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adv
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- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- draw someone's attention away from something
- (transitive, figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).
- (psychology) To redirect culpability to avoid it.
- (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.
- (intransitive) To deviate from an original path or position.
- (transitive, ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
adj
- deviating widely from an intended course
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
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- A detour.
- a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
- a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement
- (chiefly UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia and sometimes US, especially New England) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
- A fairground carousel.
- A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
- (chiefly British) A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
verb
verb
- cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
- (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
- turn aside; turn away from
- be at variance with; be out of line with
- (transitive) To cause to diverge.
- (intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
adj
noun
verb
- deviate erratically from a set course
- swerve off course momentarily
- be wide open
- (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
- (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
noun
- an erratic deflection from an intended course
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
verb
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To steal.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- put into a bag
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- take unlawfully
- capture or kill, as in hunting
noun
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
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noun
- A turning away from a straight course.
- deviation from a straight or normal course
- (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- (countable) An affix representing a given variation.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- (countable) Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
- (countable) Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- (optometry) Diffraction.
- (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
- the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
verb
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a circular segment of a curve
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- A curve.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
verb
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- refuse entrance or membership
- turn away or aside
- move so as not face somebody or something
- (transitive, figuratively) To avert or ward off the occurrence or effects of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forsake or refuse an association or commitment.
- (transitive, figuratively) To refuse to admit someone or accept something.
- (transitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
- (transitive, literally) To rotate so as not to face someone or something.
- (intransitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
- (intransitive, literally) To rotate oneself so as not to face someone or something.
verb
- send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
- (transitive) To turn aside from a course.
- occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
- turn aside; turn away from
- withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
- (transitive) To distract.
- (transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
noun
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- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
noun
- deviation from a straight or normal course
- the state of being flexed (as of a joint)
- act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased
- The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.
- The state of being bent or flexed.
- Deviation from straightness.
verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- depart for someplace
- go away or leave
- move away from a place into another direction
- be at variance with; be out of line with
- (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.
- (intransitive, figurative) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object)
- (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (transitive) To go away from; to leave.
- (intransitive) To leave.
verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
- (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- (intransitive) To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
- (rail transport) To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
- To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
- To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
noun
- a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- (sometimes) Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
- (mining) A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- (intransitive) To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
- go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
- (intransitive) To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
- To move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.
noun
verb
- wander from a direct course or at random
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- be subject to fluctuation
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
noun
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
verb
- wander from a direct course or at random
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
- (intransitive) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- (intransitive) To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- (transitive) To cause to stray; lead astray.
adj
noun
- an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)
- (BDSM) A submissive that has not committed to submit to any particular dominant, particulary in petplay.
- (radio) An instance of atmospheric interference.
- (literally or figuratively) A person who is lost.
- (slang) A casual or offhand insult.
- Ellipsis of stray bullet.
- (historical) An area of common land for use by domestic animals.
- Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- An act of wandering off or going astray.
noun
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
verb
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- (UK, Ireland) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
- the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe
- a movement in a new direction
- a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe
- act of changing in practice or custom
- the activity of shaping something on a lathe
- The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
- (field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
- (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
- One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
- The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
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adj
- having no fixed course
- of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
- involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
- of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets
- Of, or relating to the whole Earth; global.
- (of a gear train) Epicyclic.
- Of, or relating to the Earth; terrestrial.
- (astronomy) Of, or relating to planets, or the orbital motion of planets.
noun
noun
- rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
- the recovery of useful substances from waste products
- the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
- The recovery of a wasteland, or of flooded land so it can be cultivated.
- The act of reclaiming or the state of being reclaimed.
noun
- rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
- improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs
- An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
- Alternative form of re-formation.
- (law) Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.
verb
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
adj
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
adv
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive, slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
- extend in curves and turns
- form an arch or curve
- bend or cause to bend
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
noun
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- (nonstandard, by extension) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
verb
- follow a certain course
- be sounded, played, or expressed
- lead, extend, or afford access
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- be spent
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- to be spent or finished
- be or continue to be in a certain condition
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- progress by being changed
- be abolished or discarded
- begin or set in motion
- be contained in
- stop operating or functioning
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- follow a procedure or take a course
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- be ranked or compare
- be awarded; be allotted
- move away from a place into another direction
- blend or harmonize
- make a certain noise or sound
- be in the right place or situation
- perform as expected when applied
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- continue to live and avoid dying
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- (transitive) To make the (specified) sound.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become (often used with colors and negative states).
- To come (to a certain condition or state).
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- (intransitive) To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- (transitive) To yield or weigh.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- (imperative) Expressing encouragement or approval.
- (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- (intransitive) To be valid or applicable.
- (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To fight, usually with the fists.
- To travel or pass along.
- (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- (intransitive) To fight or attack.
- (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- (in phrases with 'as') Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.
- (intransitive) To be accepted.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
- To move to (a position or state).
- (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- (intransitive, snooker) Of a ball, to be capable of being potted, not having its path to the pocket obstructed by other balls.
- (intransitive) To extend along.
- (intransitive, usually followed by with) To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.
- (transitive, colloquial) To say (something, aloud or to oneself).
- (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- (intransitive, often followed by a preposition) To fit.
- (transitive, Australian slang) To attack.
- (intransitive) To date.
- (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
- (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
- (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- (intransitive) To belong (somewhere).
- (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
- (intransitive) To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.
- (intransitive) Of an opinion or instruction, to have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
- (intransitive) To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- (intransitive) To be sold.
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- (intransitive) To break down or decay.
- (intransitive) To be discarded or disposed of.
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- (intransitive) To tend (toward a result)
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- (intransitive) To attend.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access (to).
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- (transitive) To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- (UK, especially MLE, Australia, Singapore, intransitive, colloquial) Clipping of go to the.
- (intransitive) To resort (to).
- (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay; to sell for.
adj
noun
- street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a usually brief attempt
- a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
- An attempt, a try.
- An act; the working or operation.
- (uncountable) Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- A period of activity.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- (uncommon) The act of going.
- (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- A time; an experience.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
verb
- follow a certain course
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- follow a procedure or take a course
- continue talking
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To take an academic degree.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- (law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
noun
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
adv
adj
noun
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
verb
verb
- retrace one's course
- (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
- To retrace one's steps.
- To repeat or review work already done.
- To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
- To go back on or withdraw a statement.
noun
verb
- retrace one's course
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- go back to a previous state
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- turn inside out or upside down
- (transitive) To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
- (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
- (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
- (transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- To return to a previous state of being.
- (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
verb
noun
noun
- A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
- An temporary alternative route available to motorists away from the usual route due to a closure for repairs, dealing with an accident, or some event rendering the usual route unusable.
- a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
verb
noun
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A chimney sweep.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- clean by sweeping
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
verb
- (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
- (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
- (intransitive) To commit adultery.
- (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
- (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- go via an indirect route or at no set pace
noun
adv
adj
verb
- (nautical) To turn sharply in order to deviate from the current heading or course.
- (said of a seal or sea-lion) To come out of the water, in order to rest
- (nautical) To pull a boat out of the water; (by extension, loosely) to drydock a ship.
- (nautical) To pull on an outhaul in order to extend (a sail) along a spar, or to pull on a reef-tackle to reef (a sail).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, out.
adj
- having a heading or course in a certain direction
- having a heading or caption
- of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
- having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination
- (in combination) Having hair of a specified color.
- (of hardware) Having been headed: having had a head formed (by deformation such as die-stamping).
- (in combination) Having a head or brain with specified characteristics.
- (in combination) Heading in a certain direction.
- Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top.
verb
prefix
- Away from, outward, or apart in direction.
- Not, opposite.
- Furthest in position
- (biochemistry) An apoenzyme: an enzyme without its cofactor; associated apoproteins.
- Different, distinct.
- (organic chemisty) Derived from, or related to.
- Distant, far from, or apart in position.
- Exterior, outside of.
- To carry forth, to do.
- (astronomy) Apoapsis: the point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
- From, coming from.
- Disjoint, separate.
- Removal, amputation.
- (biochemistry) Lacking a metallic unit.
- Lacking, without, scant.
noun
- An upward or progressive course.
- An escalator clause.
- A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
- Anything that escalates.
- a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)
- a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
verb
adj
verb
adj
noun
- a group of followers or enthusiasts
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
- Vocation; business; profession.
- (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
- (social media) An account which is followed.
prep
verb
verb
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- To visit numerous different places.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move around; move from place to place
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- be released or become known; of news
noun
- the act of moving away in different direction from a common point
- a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
- an infinite series that has no limit
- a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
- The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.
- The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
- (calculus) The operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i).
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
adj
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
noun
adj
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
- Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
- (LGBTQ) Clipping of bi-curious.
- (inorganic chemistry, rare) Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.
- Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
- Caused by curiosity.
- (in combination) Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.
adj
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- experiencing odd bodily sensations
- not as expected
- arousing or provoking laughter
- (UK, Ireland, informal) Showing unexpected resentment.
- Amusing; humorous; comical.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) Homosexual; gay.
- Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way.
noun
adv
adj
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- of the remaining member of a pair
- not divisible by two
- not used up
- not easily explained
- an indefinite quantity more than that specified
- (not comparable) Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- (not comparable) Numbered with an odd number.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- (not comparable) Used or employed for odd jobs.
- (not comparable) Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- (not comparable) Not regular or planned.
- Out of the way, secluded.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- (not comparable) Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- (not comparable) Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- (not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- (sports) On the left.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.
noun
adj
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- markedly different from the usual; special
- characteristic of one only; distinctive or special
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
- Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.
noun
adj
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
- (loosely) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
verb
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
- (slang, LGBTQ, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
adv
adj
noun
- a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
- liquor distilled from fermented molasses
- (rare) The card game rummy.
- (inexact) A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
- (countable) A kind or brand of rum.
- (uncountable) A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
- (countable) A serving of rum.
adj
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- unusual or striking
- the single one of its kind
- being a single and separate person or thing
- grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
- composed of one member, set, or kind
- Being the only one of the kind; unique.
- Being only one of a larger population; single, individual.
- (linear algebra, of matrix) Having no inverse.
- (set theory, of a cardinal number) Not equal to its own cofinality.
- Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.
- (linear algebra, of transformation) Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
- (chiefly law) Each; individual.
- (grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.
- Out of the ordinary; curious.
noun
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A turning away from a straight course.
- deviation from a straight or normal course
- (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- (countable) An affix representing a given variation.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- (countable) Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
- (countable) Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- (optometry) Diffraction.
- (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
- the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
verb
- deviate erratically from a set course
- swerve off course momentarily
- be wide open
- (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
- (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
noun
- an erratic deflection from an intended course
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
noun
verb
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
noun
- deviation from a straight or normal course
- the state of being flexed (as of a joint)
- act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased
- The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.
- The state of being bent or flexed.
- Deviation from straightness.
noun
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
verb
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- (UK, Ireland) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
- the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe
- a movement in a new direction
- a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe
- act of changing in practice or custom
- the activity of shaping something on a lathe
- The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
- (field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
- (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
- One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
- The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
verb
noun
- rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
- the recovery of useful substances from waste products
- the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
- The recovery of a wasteland, or of flooded land so it can be cultivated.
- The act of reclaiming or the state of being reclaimed.
noun
- rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
- improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs
- An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
- Alternative form of re-formation.
- (law) Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.
noun
- A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
- An temporary alternative route available to motorists away from the usual route due to a closure for repairs, dealing with an accident, or some event rendering the usual route unusable.
- a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
verb
noun
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A chimney sweep.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- clean by sweeping
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
adj
noun
- A detour.
- a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
- a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement
- (chiefly UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia and sometimes US, especially New England) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
- A fairground carousel.
- A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
- (chiefly British) A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
verb
noun
- An upward or progressive course.
- An escalator clause.
- A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
- Anything that escalates.
- a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)
- a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
verb
verb
- wander from a direct course or at random
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- be subject to fluctuation
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
noun
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
noun
- the act of moving away in different direction from a common point
- a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
- an infinite series that has no limit
- a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
- The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.
- The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
- (calculus) The operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i).
verb
- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- draw someone's attention away from something
- (transitive, figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).
- (psychology) To redirect culpability to avoid it.
- (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.
- (intransitive) To deviate from an original path or position.
- (transitive, ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
verb
- cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
- (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
- turn aside; turn away from
- be at variance with; be out of line with
- (transitive) To cause to diverge.
- (intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
adj
noun
verb
- deviate erratically from a set course
- swerve off course momentarily
- be wide open
- (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
- (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
noun
- an erratic deflection from an intended course
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
verb
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To steal.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- put into a bag
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- take unlawfully
- capture or kill, as in hunting
noun
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
verb
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a circular segment of a curve
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- A curve.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
verb
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- refuse entrance or membership
- turn away or aside
- move so as not face somebody or something
- (transitive, figuratively) To avert or ward off the occurrence or effects of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forsake or refuse an association or commitment.
- (transitive, figuratively) To refuse to admit someone or accept something.
- (transitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
- (transitive, literally) To rotate so as not to face someone or something.
- (intransitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
- (intransitive, literally) To rotate oneself so as not to face someone or something.
verb
- send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
- (transitive) To turn aside from a course.
- occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
- turn aside; turn away from
- withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
- (transitive) To distract.
- (transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- depart for someplace
- go away or leave
- move away from a place into another direction
- be at variance with; be out of line with
- (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.
- (intransitive, figurative) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object)
- (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (transitive) To go away from; to leave.
- (intransitive) To leave.
verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
- (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- (intransitive) To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
- (rail transport) To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
- To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
- To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
noun
- a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- (sometimes) Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
- (mining) A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- (intransitive) To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
- go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
- (intransitive) To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
- To move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.
noun
verb
- wander from a direct course or at random
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- be subject to fluctuation
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
noun
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
verb
- wander from a direct course or at random
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
- (intransitive) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- (intransitive) To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- (transitive) To cause to stray; lead astray.
adj
noun
- an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)
- (BDSM) A submissive that has not committed to submit to any particular dominant, particulary in petplay.
- (radio) An instance of atmospheric interference.
- (literally or figuratively) A person who is lost.
- (slang) A casual or offhand insult.
- Ellipsis of stray bullet.
- (historical) An area of common land for use by domestic animals.
- Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- An act of wandering off or going astray.
verb
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
adj
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
adv
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive, slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
- extend in curves and turns
- form an arch or curve
- bend or cause to bend
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
noun
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- (nonstandard, by extension) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
verb
- follow a certain course
- be sounded, played, or expressed
- lead, extend, or afford access
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- be spent
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- to be spent or finished
- be or continue to be in a certain condition
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- progress by being changed
- be abolished or discarded
- begin or set in motion
- be contained in
- stop operating or functioning
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- follow a procedure or take a course
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- be ranked or compare
- be awarded; be allotted
- move away from a place into another direction
- blend or harmonize
- make a certain noise or sound
- be in the right place or situation
- perform as expected when applied
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- continue to live and avoid dying
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- (transitive) To make the (specified) sound.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become (often used with colors and negative states).
- To come (to a certain condition or state).
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- (intransitive) To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- (transitive) To yield or weigh.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- (imperative) Expressing encouragement or approval.
- (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- (intransitive) To be valid or applicable.
- (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To fight, usually with the fists.
- To travel or pass along.
- (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- (intransitive) To fight or attack.
- (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- (in phrases with 'as') Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.
- (intransitive) To be accepted.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
- To move to (a position or state).
- (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- (intransitive, snooker) Of a ball, to be capable of being potted, not having its path to the pocket obstructed by other balls.
- (intransitive) To extend along.
- (intransitive, usually followed by with) To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.
- (transitive, colloquial) To say (something, aloud or to oneself).
- (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- (intransitive, often followed by a preposition) To fit.
- (transitive, Australian slang) To attack.
- (intransitive) To date.
- (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
- (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
- (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- (intransitive) To belong (somewhere).
- (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
- (intransitive) To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.
- (intransitive) Of an opinion or instruction, to have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
- (intransitive) To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- (intransitive) To be sold.
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- (intransitive) To break down or decay.
- (intransitive) To be discarded or disposed of.
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- (intransitive) To tend (toward a result)
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- (intransitive) To attend.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access (to).
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- (transitive) To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- (UK, especially MLE, Australia, Singapore, intransitive, colloquial) Clipping of go to the.
- (intransitive) To resort (to).
- (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay; to sell for.
adj
noun
- street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a usually brief attempt
- a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
- An attempt, a try.
- An act; the working or operation.
- (uncountable) Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- A period of activity.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- (uncommon) The act of going.
- (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- A time; an experience.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
verb
- follow a certain course
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- follow a procedure or take a course
- continue talking
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To take an academic degree.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- (law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
verb
- retrace one's course
- (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
- To retrace one's steps.
- To repeat or review work already done.
- To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
- To go back on or withdraw a statement.
noun
verb
- retrace one's course
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- go back to a previous state
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- turn inside out or upside down
- (transitive) To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
- (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
- (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
- (transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- To return to a previous state of being.
- (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
- (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
- (intransitive) To commit adultery.
- (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
- (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- go via an indirect route or at no set pace
noun
verb
- (nautical) To turn sharply in order to deviate from the current heading or course.
- (said of a seal or sea-lion) To come out of the water, in order to rest
- (nautical) To pull a boat out of the water; (by extension, loosely) to drydock a ship.
- (nautical) To pull on an outhaul in order to extend (a sail) along a spar, or to pull on a reef-tackle to reef (a sail).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, out.
verb
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- To visit numerous different places.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move around; move from place to place
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- be released or become known; of news
noun
verb
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
adv
adj
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
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- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
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- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
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- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
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- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
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- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
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- deviating widely from an intended course
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
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- A detour.
- a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
- a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement
- (chiefly UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia and sometimes US, especially New England) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
- A fairground carousel.
- A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
- (chiefly British) A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
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- having no fixed course
- of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
- involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
- of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets
- Of, or relating to the whole Earth; global.
- (of a gear train) Epicyclic.
- Of, or relating to the Earth; terrestrial.
- (astronomy) Of, or relating to planets, or the orbital motion of planets.
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- having a heading or course in a certain direction
- having a heading or caption
- of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
- having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination
- (in combination) Having hair of a specified color.
- (of hardware) Having been headed: having had a head formed (by deformation such as die-stamping).
- (in combination) Having a head or brain with specified characteristics.
- (in combination) Heading in a certain direction.
- Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top.
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- a group of followers or enthusiasts
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
- Vocation; business; profession.
- (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
- (social media) An account which is followed.
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- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
- Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
- (LGBTQ) Clipping of bi-curious.
- (inorganic chemistry, rare) Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.
- Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
- Caused by curiosity.
- (in combination) Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.
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- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- experiencing odd bodily sensations
- not as expected
- arousing or provoking laughter
- (UK, Ireland, informal) Showing unexpected resentment.
- Amusing; humorous; comical.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) Homosexual; gay.
- Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way.
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- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- of the remaining member of a pair
- not divisible by two
- not used up
- not easily explained
- an indefinite quantity more than that specified
- (not comparable) Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- (not comparable) Numbered with an odd number.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- (not comparable) Used or employed for odd jobs.
- (not comparable) Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- (not comparable) Not regular or planned.
- Out of the way, secluded.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- (not comparable) Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- (not comparable) Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- (not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- (sports) On the left.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.
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- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- markedly different from the usual; special
- characteristic of one only; distinctive or special
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
- Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.
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- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
- (loosely) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
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- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
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- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
- (slang, LGBTQ, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
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- a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
- liquor distilled from fermented molasses
- (rare) The card game rummy.
- (inexact) A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
- (countable) A kind or brand of rum.
- (uncountable) A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
- (countable) A serving of rum.
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- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- unusual or striking
- the single one of its kind
- being a single and separate person or thing
- grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
- composed of one member, set, or kind
- Being the only one of the kind; unique.
- Being only one of a larger population; single, individual.
- (linear algebra, of matrix) Having no inverse.
- (set theory, of a cardinal number) Not equal to its own cofinality.
- Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.
- (linear algebra, of transformation) Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
- (chiefly law) Each; individual.
- (grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.
- Out of the ordinary; curious.
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- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
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- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
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- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.