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noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
verb
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
noun
- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
- A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
- An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
- (automotive, UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- A light blow with something flat.
- A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
- (aviation) A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
- (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
- a young oyster or other bivalve
- a quarrel about petty points
- a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles
verb
- (ambitransitive) To spawn, used of shellfish as above.
- (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
- (intransitive, originally US) To quarrel or argue pettily briefly.
- simple past and past participle of spit
- (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
- clap one's hands together
- become permanently attached
- engage in a brief and petty quarrel
- come down like raindrops
- strike with a sound like that of falling rain
- spawn
- clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
noun
- The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- (astronomy, by extension) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of any terrestrial planet.
- The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
- (British, Australia, informal) A living.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Northern US) A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
- The bread-like base of a pizza.
- A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
- An outer layer composed of pastry
- (uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.
- (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
- (music) Ellipsis of crust punk, a subgenre of punk music.
- the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- the outer layer of the Earth
- a hard outer layer that covers something
verb
noun
- The sablefish.
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
adj
noun
- (shellfish) A small oyster, of species Crassostrea virginica, from the eastern United States seaboard.
- (felinology) A colourpoint cat with blue markings.
- oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw
- small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island
noun
- flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
- large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
- any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- (US) A small bluefish.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- (US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- (slang, entertainment) A punchline.
- (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- (slang) The vulva.
- (Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
- (historical) A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- (US, informal) The snapping turtle.
- (American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- (US, colloquial) A string bean.
- A stumble, a trip.
- (US politics, historical) A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
verb
noun
- the shell of a clam
- The shell of a clam.
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with takeout food.
- (music) An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
- A hinged case for a video tape, cassette tape, or video game cartridge.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- (often attributive) Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
verb
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- (manufacturing) To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
noun
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
verb
noun
- The shell of this sea animal.
- Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
- (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
- A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
- A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
- any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
verb
noun
- One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
- A coffee bean.
- (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
- (slang, US, African-American) A police car.
- An excavation; a military mine.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.
- (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
- A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
- any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
- a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
verb
noun
adj
noun
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
- (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- (slang, MLE) Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- (slang) Human arm.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- a unit of military aircraft
- a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
- one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
- a stage area out of sight of the audience
- an addition that extends a main building
- the side of military or naval formation
- a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
- the wing of a fowl
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
verb
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- (transitive) To traverse by flying.
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive) To furnish with wings.
- travel through the air; be airborne
noun
- edible marine gastropod
- chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
- commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- (Pacific Northwest US) A caddisfly larva.
- Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.
- A mollusk of family Littorinidae.
- Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
- A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
adj
noun
- edible marine gastropod
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
- Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
- (childish, slang) The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.
verb
noun
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
verb
noun
noun
- large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
- small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
- female salmon that has recently spawned
- (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
- Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
- (chiefly Scotland) An Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick (Girella tricuspidata), and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
- A pilot whale (Globicephalus spp.) and occasionally also used for various other whales).
verb
noun
- any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
- small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
- slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
- The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
- A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
- (informal) A sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria).
- Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
noun
noun
- The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.
- (UK, informal) A bride-to-be, particularly in the context of a hen night.
- A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
- (Scotland, informal) An affectionate term of address used to women or girls.
- (uncommon) A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean.
- (UK, informal) A hen night.
- (transgender slang) The penis of a trans woman.
- (figuratively) A woman.
- (figuratively, derogatory, uncommon) A henlike person of either sex.
- A female chicken (Gallus gallus), especially a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
- adult female chicken
- adult female bird
- female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster
- flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing
adv
verb
noun
adj
- (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- Extending not far downward.
- (of an angle) Not steep; close to horizontal.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
- not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
- lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
verb
noun
- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
- flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
- A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
verb
noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
verb
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
noun
- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
- A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
- An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
- (automotive, UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- A light blow with something flat.
- A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
- (aviation) A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
- (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
- a young oyster or other bivalve
- a quarrel about petty points
- a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles
verb
- (ambitransitive) To spawn, used of shellfish as above.
- (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
- (intransitive, originally US) To quarrel or argue pettily briefly.
- simple past and past participle of spit
- (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
- clap one's hands together
- become permanently attached
- engage in a brief and petty quarrel
- come down like raindrops
- strike with a sound like that of falling rain
- spawn
- clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
noun
- The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- (astronomy, by extension) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of any terrestrial planet.
- The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
- (British, Australia, informal) A living.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Northern US) A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
- The bread-like base of a pizza.
- A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
- An outer layer composed of pastry
- (uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.
- (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
- (music) Ellipsis of crust punk, a subgenre of punk music.
- the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- the outer layer of the Earth
- a hard outer layer that covers something
verb
noun
- The sablefish.
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
adj
noun
- (shellfish) A small oyster, of species Crassostrea virginica, from the eastern United States seaboard.
- (felinology) A colourpoint cat with blue markings.
- oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw
- small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island
noun
- flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
- large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
- any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- (US) A small bluefish.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- (US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- (slang, entertainment) A punchline.
- (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- (slang) The vulva.
- (Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
- (historical) A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- (US, informal) The snapping turtle.
- (American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- (US, colloquial) A string bean.
- A stumble, a trip.
- (US politics, historical) A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
verb
noun
- the shell of a clam
- The shell of a clam.
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with takeout food.
- (music) An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
- A hinged case for a video tape, cassette tape, or video game cartridge.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- (often attributive) Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
verb
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- (manufacturing) To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
noun
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
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- The shell of this sea animal.
- Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
- (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
- A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
- A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
- any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
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- One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
- A coffee bean.
- (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
- (slang, US, African-American) A police car.
- An excavation; a military mine.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.
- (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
- A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
- any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
- a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
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- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
- (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- (slang, MLE) Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- (slang) Human arm.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- a unit of military aircraft
- a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
- one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
- a stage area out of sight of the audience
- an addition that extends a main building
- the side of military or naval formation
- a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
- the wing of a fowl
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
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- (intransitive) To fly.
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- (transitive) To traverse by flying.
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive) To furnish with wings.
- travel through the air; be airborne
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- edible marine gastropod
- chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
- commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- (Pacific Northwest US) A caddisfly larva.
- Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.
- A mollusk of family Littorinidae.
- Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
- A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
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- edible marine gastropod
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
- Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
- (childish, slang) The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.
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- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
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- large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
- small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
- female salmon that has recently spawned
- (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
- Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
- (chiefly Scotland) An Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick (Girella tricuspidata), and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
- A pilot whale (Globicephalus spp.) and occasionally also used for various other whales).
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- any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
- small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
- slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
- The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
- A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
- (informal) A sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria).
- Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
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- The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.
- (UK, informal) A bride-to-be, particularly in the context of a hen night.
- A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
- (Scotland, informal) An affectionate term of address used to women or girls.
- (uncommon) A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean.
- (UK, informal) A hen night.
- (transgender slang) The penis of a trans woman.
- (figuratively) A woman.
- (figuratively, derogatory, uncommon) A henlike person of either sex.
- A female chicken (Gallus gallus), especially a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
- adult female chicken
- adult female bird
- female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster
- flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing
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- (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- Extending not far downward.
- (of an angle) Not steep; close to horizontal.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
- not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
- lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
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- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
- flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
- A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
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- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
- A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
- An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
- (automotive, UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- A light blow with something flat.
- A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
- (aviation) A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
- (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
- a young oyster or other bivalve
- a quarrel about petty points
- a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles
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- (ambitransitive) To spawn, used of shellfish as above.
- (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
- (intransitive, originally US) To quarrel or argue pettily briefly.
- simple past and past participle of spit
- (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
- clap one's hands together
- become permanently attached
- engage in a brief and petty quarrel
- come down like raindrops
- strike with a sound like that of falling rain
- spawn
- clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
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