) To perform the moonwalk.
- (intransitive) To walk in leaps, like on the Moon or on other low gravity surfaces.
- (intransitive) To walk in a manner that is similar to the moonwalk dance style; to move while sliding backwards as though the feet move as if one was walking forwards.
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noun
- (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
- A short written or spoken expression.
- (grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.
- a short musical passage
- an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
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- A certain move in tap dance.
- (film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
- (differential geometry) The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
- (historical) A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
- (category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
- The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
- (finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
- (category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)
- (sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops)
- a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back
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- A hiking technique for managing loose soil where the hiker first aggressively kicks the ground, digging a foothold, before shifting weight onto the foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the dancer first kicks a foot in the air in front of the opposite leg (often while bending the knee slightly on that leg) and then puts the foot down shifting balance on to it.
noun
- (more specifically) A dancer in a step show.
- A dancer.
- (slang) A foot.
- Anything that moves or advances in steps.
- A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
- A type of exercise machine.
- (furry fandom) The feet of anthropomorphic animals, especially paws.
- A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
- A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
- (colloquial, especially in the plural) A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.
- a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting
- a professional dancer
- a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps
noun
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
verb
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
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- A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
- (music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
- (music) A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
- (music) A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
- a stately court dance in the 17th century
- a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
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- (performing arts) A stage performance or striptease in which a female entertainer disrobes while dancing with large hand-held fans that are alternately used to conceal and provide glimpses of her erogenous body regions.
- (idiomatic, figurative, by extension) The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.
- (performing arts) A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans.
- a solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness
noun
- (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
- A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
- (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
- (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
- A brisk journey or progression.
- Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”).
- A toddler.
- a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
- a slow pace of running
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
- (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
- run at a moderately swift pace
- ride at a trot
- cause to trot
noun
- A kind of Provençal dance.
- A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria).
- The music for this dance.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
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- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
verb
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
- tremble or shake
- dance a shimmy
noun
- A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
- (formal) A prom (dance).
- A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
- A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
- a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
- a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance
- a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle
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- (dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
- A cross-course.
- A hairpin bend.
- (American football) A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
- A cross between a hybrid species and one of the original parent species.
- A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.
- Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
- An "X"-shaped railroad crossing sign.
- (derogatory, offensive) A Catholic.
- A species resulting from such a crossback.
- The measurement from the outer edge of one shoulder blade to the outer edge of the other.
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noun
verb
- walk heavily
- (transitive) To stamp (one’s foot or feet).
- (transitive, gaming) To completely defeat or overwhelm an enemy, to win by a large lead over someone
- (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- (ambitransitive) To trample heavily.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
noun
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- Stepping (style of dance)
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- (machines) 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.
- (nautical) 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.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- 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.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- 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 running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
verb
- To dance.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) 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.
noun
- (dance) A dance step pattern with six steps.
- (music) A musical rhythm twice as fast as the overall beat, with this pattern of note lengths: 3/16 3/16 1/4 3/16 3/16.
- (military) A fast marching pace of 180 steps per minute, 36 inches in length for the Marine Corps and Navy, 30 inches in length for the Army. It is not really double the speed of quick time as quick time is 112-120 steps per minute.
- A rate of pay that is twice the normal rate (for reasons such as working on a holiday or working hazardous duty).
- a doubled wage (for working overtime)
- a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog
adv
noun
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- a fabric with long coarse nap
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
verb
- dance the shag
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
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noun
- (dance) A dance move consisting of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a joining or uniting step with the other foot.
- (dance) A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps.
- a ballroom dance in duple meter; marked by sliding steps
- (music) A piece of music for this dance.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- A fancy dance step executed by jumping and striking the legs together.
- (tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.
- A certain fancy figure in skating.
- A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.
- An old style of dressing men's side hair in a form resembling a pigeon's wings; or a wig of similar shape.
noun
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
verb
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- dance a clog dance
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- coalesce or unite in a mass
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
noun
- a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot
- an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon
- (dance) A dance style in which the dancer appears to be moving in a low gravity environment.
- (dance) A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide.
- (astronautics) An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot by an astronaut.
- (astronautics, by extension) Activity on the Moon, outside any moonbase, exposed to space, by an astronaut
verb
- (intransitive) To walk on the surface of the Moon.
- (intransitive, dance) To perform the moonwalk.
- (intransitive) To walk in leaps, like on the Moon or on other low gravity surfaces.
- (intransitive) To walk in a manner that is similar to the moonwalk dance style; to move while sliding backwards as though the feet move as if one was walking forwards.
noun
- (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
- A short written or spoken expression.
- (grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.
- a short musical passage
- an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
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- A certain move in tap dance.
- (film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
- (differential geometry) The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
- (historical) A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
- (category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
- The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
- (finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
- (category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)
- (sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops)
- a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back
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- (more specifically) A dancer in a step show.
- A dancer.
- (slang) A foot.
- Anything that moves or advances in steps.
- A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
- A type of exercise machine.
- (furry fandom) The feet of anthropomorphic animals, especially paws.
- A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
- A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
- (colloquial, especially in the plural) A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.
- a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting
- a professional dancer
- a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps
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- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
verb
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
noun
- (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
- A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
- (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
- (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
- A brisk journey or progression.
- Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”).
- A toddler.
- a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
- a slow pace of running
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
- (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
- run at a moderately swift pace
- ride at a trot
- cause to trot
noun
- A kind of Provençal dance.
- A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria).
- The music for this dance.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
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- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
verb
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
- tremble or shake
- dance a shimmy
noun
- A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
- (formal) A prom (dance).
- A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
- A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
- a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
- a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance
- a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle
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- (dance) A dance move consisting of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a joining or uniting step with the other foot.
- (dance) A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps.
- a ballroom dance in duple meter; marked by sliding steps
- (music) A piece of music for this dance.
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- A hiking technique for managing loose soil where the hiker first aggressively kicks the ground, digging a foothold, before shifting weight onto the foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the dancer first kicks a foot in the air in front of the opposite leg (often while bending the knee slightly on that leg) and then puts the foot down shifting balance on to it.
noun
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- Stepping (style of dance)
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- (machines) 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.
- (nautical) 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.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- 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.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- 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 running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
verb
- To dance.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) 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.
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noun
- A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
- (music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
- (music) A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
- (music) A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
- a stately court dance in the 17th century
- a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
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- (performing arts) A stage performance or striptease in which a female entertainer disrobes while dancing with large hand-held fans that are alternately used to conceal and provide glimpses of her erogenous body regions.
- (idiomatic, figurative, by extension) The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.
- (performing arts) A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans.
- a solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness
noun
- A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
- (formal) A prom (dance).
- A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
- A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
- a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
- a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance
- a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle