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noun ((plural): back roads)
- Secondary roads, little used roads, roads through rural areas sometimes used as alternate routes to main roads.
- There was too much traffic on the highway, so I used a , it was very scenic but I had to keep the speed down.
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noun - (vehicles) Four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
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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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proper noun
- The capital city of Germany.
- One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
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noun
- A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider"s feet upon pedals.
- A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.
- The best possible hand in lowball.
verb (bicycl, es)
- To travel or exercise using a bicycle.
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noun
- Something that blinks, as the turn signal of an automobile.
- A blinder for horses; a bridle flap to limit side view, whatever obstructs sight or discernment: q:Matthew Green, WikiQuote?
- (rare) eyelid, Eyelid.
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noun (bodies)
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- The is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- A corpse.
- Her was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremity, extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- The boxer took a blow to the .
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessory, accessories.
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the of the car was in remarkable shape.
- (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the of her new dress.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- The local train operating company is the managing for this section of track.
- A group of men or people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- I was escorted from the building by a of armed security guards.
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- We have now amassed a of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- Any physical object or material thing.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- Substance; physical presence.
- We have given to what was just a vague idea.
- Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- The rioja, sadly, lacked .
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.W:Subroutine, W
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noun (plural: broughams)
- a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers.
- 1891: "Yes," he continued, glancing out of the window. "A nice little and a pair of beauties." " Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Scandal In Bohemia" (Norton 2005 p.12)
- an automobile, a sedan without a roof over driver's seat.
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noun
- A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-pulled wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
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noun (buggies)
- A small horse-drawn cart.
- A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
- (colloquial) A shopping cart or trolley.
adjective
- Infested with insects.
- (computing) Containing programming errors.
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noun
- size, mass or volume
- the major part of something
- (in food) fibre
- (nautical) a ship's cargo
- (bodybuilding): excess body mass, especially muscle
- In brane cosmology, a hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
verb
- to be, or appear to be, massive
- to grow in size; to swell or expand
adjective
- being large in size, mass or volume
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noun (pl=buses, pl2=busses)
- (context, automotive, vehicle) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
- An electrical conductor serving as a common connection for two or more circuits.
verb (busses or buses, bussing or busing, bussed or bused)
- (context, transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
- (context, transitive, automotive, transport) To transport students to school, often to achieve racial integration.
- (context, intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
abbreviation bus.
- business
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noun (bypasses)
- a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
- a circumvention
- a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
- an electrical shunt
- (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
verb (bypass, es)
- to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
- to ignore the usual channels or procedures
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noun
- a road that is not frequently travelled
- (context, by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study
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