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- Any similarly shaped container.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a concave shape with an open top
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- A container.
- a container that is used to put or keep things in
- (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
- (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
- (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
- A condensed rachis of a capitate or umbellate inflorescence at the end of the peduncle, to which all of the florets or pedicels are attached.
- (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
- enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
- an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
- The contents of such a container.
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- (British, informal) (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
- (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- (UK, dialectal) A building; house.
- (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
- a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
- the quantity contained in a bottle
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- (British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- (printing, intransitive) Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
- (British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- (British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- (transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- (British, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position.
- put into bottles
- store (liquids or gases) in bottles
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- a container that is usually woven and has handles
- (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
- (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
- (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
- (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- (uncountable) The game of basketball.
- (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- (economics) Short for basket of goods
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- (by extension) A bed for a cat.
- (LGBTQ, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
- horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- the quantity contained in a basket
- a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
- a small container
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
- a cylindrical container that holds liquids
- the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- any of various units of capacity
- a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
- (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and resembles a barrel.
- (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
- Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
- (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
- (television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
- (automotive) A venturi (in carburetion).
- (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
- (countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- put in barrels
- (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
- (poker slang) To bet consecutively on multiple streets.
- (intransitive) To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
- (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
- shallow container made of metal
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
- (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
- (music) A kind of organ stop.
- The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
- A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
- (botany) A hollow horn-like growth.
- A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
- (basketball, informal) A field goal.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A great deal of anything.
- (slang, humorous) A helmet.
- (MTE, slang, derogatory) Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
- (aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
- (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
- (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- (basketball, informal) The basket.
- A bucket bag.
- (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- The amount held in this container.
- the quantity contained in a bucket
- a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
- (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
- (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
- (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
- (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
- (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
- (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
- put into a bucket
- carry in a bucket
- a wrapped container
- (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
- (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
- (television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
- Something resembling a package.
- A package holiday.
- (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
- Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
- A football formation.
- (journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- The top or cover of a container.
- (slang) A cap or hat.
- (Liverpool, slang) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
- (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
- (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- (figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
- (biology) An operculum or other lid-like cover.
- (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
- Clipping of eyelid.
- (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
- (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
- a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.
- either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
- headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- a container; usually has a lid
- the quantity contained in a bin
- (MLE, MTE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
- A container for rubbish or waste.
- (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
- Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
- (computing) Clipping of binary.
- (slang) Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
- (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
- A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
- (science fiction, slang) A metal spaceship or space station.
- (slang) An inexpensive car.
- (slang) A motor home or trailer.
- (nautical, slang) A destroyer.
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence.
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- informal term for a destroyer
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
- a craft designed for water transportation
- a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- (American football) The areas behind the line of scrimmage to either side of an offensive football formation.
- (rail transport) A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
- (publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
- (technical, theatre, stagecraft) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
- (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- (horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- (postal) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- (music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/flat tire.
- (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- (optics) A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- Ellipsis of flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
- (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
- The most prominent flat part of something.
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- (Australia, horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- (gambling, slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- (in the phrase 'the flat') Level ground in general.
- (historical) An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- (US) Ellipsis of flat water (“nonfizzy drinking water”).
- (chiefly British, New England, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, archaic elsewhere) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent
- (Canadian Prairies, British Columbia) A 24-case of beer.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- (rail transport, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a level tract of land
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
- (not comparable, commerce) Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- (of colours) Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism) Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
- (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- (algebraic geometry, scheme theory, of a morphism of schemes) Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
- (authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
- (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- (slang) Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Not diphthongal; without variation in height or backness.
- (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- (homological algebra, of a module) Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- (of measurements of time) Exact.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Having no variations in height.
- (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
- (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- (of coffee) Having little froth and little milk.
- (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- having lost effervescence
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- horizontally level
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- commercially inactive
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
- Completely, firmly, or unequivocally.
- Directly; flatly.
- (with units of time, distance, etc) Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Completely.
- (of accurately measured timings) Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
- (of a sentence) Without parole.
- with flat sails
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
- (transitive) To dash or throw
- (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
- (intransitive) To dash, rush
- (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- the sound of a drum
- a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
- (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- (US) Synonym of construction barrel.
- (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
- (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
- (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- (music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- make a rhythmic sound
- play a percussion instrument
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- (intransitive) To beat a drum.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- (ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
- a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
- the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
- an artist skilled at drawing
- An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
- Attributive form of drawers.
- A barman; a person who draws the beer from the taps.
- (mining, historical) A wagoner or person who pushes underground tubs.
- (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
- Agent noun of draw; one who draws.
- Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.
- An artist who primarily makes drawings.
- (graphical user interface) A side panel containing supplementary content.
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- a cylindrical vessel, typically used for storing food
- (British, Ireland, colloquial, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- (originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- (countable) The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- (countable, also figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- (countable) A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- (British, Ireland, colloquial) A pint glass
- (countable, by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.
- a sudden jarring impact
- the quantity contained in a jar
- place in a cylindrical vessel
- (ambitransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.
- (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
- (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- shock physically
- affect in a disagreeable way
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
- The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
- a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat
- (especially) That of a hat.
- (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
- Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
- A projecting rim.
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
- (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
- either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
- (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
- (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
- (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- (colloquial) Clipping of lipstick.
- (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
- (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
- (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- (transitive) To utter verbally.
- (transitive, figuratively, of an object) To touch lightly.
- (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
- the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached
- the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
- a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
- (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended
- (British, dialectal) A step of a ladder; a rung.
- (UK dialectal) A membrane.
- (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
- An edge around something, especially when circular.
- (wine) The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.
- (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
- run around the rim of
- roll around the rim of
- furnish with a rim
- (vulgar, slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
- (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
- (transitive) To form a rim on.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.
- (bartending) To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.
- Contained; held within a container.
- (music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.
- Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.
- closed in or surrounded or included within
- A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
- A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.
- (childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.
- (slang) Jail or prison.
- (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
- (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
- A chimney pot.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- (nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- the quantity contained in a can
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- (transitive) To seal in a can.
- (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.
- (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.
- (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.
- (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can
- (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to.
- (Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.
- (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- (transitive, slang) To shut up.
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- preserve in a can or tin
- A container in the form of a flexible bag.
- (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
- A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
- (figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
- (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
- (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
- a bag that fills with air
- a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
- arrange in a container
- carry, as on one's back
- hike with a backpack
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- fill to capacity
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- seal with packing
- press down tightly
- compress into a wad
- press tightly together or cram
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- (transitive) To load with a pack.
- (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive, progressive aspect, slang) To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
- (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data).
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, figurative) To load; to encumber.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- a complete collection of similar things
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a group of hunting animals
- A full set of playing cards
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A shook of cask staves.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A multitude.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A flock of knots.
- (slang) A package of cigarettes.
- An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
- A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
- A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
- A circular sled without runners.
- A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
- a disk used in throwing competitions
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
- an enclosed space
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
- A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
- A cyst or sac containing fluid.
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a tubular wind instrument
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- the quantity that a basin will hold
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- The filling of a container or area.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- An amount that fills a container.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
- To enter (something), making it full.
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
- the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
- any wrapper or covering
- a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
- a natural covering (as by a fluid)
- the bag containing the gas in a balloon
- (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
- (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
- Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
- A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
- (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
- a container in which something can be shaken
- a person who wields power and influence
- A variety of pigeon.
- A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
- A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
- One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
- A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
- A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
- A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
- (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
- The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.
- A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
- Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
- round gourd of the calabash tree
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
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- Any similarly shaped container.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a concave shape with an open top
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- A container.
- a container that is used to put or keep things in
- (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
- (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
- (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
- A condensed rachis of a capitate or umbellate inflorescence at the end of the peduncle, to which all of the florets or pedicels are attached.
- (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
- enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
- an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
- The contents of such a container.
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- (British, informal) (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
- (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- (UK, dialectal) A building; house.
- (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
- a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
- the quantity contained in a bottle
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- (British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- (printing, intransitive) Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
- (British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- (British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- (transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- (British, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position.
- put into bottles
- store (liquids or gases) in bottles
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- a container that is usually woven and has handles
- (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
- (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
- (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
- (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- (uncountable) The game of basketball.
- (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- (economics) Short for basket of goods
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- (by extension) A bed for a cat.
- (LGBTQ, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
- horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- the quantity contained in a basket
- a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
- a small container
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
- a cylindrical container that holds liquids
- the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- any of various units of capacity
- a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
- (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and resembles a barrel.
- (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
- Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
- (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
- (television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
- (automotive) A venturi (in carburetion).
- (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
- (countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- put in barrels
- (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
- (poker slang) To bet consecutively on multiple streets.
- (intransitive) To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
- (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
- shallow container made of metal
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
- (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
- (music) A kind of organ stop.
- The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
- A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
- (botany) A hollow horn-like growth.
- A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
- (basketball, informal) A field goal.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A great deal of anything.
- (slang, humorous) A helmet.
- (MTE, slang, derogatory) Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
- (aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
- (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
- (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- (basketball, informal) The basket.
- A bucket bag.
- (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- The amount held in this container.
- the quantity contained in a bucket
- a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
- (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
- (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
- (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
- (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
- (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
- (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
- put into a bucket
- carry in a bucket
- a wrapped container
- (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
- (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
- (television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
- Something resembling a package.
- A package holiday.
- (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
- Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
- A football formation.
- (journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- The top or cover of a container.
- (slang) A cap or hat.
- (Liverpool, slang) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
- (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
- (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- (figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
- (biology) An operculum or other lid-like cover.
- (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
- Clipping of eyelid.
- (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
- (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
- a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.
- either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
- headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- a container; usually has a lid
- the quantity contained in a bin
- (MLE, MTE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
- A container for rubbish or waste.
- (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
- Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
- (computing) Clipping of binary.
- (slang) Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
- (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
- A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
- (science fiction, slang) A metal spaceship or space station.
- (slang) An inexpensive car.
- (slang) A motor home or trailer.
- (nautical, slang) A destroyer.
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence.
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- informal term for a destroyer
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
- a craft designed for water transportation
- a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- (American football) The areas behind the line of scrimmage to either side of an offensive football formation.
- (rail transport) A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
- (publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
- (technical, theatre, stagecraft) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
- (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- (horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- (postal) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- (music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/flat tire.
- (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- (optics) A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- Ellipsis of flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
- (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
- The most prominent flat part of something.
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- (Australia, horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- (gambling, slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- (in the phrase 'the flat') Level ground in general.
- (historical) An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- (US) Ellipsis of flat water (“nonfizzy drinking water”).
- (chiefly British, New England, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, archaic elsewhere) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent
- (Canadian Prairies, British Columbia) A 24-case of beer.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- (rail transport, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a level tract of land
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
- (not comparable, commerce) Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- (of colours) Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism) Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
- (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- (algebraic geometry, scheme theory, of a morphism of schemes) Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
- (authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
- (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- (slang) Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Not diphthongal; without variation in height or backness.
- (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- (homological algebra, of a module) Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- (of measurements of time) Exact.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Having no variations in height.
- (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
- (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- (of coffee) Having little froth and little milk.
- (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- having lost effervescence
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- horizontally level
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- commercially inactive
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
- Completely, firmly, or unequivocally.
- Directly; flatly.
- (with units of time, distance, etc) Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Completely.
- (of accurately measured timings) Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
- (of a sentence) Without parole.
- with flat sails
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
- (transitive) To dash or throw
- (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
- (intransitive) To dash, rush
- (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- the sound of a drum
- a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
- (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- (US) Synonym of construction barrel.
- (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
- (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
- (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- (music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- make a rhythmic sound
- play a percussion instrument
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- (intransitive) To beat a drum.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- (ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
- a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
- the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
- an artist skilled at drawing
- An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
- Attributive form of drawers.
- A barman; a person who draws the beer from the taps.
- (mining, historical) A wagoner or person who pushes underground tubs.
- (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
- Agent noun of draw; one who draws.
- Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.
- An artist who primarily makes drawings.
- (graphical user interface) A side panel containing supplementary content.
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- a cylindrical vessel, typically used for storing food
- (British, Ireland, colloquial, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- (originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- (countable) The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- (countable, also figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- (countable) A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- (British, Ireland, colloquial) A pint glass
- (countable, by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.
- a sudden jarring impact
- the quantity contained in a jar
- place in a cylindrical vessel
- (ambitransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.
- (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
- (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- shock physically
- affect in a disagreeable way
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
- The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
- a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat
- (especially) That of a hat.
- (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
- Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
- A projecting rim.
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
- (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
- either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
- (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
- (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
- (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- (colloquial) Clipping of lipstick.
- (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
- (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
- (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- (transitive) To utter verbally.
- (transitive, figuratively, of an object) To touch lightly.
- (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
- the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached
- the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
- a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
- (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended
- (British, dialectal) A step of a ladder; a rung.
- (UK dialectal) A membrane.
- (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
- An edge around something, especially when circular.
- (wine) The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.
- (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
- run around the rim of
- roll around the rim of
- furnish with a rim
- (vulgar, slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
- (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
- (transitive) To form a rim on.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.
- (bartending) To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.
- A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
- A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.
- (childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.
- (slang) Jail or prison.
- (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
- (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
- A chimney pot.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- (nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- the quantity contained in a can
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- (transitive) To seal in a can.
- (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.
- (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.
- (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.
- (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can
- (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to.
- (Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.
- (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- (transitive, slang) To shut up.
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- preserve in a can or tin
- A container in the form of a flexible bag.
- (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
- A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
- (figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
- (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
- (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
- a bag that fills with air
- a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
- An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
- A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
- A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
- A circular sled without runners.
- A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
- a disk used in throwing competitions
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
- an enclosed space
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
- A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
- A cyst or sac containing fluid.
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a tubular wind instrument
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- the quantity that a basin will hold
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- The filling of a container or area.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- An amount that fills a container.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
- To enter (something), making it full.
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
- the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
- any wrapper or covering
- a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
- a natural covering (as by a fluid)
- the bag containing the gas in a balloon
- (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
- (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
- Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
- A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
- (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
- a container in which something can be shaken
- a person who wields power and influence
- A variety of pigeon.
- A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
- A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
- One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
- A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
- A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
- A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
- (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
- The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.
- A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
- Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
- round gourd of the calabash tree
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
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- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- a cylindrical vessel, typically used for storing food
- (British, Ireland, colloquial, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- (originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- (countable) The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- (countable, also figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- (countable) A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- (British, Ireland, colloquial) A pint glass
- (countable, by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.
- a sudden jarring impact
- the quantity contained in a jar
- place in a cylindrical vessel
- (ambitransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.
- (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
- (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- shock physically
- affect in a disagreeable way
- arrange in a container
- carry, as on one's back
- hike with a backpack
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- fill to capacity
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- seal with packing
- press down tightly
- compress into a wad
- press tightly together or cram
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- (transitive) To load with a pack.
- (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive, progressive aspect, slang) To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
- (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data).
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, figurative) To load; to encumber.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- a complete collection of similar things
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a group of hunting animals
- A full set of playing cards
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A shook of cask staves.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A multitude.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A flock of knots.
- (slang) A package of cigarettes.
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
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- Contained; held within a container.
- (music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.
- Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.
- closed in or surrounded or included within