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noun
- The material that has been used to refill an excavation.
- reserve support personnel.
verb
- To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.
- to provide reserve support.
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noun
- A (typically uphostered) bench-like seat that runs along a wall.
- A similar bench in a military trench which soldiers stand on to shoot.
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noun
- an artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow
- a heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them
- a concentrated discharge of projectile weapons
- (context, by extension) an overwhelming outburst of words, especially of criticism
- (fencing) A "next hit wins" fight-off to determine the winner of a bout in case of a tie.
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noun
- a counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers
| | bed |
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noun
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.
- A prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping bed.
- A garden plot, as in "bed of roses".
- The bottom of a lake or other body of water, as in "sea bed".
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
- A flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed, as a "bed of lettuce".
- A deposit of ore, coal etc.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship, ship"s floor.
verb (bed, d, ed)
- To go to a sleeping bed.
- To put oneself to sleep.
- To settle, as machinery.
- To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- To set out plants in a garden bed.
- (Slang) To have sexual intercourse.
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noun
- A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
- As part of the act, the fat clown's broke, causing his pants to fall down.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- Keep your fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- The motor had a single that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist.
- After the bouncer gave him a solid to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of barfighting.
- (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product or feature (Corn Belt, Bible Belt).
verb
- (transitive) To encircle.
- The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
- (transitive) To fasten a belt.
- Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
- The rotund man had difficulting belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
- (transitive) To hit with a belt.
- The child was remanded to state custody when the lacerations on her back where her parents had belted her in punishment were revealed.
- (transitive) To sing in a loud manner.
- He belted out the national anthem.
- (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
- He belted down a shot of whisky.
- (context, transitive, slang) To hit someone or something.
- The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
- (intransitive) To move very fast
- He was really belting along.
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noun
- A long seat, for example, in the park.
- They sat on a park and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.
- In law, the people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.
- They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the .
- (context, law, figurative) The place where the judges sit.
- She sat on the for 30 years before she retired.
- The place where players of a sport sit when not playing.
- He spent the first three games on the , watching.
- A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
- She placed the workpiece on the , inspected it closely, and opened the cover.''
- (weightlifting) A horizontal padded surface, usually with a weight rack, used for support during exercise.
verb (bench, es)
- (context, transitive, sports) To sideline; to remove a player from play.
- They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.
- (context, transitive, weightlifting) To lift by bench pressing
- I heard he can 150 pounds.
- (slang) To push the victim back on the person behind them who is on their hands and knees and end up falling over
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noun
- An inclination or talent.
- He had a natural bent for painting.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- His mind was of a technical bent.
verb
- (past of, bend)
adjective
- Of something that is usually straight: folded.
- (context, slang, derogatory, mostly, UK) Homosexual.
- determined, Determined or insistent.
- He was on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
- Of a person leading a life of crime.
- (context, slang, football) inaccurate at shooting
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noun
- asphalt concrete, Asphalt concrete, an asphalt-based paving material.
- Any bituminous black paving material (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac)
verb (blacktops, blacktopping, blacktopped, blacktopped)
- To pave with blacktop.
- The county first blacktopped that road decades ago
adjective
- Of or pertaining to blacktop or its uses.
- It's a blacktopped road in bad need of repair.
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verb
- (present participle of, blind)
| | blow |
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noun
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A fabricator is used to direct a sharp to the surface of the stone.
- During an exchange to end round 13, Duran landed a to the mid-section.
- An unfortunate occurrence.
- A further to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.
- (slang) (uncountable) cocaine
- A strong wind.
- We're having a bit of a this afternoon.
- (colloquial) A chance to catch one"s breath.
- The players were able to get a bit of a during the last timeout.
verb (blows, blowing, blew or (dialect) blowed, blown or (dialect) blowed)
- (intransitive) To produce an air current
- Quotations
- Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! ! -- King Lear
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- The leaves through the streets in the fall.
- (intransitive) To explode
- Get away from that burning gas tank! It's about to !
- (intransitive) (slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck)
- This blows!
- (intransitive) (of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater it has taken in while feeding.
- There's nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and .
- There she blows! (That is, "I see a whale spouting!")
- (transitive) To propel by an air current.
- Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
- (transitive) To squander.
- I managed to $1000 at blackjack in under an hour.
- (transitive) (vulgar) To fellate.
- Who did you have to to get those backstage passes?
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as, to blow bubbles, to blow glass
- (transitive) To play a musical instrument such as a horn or woodwind.
- "He was blowing saxophone for me." Ike Turner, interview by Terri Gross, "Fresh Air", NPR, 1996.
- (transitive) To leave
- Let's this joint.
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noun
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
- Add the noodles when the water comes to the .
- The collective noun for a group of hawks.
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noun
- A large cushion or pillow.
verb
- To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
| | bore |
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noun
- A hole drilled or milled through something, as in the bore of a cannon
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
verb (bor, ing)
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody; to disinterest.
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noun
- Climbing, without ropes, on large boulders or boulder-sized objects.
| | breakout |
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noun
- An escape from prison
- An escape from any restrictive or confining situation
- An outbreak
- A breakdown of statistics
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noun
- A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
- The rope crosses the river.
- (anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
- Rugby players often break the of their noses.
- (dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent tooth, teeth.
- The dentist pulled out the decayed tooth and put in a .
- (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- The first officer is on the .
- (music) The piece, on string instruments, that support the strings from the sounding board.
- (computing) A device which connects two or more computer bus, buses, typically in a transparent manner.
- This chip is the between the front-side bus and the I/O bus.
- (communication) A system which connects two or more LAN, local area networks at layer 2.
- The LAN uses a spanning tree algorithm.
- (music) A song contained within another song, often demarcated by meter, key, or melody.
- The lyrics in the song's inverted its meaning.
- (chemistry) A valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
- (electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- (electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
- (billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
verb (bridg, ing)
- To be or make a bridge over something.
- With enough cable, we can this gorge.
- (idiomatic) To span as if with a bridge.
- The two groups were able to their differences.
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noun
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
- I need a to carry the water from the well.
- (context, variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- The amount held in this container.
- The horse drank a whole of water.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a .
- (slang) An old car that is not in good working order.
- (context, basketball, colloquial) The basket.
- The forward drove to the .
- (context, basketball, colloquial) A field goal.
- ''We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
verb
- (intransitive) (colloquial) To rain heavily.
- It"s really bucketing down out there.
- (intransitive) (colloquial) To travel very quickly.
- The boat is bucketing along.
- (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
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verb (bulldoz, es)
- To destroy with a bulldozer.
- He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
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noun
- A tractor with a big blade in front used for pushing earth and rocks or building debris.
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