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verb
- To harden the surface of iron or steel by infusing carbon into the surface layer
- (context, by extension) To make insensitive to hardship
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noun
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- The doctor put a on the boy"s broken arm.
- The collective group of people performing a play or production together.
- He"s in the of Oliver.
- The casting procedure.
- A small mass of earth excreted by a worm.
- An object made in a mould.
- The mould used to make cast objects; as, a plaster cast.
- A squint.
- visual, Visual appearance.
- Her features had a delicate to them.
(rfex, the ones without)
verb (casts, casting, cast, )
- To throw forcefully.
- He a stone at the dog.
- To throw something down or toss something aside.
- to away fear
- She the die.
- To throw a fishing line or net into the water.
- The fisherman the net into the sea.
- To assign a role in a play or performance.
- The director the part carefully.
- (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
- Casting is generally an indication of bad design.
- Make by pouring into a mould.
- (of animals) To lose the hair or fur of the coat, usually in spring.
- (context, of fabric) To twist or warp.
- (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail.
- (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- (context, accountancy) To add up a column of figures; cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
(rfex)
| | cast iron |
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noun
- A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould.
- Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important.
adjective
- (context, not comparable) Made of cast iron.
- I use a castiron skillet for frying pancakes.
- durable, Durable; tough; resiliant.
- Ernest has a cast-iron constitution and never gets sick.
- inflexible, Inflexible or without exception.
- The school's cast-iron policy on admissions fees left no leeway for needy students.
| | catcher |
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noun
- (baseball) The player that squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher
- Someone or something that catches.
| | center punch |
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noun
- (countable) a device used to create a small indentation in preparation for drilling a hole
- (countable) the small indentation created by such a device
verb (infl, en, verb, head=to center punch)
- to create a small hole or indentation in a workpiece as a guide in preparation for drilling
| | centerpunch |
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noun - A hand tool used to prepare a workpiece prior to drilling a hole. It typically compresses and then suddenly releases a spring, creating a small indentation that, in turn, guides and centers the drill.
- The indentation left by such a tool.
verb - To prepare a workpiece for drilling by using a centerpunch to create an indentation.
- To place something directly in the middle.
| | cermet |
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noun
- A composite material composed of ceramic and metal materials, used in such applications as industrial saws and turbine blades.
| | | charge |
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noun
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, i.e. a child to a babysitter.
- A load or burden.
- 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 261a.
- : we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that ;
- The amount of money levy, levied for a service.
- An instruction.
- An impetuous attack.
- An electric charge.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon
verb (charg, ing)
- To place a burden upon.
- To assign a duty to.
- I'm charging you with cleaning up the kitchen.
- To formally accuse of a crime.
- I'm charging you with grand theft auto.
- To assign a debit to an account.
- Let's charge this to marketing.
- To pay using a credit card.
- Can I charge this with my corporate card?
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat, on horseback or both.
- (military) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- (cricket) (of a batsman) To take a few steps doen the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To ready a firearm for use
- Charge your weapons, we're moving up
| | Cheek |
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proper noun
- The word Cheek is also an old family surname from Anglo-Saxon England that predates the Norman invasion. The Cheek family was among the first to immigrate to the US colonies in the early 17th century. The family crest is a white shield with three red crescents.
| | cheese |
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noun (cheese, pl2=cheeses)
- (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
- (uncountable) (slang) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or clichéd, i.e. cheesy.
- (uncountable) (slang) money
- (countable) (slang) (baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) (slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol, Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted. See w:Cheese (recreational drug).
verb (chees, es)
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
| | chill |
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noun
- A moderate but penetrating sense of cold.
- There was a in the air.
- A sudden numbing fear or dread.
- Despite the heat, he felt a as he entered the crimescene.
verb
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- Chill before serving.
- (context, transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- In the wind he chilled quickly.
- (context, intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (intransitive) To relax, lay back.
- Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
- (intransitive) To smoke marijuana.
- On Friday night do you wanna chill?
adjective
- Moderately cold or chilly.
- A wind was blowing down the street.
- (slang) calm, Calm, relaxed.
- I'm pretty most of the time.
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verb (chlorinat, ing)
- (context, transitive, chemistry) To add chlorine to (something, especially water, to purify it; or an auriferous substance, to extract gold from it).
| | chock |
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noun
- Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
- (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
verb
- To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
- (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
| | chrome |
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noun - Another name for chromium when used to plate other metals.
| | cladding |
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noun
- Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber.
- (context, construction): a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building.
verb
- (present participle of, clad)
| | clean |
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noun
- (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
verb
- (transitive) remove, Remove dirt from a place or object.
- Can you the windows today?
- (transitive) tidy, Tidy up, make a place neat.
- Clean your room right now!
- (context, transitive, climbing) Remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- (intransitive) Make things clean in general.
- She just likes to . That"s why I married her.
- (context, intransitive, curling) brush, Brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
adjective
- Not dirty.
- Are these dishes ?
- In a condition of having been cleaned.
- Your room is finally !
- In an unmarked condition.
- Put a sheet of paper into the printer.
- Pure, especially morally or religiously.
- Our kids can watch this movie because it is .
- Drug- and alcohol-free.
- I've been this time for eight months.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well.
- I"ll need a sharper knife to make cuts.
- (colloquial) Cool or neat.
- Damn, Shorty, those are some shoes ya got there!
- (context, Of a criminal record or driver"s license) Without restrictions or penalties.
- Unlike you, I"ve never been caused any accidents " my record is still !
- (context, aerodynamics) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
- (context, health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
- I want to make sure my fiancé is before we are married.
- Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
- I"m officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
adverb
- fully, Fully and completely.
- He was stabbed through.
| | clink |
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noun
- The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
- You could hear the of the glasses from the next room.
- (slang) Jail or prison, after the Clink prison in Southwark, London.
- If he keeps doing things like that, he"s sure to end up in the .
- Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
verb
- To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
- The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
| | close |
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noun
- An end of something.
- We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful .
verb (clos, ing)
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To move (a door) so that it closes its opening.
- Close the door behind you when you leave.
- To put an end to.
- the session
- To make (a gap) smaller.
- The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
adjective (clos, er)
- At a little distance; near.
- Is your house ?
- Intimate; well-loved.
- He is a friend.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- (context, Ireland, weather) hot, humid.
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adjective (coarser, coarsest)
- Composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture.
- Not refined.
- manners
- language
| | cobbing |
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noun - (nautical) an unofficial form of punishment among the crew involving blows to the buttocks from a piece of wood
| | cog |
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noun
- (historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
verb (cog, g, ed)
- to cheat at dice
- to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
| | COIN |
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abbreviation
- COunter INsurgency (military)
| | cold |
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noun
- A condition of low temperature.
- Come in, out of the .
- (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- I caught a miserable and had to stay home for a week.
adjective
- (context, of a thing) having a low temperature.
- A wind whistled through the trees.
- (context, of the weather) causing the air to be cold.
- The forecast is that it will be very today.
- (context, of a person or animal) feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- She was so she was shivering.
- Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- She shot me a glance before turning her back.
- Completely unprepared.
- The speaker went in and floundered for a topic.
| | collar |
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noun
- The part of a shirt or jacket that fits around the neck and throat.
- A similar detachable item
- Anything that encircles the neck.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain the animal and/or for identification.
- Make sure your dog has a holding an identification tag.
- See also a Wikipedia article on (w, horse collar).
- A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of the draft animal.
- (context, technology) Any encircling device or structure.
- A nylon kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
- (context, in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions; see -collar.
verb
- (transitive) To place a collar on.
- Collar and leash your dog.
- To seize or detain.
- To arrest.
- (transitive) To bind in conversation.
- I managed to Fred in the office yesterday.
| | collector |
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noun
- A person or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- He is an avid of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust .
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax .
- (context, electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
| | compact |
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noun
- An agreement or contract.
verb
- (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
adjective
- Closely packed.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- (topology) close, Closed and bounded; having a finite subcover for every open cover.
| | converter |
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noun
- A person or thing that converts.
| | cope |
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verb (copes, coping, coped)
- To deal effectively with something difficult, (often cope with)
- To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
| | coupon |
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noun
- (obsolete) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
- (finance) Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon).
- A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
Supplemental Details: coupon - Noun
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Usage: “I paid less than a $1 for that catsup, I had a $2 off coupon that I used at the store.”
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noun
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
- (context, publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- (context, materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- (context, informal, pejorative) An annoying irritating person
- (context, informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.
- Stop following me, you !
verb (creeps, creeping, crept or creeped, crept, creeped, or archaic cropen)
- (transitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
- (transitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- (transitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- He tried to past the guard without being seen.
- (transitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- Prices have been creeping up all year.
| | crimp |
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noun
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- The strap was held together by a simple metal .
- (obsolete): A coal broker. Provincial England
- (obsolete): One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
- (obsolete): A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
- (usually in plural): A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- (obsolete): A game at cards.
verb
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- He crimped the wire in place.
- To style hair into a crimp.
adjective
- (obsolete): Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- (obsolete): Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
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noun - (context, chemistry) A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
- A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.
- A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process.
| | crucible steel |
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noun
- a high-grade steel, used in tools and dies, originally made by fusing wrought iron and charcoal in a crucible
| | cry |
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noun (cri, es)
- A shedding of tears.
- After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.
- A shout or scream.
- I heard a cry from afar.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- a battle cry
- (context, collectively) A group of hounds.
verb (cr, i, ed)
- (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
- That sad movie always makes me .
- (intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
- The captured bear cub tried to out to its mother.
- (transitive) To shout, scream (words).
| | cupola |
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noun (pl2=cupolae)
- (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
| | cyanide |
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noun
- (chemistry) (countable) Any compound containing the -C�N radical or the C�N-1 anion.
- (uncountable) potassium cyanide - a water soluble poison
- (uncountable) hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas - a poisonous gas
| | cyanide process |
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noun - A method of extracting gold and silver from their ores with a solution of sodium cyanide
- A process of case-hardening iron or steel by immersing it in molten cyanide and then quenching in water or oil
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