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noun
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from
verb
- The removal of the part of the head from where the hair grows, by brutal act or accident.
- (context, slang) To sell for a greatly inflated price to those in desperation, as in scalping tickets to a ball game.
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noun (pl2=scapulae)
- (context, anatomy) Either of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder.
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noun
- an escutcheon
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proper noun
- (constellation) A small autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a shield. It lies between the constellations of Aquila, Sagittarius, and the tail of Serpens.
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noun
- (economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.
- Hair care is a industry.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- This machine provides the name for the LAN.
- The military.
- I did three years in the before coming here.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- She brought out the silver tea .
- The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- The player had four faults in the set.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- The funeral was touching.
- The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- The happened yesterday.
- (public service) that which is provided by the Government or its agents
- The Job Centre provides a to the unemployed.
- (religion) Doing something for someone else without thought of reward or payment.
verb (servic, ing)
- to serve
- They the customer base.
- to perform maintenance
- He is going to the car.
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adjective
- (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "an attached oyster"
- (botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervene, intervening stalk; "a sessile leaf"
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noun
- the long narrow body of a spear or arrow
- a beam or ray of light
- any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the drive shaft of an engine
- the main axis of a feather
- (lacrosse) the long narrow body of a lacrosse stick
- a long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc
- a vertical passage housing a lift or elevator
- a ventilation or heating conduit
- a malicious act, as in "to give someone the shaft"
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noun
- The lower part of the leg; shin.
- meat, Meat from that part of an animal.
- A straight, narrow part of an object; shaft; stem
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece of the bit, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached
- (sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. See thin,fat,toe
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon
- (slang) Bad.
verb
- (archaic) To travel on foot
- (slang) To stab
adjective
- bad, Bad.
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noun
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; it is especially used as a term to refer to the elytra of a beetle.
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noun
- A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal:
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
- A pod.
- The hard covering of an egg.
- The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.
- The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
- Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
- (plural: ) An artillery projectile or charge case:
- A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuze or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.
- The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
- (garment) A top, usually worn by women, with short or no sleeves that fastens, if it does, in the rear.
- A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
- (music) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
- A drum shell; the usually wooden, cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and attaching drum heads.
- (computing) A general-purpose environment, usually CLI, command-line-oriented, within which other commands are invoked and their interactions controlled.
- (context, chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
verb
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
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noun
- (Armor) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
- Quotations
- 1599: Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. — William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III, Scene II, line 8.
- 1786: The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22.
- Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
- Quotations
- 1592: Go muster men. My counsel is my shield; We must be brief when traitors brave the field. — William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 4, Scene 3, line 56.
- Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
- Quotations
- 1611: Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. The Holy Bible, King James Version, Genesis 15:1.
- (botany) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
- (heraldry) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
- (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- (mining) (Mining) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
- Bespotted as with shields of red and black. Spenser.
- (obsolete) A coin, the old French crown, or écu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
- (scifi) A field of energy which protects or defends.
- (colloquial) A police badge
- Quotations
- The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's . http://www.michaelconnelly.com/Book_Collection/Closers/ClosersExcerpt/closersexcerpt.html
- (transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
verb
- To protect, to defend.
- 2004: w: Chris Wallace (journalist), Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- :Shots rang out and a 15-year-old boy, shielding a woman from the line of fire, was killed.
- (electricity) to protect from the influence of
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noun
- The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
verb (shinn, ing)
- To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up.
- to up a mast
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noun
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding area.
- have broad shoulders
- A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder (UK)
- He stopped the car on the of the highway to change the flat tire.
verb
- (context, transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- (context, transitive) To carry (something) on one's shoulders.
- (context, figurative, transitive) To accept responsibility for.
- shoulder the blame
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adjective
- Having a flattened beak or snout.
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adjective
- Of or relating to apes.
- Bearing resemblance to an ape.
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noun
- (context, jargon, medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
adjective (simpler, simplest)
- having few parts or features; having no special features
- (colloquial) feeble-minded.
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noun
- a bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, used to move liquid from one reservoir to another.
- a soda siphon
- (biology) a tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.
verb
- to use a siphon for moving a liquid.
- He used a rubber tube to siphon petrol from the car's fuel tank.
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noun
- The long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- ''The pig rooted around in the dirt with its
- The nose of a man, (in contempt).
- His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent .
- The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
- If you place the right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
verb to snout
- To furnish with a nozzle or point.
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noun
- A festive gathering to foster introductions.
- (context, UK, slang) Short for social security benefit, the UK government department responsible for administering such welfare benefit or its employees.
- Fred hated going down to the to sign on.
- (context, US) Short for Social Security Number.
- What's your ?
adjective
- Being extroverted or outgoing
- Needing (nearly) constant human interaction
- related to society
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noun - One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.
adjective - Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.
- Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.
- Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
- Not associated with others of the same kind.
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noun
- A female pig.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- (derogatory slang) A contemptible woman.
verb (sows, sowing, sowed, sown)
- (transitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
- I needed to sow the field, so I sowed the field, and when I had sown the field, I was happy.
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noun (spawn)
- offspring
verb
- to bring something into being, especially in large numbers
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noun (spicula)
- A sharp, pointed crystal, especially of ice.
- (zoology) A sharp, needle-like structure, especially those making up the skeleton of a sponge.
- (astronomy) A small radial emission of gas seen in the chromosphere and corona of the sun.
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noun
- A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
- Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- An ear of grain.
- (context, botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (context, zoology) An adolescent male deer.
verb (spik, ing)
- To put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (military) To hammer an iron spike into the touch hole so as to render a gun unusable.
- He jumped down, wrenched the hammer from the armourer"s hand, and seizing a nail from the bag, in a few moments he had spiked the gun. " w:Frederick Marryat, Frederick Marryat, "Peter Simple", 1834
- (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public.
- October 14, 2002, Jonathan Sale, The Guardian, Edward VIII news blackout.
- :Instead, the "Beaver" declared he would the story about Wallis Simpson and make sure his fellow media moguls sat on it too.
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noun
- A person or thing's backbone; the series of bones collectively from one's (literal or figurative) head to tail or pelvis.
- A rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
- A metaphor, Metaphor for courage or assertiveness, alluding to the backbone
- The narrow, bound edge of a book.
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adjective
- Having no spine
- uncourageous
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adjective
- Having a spine or spines.
- Terminating in a spine.
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adjective (spin, ier)
- covered in spines or thorns
- troublesome; difficult or vexing
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noun - A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
- A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
- A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
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noun
- The longish piece that supports the seed-carrying parts of a plant
verb
- to approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer
- to (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment
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noun
- One who displays stigmata, the five wounds of Christ; St. Francis of Assisi being the first.
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noun
- A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
- A bite by an insect.
- A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
- A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
- A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
- A brief sequence of music used in films & TV as a form of punctuation in a dramatic or comedic scene.
verb (stings, stinging, stang or stung, stung)
- To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point.
- Right so came out an adder of a little heathbush, and it stung a knight in the foot.
- Still, it stung when a slightly older acquaintance asked me why I couldn't do any better.
- Of an insect, to bite.
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noun (wikipedia, FIM-92 Stinger)
- a portable infra-red homing surface-to-air missile
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noun
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Farm animals (short form of livestock)
- (also rolling stock) Railroad cars.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- The axle into which the rudder is attached (rudder stock); it transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (uncountable) Broth made from meat or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- The books were printed on a heavier this year.
- A wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
verb
- To have on hand for sale.
- The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
adjective
- Normally available for purchase.
- stock items
- stock sizes
- Straightforward, plain, very basic
- That band is quite stock
- He gave me a stock answer
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noun
- A (usually marked) place where line buses or trams halt to let passengers get on and off.
- They agreed to see each other at the bus .
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- That was not planned.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
- (context, linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'.
- (context, music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
- (context, tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- (context, zoology) The depression in a dog"s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- The in a bulldog's face is very marked.
verb (stop, p, ed)
- (intransitive): To cease moving.
- I stopped at the traffic lights.
- (intransitive): To come to an end.
- The riots stopped when police moved in.
- Soon the rain will .
- (transitive): To cause (something) to cease moving.
- The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
- (transitive): To cause (something) to come to an end.
- The referees stopped the fight.
- (transitive): To close an aperture.
- He stopped the wound with gauze.
- (intransitive): To stay a while.
- He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
- (intransitive): To tarry.
- He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
adverb
- prone, Prone to halting or hesitation.
- He -started his car.
- He"s still.
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noun
- A manner of doing things, especially in a fashionable one.
- (botany) the stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
verb (styl, ing)
- To create or give a style, fashion or image
- To call or give a name or title
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noun
- A person or thing that sucks
- An organ or body part that does the sucking
- Animals such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs
- A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollypop
- (context, horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
verb
- To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
- The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.
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noun (plural: swallowtails)
- the forked tail of a swallow.
- anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.
- a type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.
- any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, having a forked extension to the hind wing.
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adjective - Having a tail that is forked like a swallow's.
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noun
- A device to turn electric current turn on, on and turn off, off or direct its flow.
- (context, railroading, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; point.
- A thin rod used as a whip.
- (computer science) A CLI, command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (Telephony) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
verb (switch, es)
- (transitive) To exchange.
- I want to this red dress for a green one.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- Switch the light on.
- (transitive) To hit with a switch (rod).
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- I want to to a different seat.
- (slang) (intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
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