Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
custard
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
custard pie
milk/custard etc powder (=a powder that you add water to in order to change it into a liquid)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
pie
▪ He is the perfect recipient of the custard pie.
▪ I am looking for a diet custard pie recipe made with farina.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was a strawberry cake or a custard cake.
▪ Mix the lemon juice and vanilla essence with the custard.
▪ Place over boiling water and stir until the mixture resembles a custard.
▪ Pour custard over chocolate and croissants, dividing equally.
▪ Pour the custard over the top and bake for about 30-40 minutes until the custard is golden brown.
▪ Strain custard through fine-mesh strainer into second large mixing bowl.
▪ Swirl this mixture over the custard.
▪ The lowest tier on the tea tray holds four glass containers of jams and custard and the promise of scones to come.
gen
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyway, that was all background gen.
II.verbEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyway, as everything's now finalised, I can gen you up properly.
safety pin
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Heating an implement made of a straightened safety pin, he speared the bugs, then brought them to the candle flame.
▪ I love those ones where there's a piece of cloth just with a safety pin or something like that.
▪ Later the gadget acquired a popular name - the safety pin - and made some one else very rich.
▪ The maroon dress was neatly folded, and the coral necklace carefully pinned to the bodice with a large safety pin.
drawer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desk drawer
▪ I think I left my car keys in the desk drawer.
bottom drawer
chest of drawers
the bottom drawer/shelf
▪ My passport’s in the bottom drawer of my desk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bottom
▪ The other women hadn't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes.
▪ He reached toward the bottom right-hand drawer.
▪ Black's hand found the bottom drawer, and the bottle.
▪ The bottom drawer was pulled out and empty.
▪ The bottom drawer of her desk proved to be locked, with no sign of a key.
▪ I sat in my bedroom and slipped the scrapbook out of the bottom drawer.
▪ The baby slept in the bottom drawer of the dresser: the kitten had a feather cushion.
▪ Johnnie found the tacks in the bottom drawer and, whirling on her heels, marched out of the kitchen.
small
▪ All we took from our own home was a dressing table and a small chest of drawers.
▪ The box, itself, is a treasure because it has a hinged lid and a very small drawer.
▪ This small chest of drawers is an ideal container.
▪ Molly had stood beside him and had pointed out one particularly small drawer close by the door.
▪ It is like having a large array of small drawers containing electronic components.
top
▪ The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
▪ She opened the top drawer of her desk.
▪ Climbing off his mattress Gimmelmann went to the top drawer of his dresser and took out a file.
▪ He pulled open the top drawer beneath.
▪ The key was in the top drawer, neatly labelled.
▪ McWilliams' two wins in the Superbike races were both top drawer performances.
▪ Spare house and garage keys in the top right hand drawer of Charles's desk.
▪ Theodora had found the spare vestry key, neatly labelled, in the top right-hand drawer of Charles Julian's desk.
■ NOUN
cutlery
▪ The pull-out cutlery drawer can be lifted out for easy unloading.
▪ He wedged the knife upright in the cutlery drawer while jamming it shut with one knee.
▪ I tell you what, while you're on your feet, get me the cutlery drawer out and the metal polish.
desk
▪ Or at a pinch he might be able to squeeze himself into the desk drawer and hide.
▪ He kept a gun in his desk drawer at the office and one night I took it out and shot him.
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
▪ Keep the paper in a desk drawer or folder.
▪ Taking his magnifying glass from a desk drawer, he fell upon the plans and scrutinized each one intently without speaking.
▪ Notebooks filled margin to margin with my tiny scrawl spill out-of the desk drawers.
▪ There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
▪ Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
dresser
▪ She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons.
▪ When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
▪ In the dresser drawer was a freshly severed hand, all bloody at the roots.
▪ She was for ever running to ransack her crowded dresser drawers, rummaging in her sewing box as she made high-pitched excited noises.
▪ Anne took a tea-towel from the dresser drawer.
▪ They kept it in their dresser drawer until the police took it away.
▪ He opens a dresser drawer and picks out a cheap hairbrush, then a pharmacy bottle containing a single capsule of Prozac.
kitchen
▪ Her daughters would giggle over the odd doodles they found in kitchen drawers or on the back shelf of the downstairs toilet.
▪ He opened it, after sorting through the kitchen drawers for a corkscrew with an assurance that annoyed Fabio.
▪ Recently, I found a roll of undeveloped film in a kitchen drawer.
▪ It is somewhere in the kitchen drawer with the 60-watt bulbs.
▪ I then removed every knife and sharp instrument from the kitchen drawer.
▪ He was about to call Bodie when he noticed a small white writing pad in the opened kitchen drawer.
sock
▪ He made piles of quarters in his sock drawer when he emptied his pockets at night.
■ VERB
close
▪ He did, smirking as he closed the drawer again.
▪ When he turned round, Lee was closing the drawer in his desk.
find
▪ Dominic sorted through the steely shapes in the table drawer until he found the bread-knife.
▪ I pat down coat pockets, dig through backpacks and open drawers until I find it.
▪ Amongst the assorted contents of the other drawers she found another small box.
▪ But then in another drawer you find something maybe even more useful.
▪ Finally, hidden under a guide to hotel services in the desk drawer, we found a loose-leaf binder with instructions.
▪ It was again the bottom drawer in which he found most of interest.
keep
▪ MacQuillan's copy was kept in a locked drawer of his desk.
▪ What some one kept in a bedside drawer.
▪ At first people kept their drawers on, then they'd lower them.
lock
▪ The receptionist took my money and locked it in a drawer of the desk, then stood up.
▪ Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
▪ Another man there taught me how to open a locked drawer.
▪ There was a locked drawer in the desk in the den, so it was the one I opened first.
▪ Then, just to show off, I took out my picks and locked the drawer after myself.
open
▪ She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons.
▪ He next heard her walking very rapidly in her bedroom, shoeless, but thumping quickly, opening closets and drawers.
▪ He began opening the drawers of his desk in an unhurried way, looking for something.
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
▪ She opened a sofa table drawer.
▪ Another man there taught me how to open a locked drawer.
pull
▪ She pulled open a drawer to drop the note in.
▪ He pulled open the top drawer beneath.
▪ He pulled out the top drawer of the desk, where lined in rows were a dozen paper tubes.
▪ The little boy had lost interest and started pulling open the drawers of the dressing-table.
▪ He pulled out drawer after drawer, his frenzy building with each new revelation of supposedly missing clothes.
▪ I pulled the whole drawer out and checked along the back.
put
▪ The dress was put in a drawer, unfinished but not forgotten about.
▪ Just put them in his drawer?
▪ He finished shaving, wrapped his razor in a towel and put it in his drawer.
▪ He took down the picture of Uncle John and put it in the drawer of his desk.
▪ I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer.
reach
▪ He had already reached into a drawer and pulled out two index cards.
▪ When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
▪ I reached in my top drawer for the telephone book and hauled it out.
rummage
▪ Some one had rummaged through the drawer.
▪ Then he let her rummage through his desk drawers, rearranging them however she liked.
▪ I rummaged through my drawer for his key.
shut
▪ He opened and shut the drawers and the flap and found what he expected.
▪ He made as if to shut the drawer, saw the gun and hesitated.
take
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
▪ She went to her desk and opened a drawer from which she took a couple of bank notes.
▪ They kept it in their dresser drawer until the police took it away.
▪ Philip opened his desk drawer to take the medals out and look at them again.
▪ When the drawer was open she took out a large square package wrapped in newspaper and held it out for him.
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out the remote-control gadget and clicked the set to life.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shut sth in the door/drawer etc
shut the door/drawer etc on sth
▪ Come in, lads, come in and shut the door on the fog.
▪ Even so, Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility.
▪ Everyone has been going for national contracts and that has shut the door on the small company.
▪ It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze.
▪ Madeleine grimaced after she'd shut the door on him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A white petticoat, black stockings and white drawers lay over outer clothes.
▪ From the hardware drawer in the kitchen I equipped myself with a hammer, a chisel, and a mean-looking screwdriver.
▪ He finished shaving, wrapped his razor in a towel and put it in his drawer.
▪ He glanced up as she came in and swept everything back into the drawer.
▪ He next heard her walking very rapidly in her bedroom, shoeless, but thumping quickly, opening closets and drawers.
▪ He reached toward the bottom right-hand drawer.
▪ I continued my search, working with delicacy, leaving the contents of each drawer undisturbed.
▪ In the centre of the desk, above the leg space, was a thin drawer he had overlooked.
stabbing
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shooting/stabbing incident (=when someone is shot or stabbed)
▪ Two men died today in a shooting incident.
a stabbing pain (=sharp and sudden)
▪ Marcus heard a shot and felt a stabbing pain at the back of his ankle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another piercing roar, and the stabbing pain of a Darkfall strike.
▪ Killed by a stranger: Student admits stabbing tutor.
▪ There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fatal
▪ The campaign came in response to a spate of fatal stabbings and involved extra police officers being drafted in to patrol late-night trouble spots.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A stabbing brought in the police one night.
▪ In 1985, at a court in Birmingham, a similar stabbing happened and procedures were stepped up.
▪ Recourse to stabbing is at least potentially more open to abuse.
▪ Some knives have sharp edges for slashing, others have points for stabbing, and some can do both.
▪ The stabbings occurred just one night after two homeless men were stabbed several times while they slept only a few blocks away.
▪ They are the victims of auto accidents, industrial accidents, falls from cliffs, fires, fights, stabbings, shootings.
central nervous system
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cadmium is a heavy metal and it is known to attack the central nervous system.
▪ Even so the activity of the whole animal is co-ordinated by superordinate controls in the central nervous system.
▪ First, since nicotine is a central nervous system stimulant, it produces almost the same effects on the body as caffeine.
▪ It might be supposed that tremor was the consequence of a fixed-point attractor to periodic attractor transition of central nervous system neurones.
▪ NeuroSearch researches the development of products for the treatment of diseases of the central nervous system.
▪ Rarely, the central nervous system may be involved.
▪ Such lipid accumulation frequently leads to mental retardation or progressive loss of central nervous system functions.
▪ The nerve impulses in these specialised fibres enter the central nervous system and provoke: A. Local reflexes in muscles.
clarinet
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bass
▪ His particular specialism was the bass clarinet.
▪ The B flat lies an octave below the bass clarinet.
■ VERB
play
▪ She likes skating, writing letters, reading and playing the clarinet.
▪ My oldest sister Sally played the clarinet for a long time, and was modestly successful.
▪ Before becoming a guitarist he played clarinet and uses advanced technology to approximate the breathy sound of a wind instrument.
▪ I really wanted to play that clarinet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A clarinet was in his hands.
▪ His boots are laced up like a clarinet with knotted string.
▪ It also doubles violas or cellos with good effect and blends well with low or lowish clarinets.
▪ She likes skating, writing letters, reading and playing the clarinet.
▪ That could not be said of the hectic, driven finale, marred by some rancid clarinet contributions.
▪ The same remarks apply to the combination of flutes and clarinets.
▪ The worldly-wise orchestrator will rather see to it that there is not an important clarinet part in the aforesaid section.
▪ We have already pointed out that clarinets in unison with high trumpets give them increased roundness of tone and certainty of attack.
net
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gross/net expenditure (=the total amount a company spends before/after any tax or costs have been taken away)
▪ Spending on research and development represents 13% of our gross expenditure.
landing net
mosquito net
net earnings (=after tax has been paid)
▪ The company’s net earnings have fallen over the last two years.
net exporter of fuel (=it exports more fuel than it imports)
▪ With the expanded production of North Sea oil and gas, the UK has become a net exporter of fuel.
net gain
▪ The Democratic Party needed a net gain of only 20 votes.
net income (=income after you have paid tax)
▪ He was left with a net income of just £80 per week.
net profit (=after tax and costs are paid)
▪ The company made a net profit of $10.5 million.
safety net
▪ State support should provide a safety net for the very poor.
the net result (=the final result)
▪ The net result of fewer officers on the street was rising crime.
velvet/net/lace etc curtains (=made of velvet, net etc)
wire netting
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
empty
▪ Apanage deftly drew the bottle away from the empty net and inserted a magical cork into its neck.
▪ Two minutes after the interval good work by McAvennie allowed McStay to round Paul Mathers and shoot into an empty net.
▪ His teasing cross tempted Paul Robinson off his line and left an empty net for Dwight Yorke to stoop and head in.
▪ Butler's shot into an empty net was consolation for an earlier effort that struck the bar.
fishing
▪ I had a fishing net with me and carefully fished it out.
▪ Others die from entanglement in fishing nets.
▪ Nobody suspected that a significant proportion of the small population was being caught and killed each year in fishing nets.
▪ As the particles catch Lucifer's magnetic field, it is extended into space like a fishing net caught by the tide.
▪ Speed boats and fishing nets also need to be kept out of the area.
neural
▪ For neural nets and genetic algorithms, it is not so much fallible as crude.
▪ Abstract ideas became focused as he pulled together previous work on neural nets.
▪ Any learning neural net explores a space in which each state is described by a large set of simple parameters.
▪ One could conclude that neural nets love to do pattern classification.
▪ Training sets are typically large, for any kind of neural net.
▪ Subsequent Analysis: The 34 test results showed several close calls by operators that were unquestionably classified by the neural net.
▪ I am grateful to Teresa Ludermir who introduced me to it, and to logical neural nets.
▪ Unlike less sophisticated Al, neural nets do not require that elaborate rule structures be specified in advance.
semantic
▪ Detecting patterns in a large, complex semantic net is difficult to do without the aid of computer programs.
▪ The semantic net of remedial was expanding and expanding.
▪ In the bottom-up approach the paragraphs are first collected, and the semantic net is built as the paragraphs are indexed.
▪ Rough notes may be entered and do not need to be attached to the semantic net.
▪ To build and maintain a semantic net, indexing of paragraphs and semantic net construction go hand-in-hand.
▪ The purpose of the semantic net is to give people an overview of or handle on the content of the text.
▪ A semantic net lends itself to graphic display, and its meaning tends to be intuitively, if not formally, clear.
▪ The role of the semantic net is being explored in this new environment.
social
▪ They are a fundamental part of the social safety net and have kept the poverty rate among the elderly relatively low.
▪ In a time when there was no social safety net, a fourth of all workers were unemployed.
▪ The focus of the so-called reform is to decentralize social safety net programs, transferring money and jurisdiction to the 50 states.
wide
▪ One possibility seems to be that s.61 was intended to cast a wider net of liability than s.62.
▪ They subsequently directed their personnel officials to cast a wider net when searching for potential employees.
▪ The Contempt of Court Act 1991 spreads a wider net over everyone who reports or handles news.
▪ The network has to cast a wide net for this talent.
▪ A wide net helps to prevent this happening and also allows the fish to turn round if they want to.
▪ Man and algae sealed in the capsule divorced themselves from the wide net woven by the rest of life.
■ NOUN
drift
▪ The decision coincided with reports that at least four Cornish skippers had recently bought drift nets of up to four miles long.
▪ Sea World freed three gray whales in 1988 which had been tangled in drift nets.
▪ For many years the use of drift nets on the high seas has been banned altogether.
▪ In 1988 Sea World freed three gray whales that had become tangled in drift nets.
▪ He rejected claims by environmentalists that drift nets led to overfishing.
effect
▪ The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government.
▪ The net effect is thus to balance and harmonize the energy flow.
▪ If both good and bad effects apply to the whole body, the net effect can still be good for the body.
gain
▪ By 1989, there were 3,000 -a net gain of 1,200 in office functions, retailing and small firms in nursery workshops.
income
▪ Are your monthly credit payments more than 15-20 percent of your net income, excluding rent or mortgage?
▪ So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more.
▪ Also, some people do deals on the net income.
▪ Over the period 1979-1987, the average total net income of this group rose by 31%.
landing
▪ My chair and everything apart from the rod, landing net and loaf, are left up the bank.
▪ As the trout began to tire, I fumbled for the landing net.
▪ They got their rods and landing nets together and set off for home.
▪ Then I fetch my rod, landing net, loaf and rod-rest.
▪ Use a large landing net, somewhat larger than the size of fish you hope to catch.
▪ You need only one landing net, one keepnet, one set of scales, etc. if you fish close to each other.
loss
▪ Receipts were down from £1,406 to £863 and a net loss of £160 on the year was returned.
mosquito
▪ There are two entrances both with mosquito nets.
▪ A mosquito net was providentially suspended above the bed; the creek was certain to be thick with insects when night fell.
▪ There are also two inner pockets and a mosquito net in each door.
▪ No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net.
▪ To protect people from being bitten they must be educated and persuaded to use insect repellents and mosquito nets.
▪ I lay under my mosquito net and waited.
▪ Both inner doors have mosquito nets at each end and the headroom inside the tent is excellent.
▪ Apparently no one ever thought of using mosquito nets.
profit
▪ Your net profit is 5 percent on sales.
▪ The amount that is left after the retailer has paid his overheads is called net profit.
▪ The group had a net profit margin of 30% last year.
▪ Between 1979 and 1982 there was a reduction in farm net profit of almost 44%.
result
▪ Furthermore, simple measurements of sediment at a point represent only the net result of all the processes going on upstream.
▪ The net result is the concentration of effective power in the hands of the government.
▪ The net result is that, however one mixes the energy cake, carbon dioxide emissions go on increasing.
▪ The net result of Honderich's weakness as an historian of ideas is that his book slips into confusion.
▪ The net result is that the total energy return is less than the input.
safety
▪ The big entitlement programs should be privatized, he says, leaving only a low safety net for the indigent.
▪ The Endangered Species Act is a safety net that comes into play when other environmental and conservation laws have failed.
▪ Two-wheel drive gives better stability and traction in all conditions, but just as importantly is a powerful psychological safety net.
▪ However, States said the new program is providing a better safety net for the drought-plagued wheat growers of the Great Plains.
▪ The material researchers provide makes a great safety net.
▪ They are a fundamental part of the social safety net and have kept the poverty rate among the elderly relatively low.
▪ It now looks as if that safety net is never going to be needed.
▪ Two factors form a reliable safety net for the F-22 program: The Air Force really, really wants it.
worth
▪ In most economies the bulk of net worth is attributable to the personal sector, i.e. private individuals.
■ VERB
buy
▪ The decision coincided with reports that at least four Cornish skippers had recently bought drift nets of up to four miles long.
▪ Then you would make enough to buy nylon nets.
cast
▪ But this festival casts its net beyond the musical world.
▪ They subsequently directed their personnel officials to cast a wider net when searching for potential employees.
▪ One possibility seems to be that s.61 was intended to cast a wider net of liability than s.62.
▪ The network has to cast a wide net for this talent.
▪ It is clearly possible that we are not casting our net sufficiently wide.
▪ I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
catch
▪ Burglary - where it's reckoned that a only tiny proportion are ever caught - nets £590 million.
▪ The symbolism was extended to the gorge itself Blondin had literally caught it in his net.
▪ This is because most of the fish is caught in double nets by the motor boats and ships.
▪ I catch them in my net.
▪ Every one that hits the net ought to be caught - provided the net has been set properly.
▪ The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.
▪ Abraham is caught in Ephron's net.
▪ Built circa 1880, bits drop off the outside and have to be caught in a wire net hung over the door.
fish
▪ The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.
▪ These are floats, blown from bottle glass, and used to hold up fishing nets.
▪ There were many anchored wooden boats with large outboard motors, but strangely, there were few fishing nets.
▪ I thought about my brother, when I broke that fishing net.
▪ The harbour porpoise is vulnerable to drowning in fishing nets.
▪ His dock was strewn with beer cans, oil drums, fishing nets.
pay
▪ Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.
▪ But the ability to pay for safety nets is just one of the social effects of having an educated population.
▪ Term accounts are no longer offered by the society, but the share account is now paying only 1.88 p.c. net.
provide
▪ It can provide a safety net for children in danger as well as for those who have socially or emotionally lost their way.
▪ However, States said the new program is providing a better safety net for the drought-plagued wheat growers of the Great Plains.
▪ The government's starting point with regard to block funding was that they would not provide a safety net.
set
▪ It is easiest if the man carrying the stake walks behind the net and the man setting the net walks in front of it.
▪ All around us small fishing boats were wheeling and stopping as they set and retrieved nets.
▪ These men and women work through the night, hauling in the fish, then setting out their nets again.
slip
▪ Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net.
▪ No one knows how many have slipped through the net.
▪ Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net.
▪ Alan Garcia, Fujimori's predecessor, slipped the net.
▪ Her foot slipped suddenly through the net.
▪ This one slipped through the net.
▪ Paul Merton slipped through the net.
▪ Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net.
spread
▪ Conversation was desultory for we were all exhausted though Mandeville declared that tomorrow he would spread his net.
▪ It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater.
▪ The Contempt of Court Act 1991 spreads a wider net over everyone who reports or handles news.
▪ Furse spread his net wide, but it did not sink deep.
surf
▪ We give them quizzes on Britain and allow them to surf the net.
use
▪ As the Rattlesnake beat across the seas, Huxley trawled for specimens of sea creatures using an improvised net.
▪ A rarely used volleyball net stood lonely in the dirt and weeds.
▪ Only 12 types of links were used in the semantic net that supported the final draft of the Hypertext book.
▪ A February 1989 Fortune article reported that Ford, for example, was using neural nets to spot faulty paint finishes.
▪ Apparently no one ever thought of using mosquito nets.
▪ Coracles using nets were banned from the Wye in the twenties.
▪ Wilfrid followed this up by teaching the people how to use nets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Net/Internet/Web surfer
▪ Netscape hooked millions of web surfers on Navigator by letting them have it for free.
▪ Online newspapers: Web surfers are showing strong interest in online news.
▪ Relatively few sites are so compelling that Web surfers make it a point to visit every day.
cast your net (far and) wide
▪ I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
▪ We cast our net wider and in a different direction.
crawl the Net/web
slip through the net
▪ Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net.
▪ Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net.
▪ In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
▪ No one knows how many have slipped through the net.
▪ Paul Merton slipped through the net.
▪ Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net.
▪ This one slipped through the net.
surf the Net/Internet
▪ A recent survey shows that about half of all users surf the Net from their homes.
▪ At the other end of the spectrum is the so-called Internet appliance, the very low-cost device for just surfing the Net.
▪ It was the year of spinoffs, surging financial markets and surfing the Net.
▪ So a user could be surfing the Net at warp speed while talking on the phone.
▪ Surveys show millions of workers use their office computers to play games, surf the Net or worse.
▪ That means you can surf the Net and talk on the phone at the same time over one line.
▪ We give them quizzes on Britain and allow them to surf the net.
▪ Who spends an inordinate number of work hours surfing the Internet?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a fishing net
▪ The bride wore a veil made of ivory net.
▪ The puck went straight into the net.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the production line stand basketball nets and ping-pong tables for use during breaks.
▪ Clips for fixing and joining the nets are available from some cage and netting manufacturers.
▪ Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net.
▪ If intervention remains, it should be reduced to the original concept of a safety net for use in extreme emergencies.
▪ It swipes the underside of the net.
▪ Mosquito netting: inner door flaps can be unzipped independently from the net.
▪ Nicholas Branch has unpublished state documents, polygraph reports, Dictabelt recordings from the police radio net on November 22.
▪ The fishermen will have to use turtle excluder devices in their nets, which allow turtles to escape before they drown.
II.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ These would spend a larger proportion of their incomes and so net savings would be reduced.
■ NOUN
asset
▪ Unit trusts are permitted to operate a spread as wide as 15 percent of the net asset value of the fund.
▪ It is the price of the bonds that determines the net asset value of bond funds.
▪ Launch costs are capped at 3.5 percent, giving a net asset value after launch of 96.5 percent of gross proceeds.
▪ This may be particularly important in service industries where there may be limited net asset backing.
▪ It continues to place strong emphasis on tight cost controls and has seen net assets rise 14% to £26.9m.
▪ A pro-forma statement of the combined companies' net assets was £294m.
▪ Prices based on a multiple of earnings tend to require more detailed and thorough completion accounts than net asset value based prices.
▪ Stock analysts have written down the bank's net asset value by a correspondingly precise sum.
benefit
▪ Ultimately the net benefits from insider dealing must equal the net losses.
▪ This study finds evidence for net benefits for all the member states.
▪ There would be no net benefit to training.
cash
▪ In other words, it is the rate that equates future net cash flows to the initial investment outlay.
▪ Total inflows minus total outflows results in the predicted net cash gain or loss during the month.
▪ The Wetherby, Yorkshire company now has £600,000 net cash.
▪ National Medical generated $ 193 million in net cash from operations in 1994.
▪ It was easily affordable: the rights issue last year strengthened the finances and left year end net cash of £77m.
▪ After starting last year with net debt of £6.3m, it now has net cash of almost £4m.
▪ The problem with a high-tech start-up is that you have a net cash outflow.
▪ Despite the costs of launching Carlton Television, the company still has a strong balance sheet, with net cash of £50.3m.
curtain
▪ He walked to the chair and looked through the grubby net curtain.
▪ In all of them hang net curtains.
▪ He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains.
▪ Neighbours had watched discreetly through parted net curtains.
▪ The net curtains were planets of watery growth.
▪ Outside, the once-respectable semis have crooked To Let signs and greying net curtains.
▪ A net curtain stirs at the window, diffusing the sharpness of the outside world.
▪ Beyond the window, a screen whose net curtains looked poised to fall, Karen heard voices.
earnings
▪ In most cases the imputation system ensures that nil and net earnings are the same.
▪ It had net earnings of $ 2. 2 million on sales of $ 32. 3 million last year.
▪ Its reported net earnings are therefore lower than the reported nil earnings of firm A even though its taxable earnings are the same.
▪ Safilo reported net earnings of 312 billion lire in the first nine months of 1995, up 25 percent from 1994.
▪ Farr calculated the contribution of workers to economic growth by estimating the future net earnings of labourers dying at different ages.
effect
▪ The net effect of superimposing habituation on imprinting would be to displace the preference away from the familiar.
▪ In both these cases, the net effect upon equilibrium price will be zero; price will not change.
▪ The net effect of the application of the liberal model for developing work with the unemployed is thus somewhat muted and minimal.
▪ The net effect is to paralyze the organization in the present.
▪ But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance.
▪ Ultimately, the net effect of the Bettelheim uproar was-not much.
▪ The net effect of strategy 2 is to exchange dollars for 1 at the end of the year.
▪ The net effect of all these changes is hard to estimate.
exporter
▪ Areas with the highest levels of unemployment are likely to be net exporters of population.
▪ Hence the country with the lower p will be a net exporter of manufactured products.
gain
▪ A closed system is a system in which there is no net gain or loss of matter in the system.
▪ Between 1989 and 1991, large companies with 500 or more employees contributed a net gain of only 122, 000 jobs.
▪ Society would make a net gain by producing more films.
▪ Florida had a net gain of 127, 180, followed by California with about 61, 000.
▪ In the 1990s, the South had a net gain of 326,000 adult blacks from the rest of the country.
▪ But the Democratic Party needs a net gain of only 20 seats.
▪ There is a net gain to both countries equivalent to areas 2 + 4.
▪ You pay taxes on your share of the net gains achieved by the fund manager.
importer
▪ They expect to be net importers of a variety of items - varying from computers to television programming.
income
▪ I would point out how much better pensioners have done under this Government than under our predecessor in terms of pensioners' net incomes.
▪ That produced net income of $ 126 million, or 37 cents a share.
▪ Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty.
▪ Taking the charge more slowly increases net income and makes a company look more profitable.
▪ Its net income rose to $ 525m from $ 434m a year ago.
▪ This procedure, known as the capitalization of costs, also increases net income.
▪ The conventional view of poverty is based solely on the distribution of net incomes.
▪ An increase in the net income of the wage-earners is therefore assured.
increase
▪ In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism.
▪ Florida and California had the highest net increase of immigrants resettling from one state to another.
▪ In short, the outcome is allocatively inefficient: a rearrangement of resources would produce a net increase in the satisfaction of wants.
▪ With those operations closing, it is not expected to result in a net increase in permanent jobs.
▪ A two-thirds vote would only be required if changes result in a net increase in taxes.
interest
▪ It had net interest income of $ 3. 05 million in the 1994 period.
▪ The net interest charge increased significantly in the second half of the year, reflecting the year's cash outflow.
▪ It received net interest and dividends in the 1990 fiscal year that accounted for more than 20% of its operating profits.
investment
▪ So long as demand stays at 1,000 units, no net investment will take place.
▪ The Accelerator Theory relates net investment to the rate of change of output.
▪ Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3, net investment has remained the same.
▪ Or there's cash flow, the difference between cash income minus net investment, which averages £15,700.
▪ Economic earnings are therefore equal to reported earnings plus new external funds less net investment.
loss
▪ Ultimately the net benefits from insider dealing must equal the net losses.
▪ But the New York-based company continued its string of yearly losses, ending 1995 with a net loss of $ 124 million.
▪ Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time.
▪ Even so-called liberation movements nearly always resulted in net losses for women.
▪ It had a net loss of $ 5. 3 million, or 14 cents a share.
proceeds
▪ CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital.
▪ Foundation treasurer Alan Wilson said net proceeds are about $ 182, 000, with about 11, 000 pairs to sell.
▪ The net proceeds will be used to buy capital equipment, fund leasehold improvements and facilities expansion, and for working capital.
▪ It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
▪ Immediately after issue the amount attributable to an instrument within non-equity shareholders' funds should be the net proceeds of the issue.
▪ The net proceeds from the issue of equity shares and warrants for equity shares should be credited directly to shareholders' funds.
▪ Immediately after issue, debt should be stated at the amount of the net proceeds. 25.
profit
▪ Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94, with zero net profit.
▪ That product line now produces over 20 percent of our net profits.
▪ The balance of the profit and loss account represents the net profit or loss for the accounting period.
▪ For the first nine months of 1991 net profits rose 3 percent to £857m and turnover rose 3 percent to £1545m.
▪ Nestle posted 1994 net profit of 2. 94 billion francs, before items.
▪ Analysts reckon the company's net profit probably halved last year, to around 500 billion lire.
▪ The preliminary figures were below many analysts' predictions of 125 billion in net profit.
receipt
▪ In particular, it is recognised that agents may use some assets as a buffer-stock against unforeseen changes in net receipts.
result
▪ The net result is that the lack of that information results in the application being delayed for many months.
▪ The net result would probably be active combat that could end in a draw.
▪ The net result of these antagonistic effects was that no significant change in soluble calcium was observed.
▪ The net result of war making by way of symbols is to widen the actual gap between luxury and poverty.
▪ The net result, say some officials, is that foreign money has frequently ended up fertilising or irrigating opium fields.
▪ The net result of this change is that return on sales will increase to 11. 9 percent.
▪ The net result is that fewer drugs adapted to the needs of the poor are in development.
▪ Yet the net result of his pages of lists is to create a curious abundance-effect.
sale
▪ Therefore there was a net sale of 5.4 billion of new gilts to the private sector.
▪ Fourthquarter 1995 net sales, Digital Link said, were about $ 10 million, in line with year-earlier levels.
▪ Business machines accounted for 81.3 percent of net sales as demand for cameras and other optical products slipped, it said.
▪ Case had 1994 net sales of $ 4. 3 billion.
▪ Excluding the mergers, net sales for 1995 rose 28 % to $ 928 million.
▪ Posted net sales of $ 246 million in 1996.
worth
▪ It has net worth of £430 million and net debt of £325 million.
▪ Associates was well-financed, when the firm had a negative net worth.
▪ My net worth dropped to zero.
▪ In 1994, after the killings, his net worth was $ 11 million.
▪ You now make $ 85, 000, and you have a net worth.
▪ A more sophisticated way of assessing federal debt would be to try to compute our net worth by subtracting debt from assets.
▪ His net worth was estimated at $ 11 million only four years ago at the time of his divorce.
▪ Forbes has declined to release such forms or to declare his net worth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Foreign investors were net buyers, though some were waiting for a market drop to allow bargain-hunting.
▪ It is the price of the bonds that determines the net asset value of bond funds.
▪ Orange is expected to break even in net income terms by 1998.
▪ Ronson told bankers that the March 31 accounts would show net assets had fallen to £135 million compared with £585 million previously.
▪ That account tells us the amount of net payments over receipts compared with the budgeted figures.
III.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fish
▪ A total of 144 anglers netted 462 fish.
goal
▪ Craighton added a fifth for Chatteris and Dave Lee netted a consolation goal for the Shrimpers four minutes from time.
▪ Leading scorer Tommy Mooney netted his eleventh goal of the campaign on 38 minutes.
▪ Matthias Sammer netted both goals in the second half to keep Dortmund in third place.
▪ Wegerle also netted the third goal, in the final minute, from an obviously offside position.
▪ Don Goodman, later to be transferred for £1 million to Sunderland, netted the only goal.
▪ He netted 9 goals for United.
mosquito
▪ Finally I took the mosquito netting from a nail out the barn.
▪ Uncle Michael on a metal bed, cocooned in a fold of army blanket under mosquito netting, drawing ragged breaths.
profit
▪ Another deal made while he was still in office helped net a handsome profit for his wife, Honey.
▪ In the first half, net profit more than doubled to 1. 86 billion francs.
▪ In financial terms, net parental profit has never been so negative.
safety
▪ If the top leaders fail, there's no safety net, no recourse.
▪ Trapeze artists, firefighters and high-rise building workers rely on safety nets for protection.
▪ The unbending insistence on fiscal retrenchment, whatever the impact on countries with non-existent social safety nets, should be rethought.
▪ But, where can investors now find safety nets?
▪ The law career had been my safety net for many years by then.
www
▪ Call 791-2263 for information, or see their website at www. pfu. net / upstairs.
■ VERB
expect
▪ Action against the trusts alone is expected to net the Treasury £ 500m.
▪ The event, expected to net more than $ 1 million, was sponsored by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
▪ She said she had expected to net $ 10, 000 from the $ 1 million drug scheme.
▪ He is expected to net £ 6m.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Net/Internet/Web surfer
▪ Netscape hooked millions of web surfers on Navigator by letting them have it for free.
▪ Online newspapers: Web surfers are showing strong interest in online news.
▪ Relatively few sites are so compelling that Web surfers make it a point to visit every day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An undercover drug sweep netted 22 suspects in one evening.
▪ Donna got a raise in February, but she's still only netting $19,000 a year.
▪ For the first three months of 1990, Starcorp netted $547 million.
▪ Measure A netted only 58 percent of the vote.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few folks probably got buzzed and the sale netted $ 125.
▪ But town have netted only around half that in sales.
▪ The event, expected to net more than $ 1 million, was sponsored by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
▪ The lake is commercially netted by licensed fishermen.
verbal
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a verbal agreement (=agreed in words, but not written down)
▪ The doctor needs to have a verbal agreement from the patient.
a verbal exchange (=spoken rather than written)
▪ The two boxers recently became involved in a heated verbal exchange.
verbal abuse
▪ vandalism and verbal abuse directed at old people
verbal communication (=with words)
▪ This activity is designed to improve students' verbal communication skills.
verbal consent (=spoken consent)
▪ He gave his verbal consent to have the interview taped.
verbal dexterity
▪ his charm and verbal dexterity
verbal/linguistic ability (=language skills)
▪ The test is intended to measure the children's linguistic ability.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ability
▪ This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.
▪ In 1947, girls scored higher than boys in spelling, language, clerical speed and accuracy, and verbal ability.
▪ This supports the hypothesis that there is a right field advantage for verbal ability over spatial ability.
▪ However, in other studies it has been found that women in general have superior verbal ability to men.
abuse
▪ Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
▪ A solid majority shows strong correlation with disrespectful behavior, verbal abuse and physical aggression.
▪ Some 30 % of exclusions were for bullying, and a further 14.9 % for verbal abuse.
▪ There were the violent outbursts, way out of proportion to any wrong done, and constant verbal abuse.
▪ The effects of verbal abuse can be shattering.
▪ They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse.
▪ I was scared of verbal abuse before, when I was bigger; now it's great to feel invisible.
▪ They subjected her to verbal abuse.
agreement
▪ It's only a verbal agreement.
▪ The conference sponsors claimed that there was never even a verbal agreement, and refused to pay.
▪ This was an untruth-there had been a clear verbal agreement that he would be reimbursed for all his costs.
▪ Your verbal agreement is less important to the child than your interest in how he is feeling.
assault
▪ Until now Mr Mugabe's verbal assaults have largely focused on white farm-owners.
▪ But the best stories in this collection are a completely engrossing verbal assault, challenging in their glaring clarity and uncompromising conclusions.
attack
▪ She explodes in a verbal attack on Trevor which momentarily he finds quite a relief.
▪ Vocalist Zack de la Rocha makes sure his verbal attacks are clearly heard.
▪ Maybe, but Mark E. Smith had the back-up knowledge to defeat any oncoming verbal attack from journalist or punter.
▪ He then turned on the assembled crowd and mounted a scathing verbal attack on them.
▪ With girls the aggression is more likely to consist of a verbal attack.
behaviour
▪ Non-verbal behaviours need to accompany and reinforce what you are saying, your verbal behaviour.
▪ As I keep saying, our visual and verbal behaviour is one of our best bodyguards.
communication
▪ Without labels, verbal communication is impossible.
▪ The physical part made up for the shallowness of verbal communication.
▪ Self motivation, initiative, excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail will, however, be vital.
▪ Written and verbal communication between the plant management and Hanes management about the results of the implementation increases.
▪ Those who find verbal communication difficult will have to rely on what we call corporal communication.
▪ It can be very time consuming and it often depends on unstructured verbal communication because of this.
▪ The context in the eye movement study was unusual in that only verbal communication was possible.
▪ Is awe-inspiring in her ability to evaluate verbal communications and numerical data.
description
▪ For all kinds of on screen information - including graphics - Window Bridge can produce a verbal description.
▪ The decline in information content from principal component 1 to principal component 4 does not need any verbal description.
▪ The root definition is a concise verbal description of the system, which captures its essential nature.
▪ In every case the draftsman should consider whether the plan is to prevail over the verbal description or viceversa.
exchange
▪ Aspects of social and physical context, and of verbal exchange, may affect their judgment.
▪ These encounters are for this reason accompanied by a great deal of laughing, smiling and verbal exchanges.
▪ She motioned to me to sit beside her and we settled into our limited verbal exchanges.
▪ Knowledge of circumstances is communicated partly by information exchange across man-machine interfaces but also by verbal exchanges between people.
▪ A verbal exchange between two people was recorded and part of it was written down.
expression
▪ In other words, the child has progressed to the conception of thinking as something mental, behind any verbal expression.
▪ A man from corporates came at verbal expression from a more novel angle.
▪ And yet the linkage of colour with verbal expression is highly problematic.
▪ A characteristic of human verbal expression of pain is that it contains a mixture of private suffering and public display.
▪ A torrent of words pour out as thoughts race around in her head, vying with each other for verbal expression.
form
▪ Nooj is really the verbal form.
▪ This chapter emphasizes the messages that are communicated through oral or written language-the verbal forms of political communication.
information
▪ It is therefore important to understand the causes of individual differences in children's abilities to interpret non verbal information correctly.
▪ The left selective-attention system directed at retaining verbal information dominated the choice of what was to be selectively retained from the environment.
▪ The volunteers were given both written and verbal information as to the nature of the trial.
▪ These might well involve those selective-attention circuits passing through the left thalamus that focus attention on verbal information such as object names.
▪ The highest level of verbal information that can reasonably be expected from an automatic tagger is the transitivity of the verb.
▪ If managers rely so heavily on verbal information, then that verbal information invariably arrives with an extra verbal overlay.
▪ Of course, the written word is enhanced when given in conjunction with verbal information.
instruction
▪ In the light of this distrust in the effectiveness of verbal instruction, what was Rousseau's opinion of reading?
▪ He gave no verbal instruction but occasionally would gesture with his hand, like a conductor.
▪ The learner acts appropriately on receiving verbal instructions or requests.
▪ She unpacked a self-locating mine, punched in her identifier and gave it a simple verbal instruction.
▪ They are non-verbal tests, though there are verbal instructions which had to be translated into sign for deaf participants.
▪ Photographs of children carrying out each step provide visual reinforcement of the verbal instructions.
message
▪ Voice, eyes, mouth and posture can contradict the actual verbal message.
▪ Do the visual signals you receive help you understand the verbal messages?
▪ Horses can convey considerably more verbal messages than these few examples would imply.
presentation
▪ You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations.
▪ But making effective verbal presentations is definitely not the same as talking in conversations.
▪ A poor verbal presentation will not only devalue your message but you along with it.
▪ Make a brief effective verbal presentation of your case. 3.
▪ Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.
▪ It has generally been found that people can only absorb around seven key ideas in any verbal presentation, nomatterhow well conveyed.
▪ It can therefore pay to subject your verbal presentation to some extremely critical scrutiny before it reaches its final destination.
▪ If you have to read out your verbal presentation then you are asking for failure.
report
▪ A verbal report will usually be enough.
▪ We received a verbal report to say these were a start but needed more detail.
▪ This conclusion is in accordance with comparable dissociations between implicit processing and verbal report in other areas of neuropsychology.
▪ One is that we must admit verbal reports of inner experiences of human beings as valid evidence for studies of consciousness.
response
▪ We have also noted that there is in practice little inter-observer variation in the scoring of verbal responses in these patients.
▪ Offer either a quick verbal response shortly afterwards or a one page memo.
skill
▪ Freud examines around 250 dreams with a verbal skill and humour which, the translator says, have given her delight.
▪ Conversely a child who is weak in visual perceptions can be helped to use auditory and verbal skills to comprehend other children.
▪ Working with people whose verbal skills and ability to conceptualise may he limited or sometimes non-existent, offers a particular challenge.
▪ At the same time his verbal skills took a leap.
▪ Some people are very mathematically inclined, others excel in verbal skills.
warning
▪ No siren will be used and the alert will be given by verbal warning arranged by the Police.
▪ Mrs Jonker, of Southport, said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
verbal/linguistic gymnastics
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ verbal abuse
▪ verbal communication
▪ verbal skill
▪ Federal authorities gave Alascom verbal approval to begin the project.
▪ We had a verbal agreement but no written contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A verbal report will usually be enough.
▪ And he held the elements of mental propositions to be ideas, just as those of verbal propositions are words.
▪ Normally a language is developed by human beings from guttural sounds that eventually become verbal symbols for objects and actions.
▪ One month after the tests, his teacher wrote the following entry: Harold has become quite verbal but otherwise progressed little.
▪ Some very verbal children may be overreactive to noise and certain types of touch and visual input.
▪ The physical part made up for the shallowness of verbal communication.
▪ This was an untruth-there had been a clear verbal agreement that he would be reimbursed for all his costs.
▪ Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The touch judges come in for some even more serious verbals.
eatery
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Furthermore, the eatery is no longer incorporated, he said.
▪ If you do want a change from the Papillon restaurants, a host of first-class eateries are nearby.
▪ Mimi Sheraton, for example, had to don various disguises so she would not be recognized while critiquing elegant eateries.
▪ Now the gluttonous diner has a wide array of eateries from which to choose.
▪ Sure, we had called the Altamonte Springs eatery for directions.
▪ The eatery was Summit Station, in Gaithersburg.
▪ The street is dotted with pricey eateries, art galleries, boutiques and hair salons.
▪ Yes, Picasso-themed eateries from Venice to Guadalajara.
circular file
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And we know the usual fate of such ephemera: consignment to the bottomless circular file below the desk.
Wiktionary
latitudinarianism
n. tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.
pharmacography
n. pharmacognosis
hypercorrections
n. (plural of hypercorrection English)
succinctly
adv. In a succinct manner, concisely.
vaejovids
n. (plural of vaejovid English)
papercut
n. (alternative form of paper cut English)
synaptogenesis
n. (context biology English) The process leading to the formation of synapses
readout
n. The presentation of numerical data on any of many types of display
pulpitless
a. Without a pulpit.
probability distribution
n. (context mathematics English) A function of a discrete random variable yielding the probability that the variable will have a given value
nimieties
n. (plural of nimiety English)
septorhinoplastic
a. Pertaining to septorhinoplasty.
custard
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches. 2 (context countable English) Any particular variety of custard.
pin cushion
n. (alternative form of pincushion English)
theolin
n. theophylline
webtoons
n. (plural of webtoon English)
underscrupulous
a. Insufficiently scrupulous.
whang
Etymology 1 n. 1 (cx dialect colloquial English) A blow; a whack. 2 (cx Britain Scotland dialect colloquial English) A large piece or slice; a chunk. 3 (cx US dialect dated English) A house-cleaning party. vb. 1 (context chiefly of an object English) To make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air. 2 (context informal transitive English) To throw with a rapid slamming motion. 3 (context US Scotland Britain dialect slang English) To whack or beat. 4 (cx Scotland English) To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop. Etymology 2
alt. 1 (context UK US dialect informal dated English) A leather thong. 2 (context slang English) A penis. n. 1 (context UK US dialect informal dated English) A leather thong. 2 (context slang English) A penis.
wallowest
vb. (context archaic English) (en-archaic second-person singular of: wallow)
meteor shower
n. (context astronomy English) A phenomenon occurring when many meteors are seen on Earth during a short period of time.
gen
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context chiefly British informal English) information 2 (context fandom English) fanfiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex. Etymology 2
n. (alternative case form of Gen English)
emblematizes
vb. (en-third-person singular of: emblematize)
absolute pins
n. (plural of absolute pin English)
rheostats
n. (plural of rheostat English)
pin back
vb. (context transitive English) To keep at a distance
safety pin
n. 1 a pin, in the form of a clasp, that has a guard to cover the sharp point; used to join two pieces of fabric etc together temporarily 2 the pin of a hand grenade that prevents accidental detonation
drawer
n. 1 An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. 2 (non-gloss definition agent noun Agent noun of draw); one who draws. 3 An artist who primarily makes drawings. 4 (context banking English) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note. 5 A barman; a man who draws the beer from the taps. 6 Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.(w Palm wine W)
variegated horsetail
n. A plant in the taxonomic genus ''Equisetum'' (horsetails); (taxlink Equisetum variegatum species noshow=1).
letheonized
vb. (en-past of: letheonize)
plate armour
alt. metallic armour made of large pieces or plates. n. metallic armour made of large pieces or plates.
smickly
adv. (context obsolete English) smugly; finically
stabbing
(context of pain English) sharp, intense n. An incident in which a person is stabbed. v
(present participle of stab English)
central nervous system
n. (context neuroanatomy English) In vertebrates, that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.
mandlestone
n. The amygdaloid
theologizes
vb. (en-third-person singular of: theologize)
psychopathy
n. A personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitation, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder.
clarinet
n. (context musici English) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).
bastles
n. (context obsolete English) (plural of bastle English)
bispiraled
a. Possessing two spirals or helix.
hemicranias
n. (plural of hemicrania English)
jostling
n. An act of jostling; a push or shove. vb. (present participle of jostle English)
belly dancer
alt. Person who performs a belly dance. n. Person who performs a belly dance.
indicant
a. Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating. n. That which indicates or points out.
net
Etymology 1 n. 1 A mesh of string, cord or rope. 2 A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To catch by means of a net. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem. 3 To enclose or cover with a net. 4 (context transitive football English) To score (a goal). 5 (context tennis English) To hit the ball into the net. Etymology 2
1 (context obsolete English) good, desirable; clean, decent, clear. 2 Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat. 3 Remaining after expenses or deductions. 4 final; end. adv. after expenses or deductions alt. 1 (context obsolete English) good, desirable; clean, decent, clear. 2 Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat. 3 Remaining after expenses or deductions. 4 final; end. n. The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit. v
1 (context transitive English) To receive as profit. 2 (context transitive English) To yield as profit for. 3 To fully hedge a position.
refective
a. Refreshing; restoring. n. That which refreshes.
raise the stakes
vb. 1 (context poker English) To raise the stakes of a hand of poker 2 (context idiomatic English) to increase in significance or risk
verbal
1 Of or relating to words. 2 Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text. 3 Consisting of words only. 4 Expressly spoken rather than written. 5 (context grammar English) Derived from, or having the nature of a ver
6 (context grammar English) Used to form a verb. 7 Capable of speech. 8 Word for word; literal; verbatim. 9 (context obsolete English) Abounding with words; verbose. n. (context grammar English) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals. vb. (context transitive British Australia English) To induce into fabricate a confession.
tramplest
vb. (en-archaic second-person singular of: trample)
there, there
interj. (context idiomatic English) Conveys comfort; used to calm somebody or urge somebody to relax, especially when the person is crying.
delegitimisations
n. (plural of delegitimisation English)
delegitimisation
n. (alternative spelling of delegitimization English)
radionebula
n. (alternative spelling of radio nebula English)
compactification
n. 1 (context topology English) Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact. 2 (context topology English) The space resulting from any such procedure. 3 (context physics English) Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite
nonagenarian
a. 1 Being between the age of 90 and 99, inclusive. In one's tenth decade. 2 Of or relating to a nonagenarian. n. One who is between the age of 90 and 99, inclusive. One who is in his or her tenth decade.
befiperide
n. A serotonin agonist.
theodolites
n. (plural of theodolite English)
plectra
n. (plural of plectrum English)
provincialize
vb. (context transitive English) To render provincial; to reduce or allot to provinces.
provocatively
adv. In a stimulative manner.
forearms
n. (plural of forearm English)
rayonnant
a. (context heraldry English) Darting forth rays like those of the sun.
fan service
n. (alternative form of fanservice English)
provosty
n. (context historical English) The office or remit of a provost, especially with reference to French history.
eatery
n. (context North American informal English) a restaurant or café, etc.
detonizations
n. (plural of detonization English)
rhinoplasties
n. (plural of rhinoplasty English)
circular file
n. (context idiomatic humorous English) The trash container; the wastebasket.
WordNet
succinctly
adv. with concise and precise brevity; to the point; "Please state your case as succinctly as possible"; "he wrote compactly but clearly" [syn: compactly]
custard
n. sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
whang
meteor shower
n. a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere [syn: meteor stream]
gen
n. informal term for information; "give me the gen on your new line of computers"
safety pin
n. a pin in the form of a clasp; has a guard so the point of the pin will not stick the user
drawer
n. a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
an artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman]
variegated horsetail
n. northern North America; Greenland; northern and central Europe [syn: variegated scouring rush, Equisetum variegatum]
plate armour
n. specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire [syn: armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armor]
stabbing
adj. causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" [syn: traumatic, wounding]
as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain" [syn: cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, lancinate, lancinating]
stab
n. a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience" [syn: pang, twinge]
a thrusting blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument; "one strong stab to the heart killed him" [syn: thrust, knife thrust]
informal words for any attempt or effort; "he gave it his best shot"; "he took a stab at forecasting" [syn: shot]
stab
stabbing
See stab
central nervous system
n. the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord [syn: CNS, systema nervosum centrale]
psychopathy
n. any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention [syn: mental illness, mental disease] [ant: mental health]
clarinet
n. a single-reed instrument with a straight tube
bitt pin
n. a pin through the bitthead to keep the mooring lines from slipping off
jostling
n. the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) [syn: jostle]
belly dancer
n. a woman who performs a solo Oriental dance using exaggerated abdominal movements [syn: exotic belly dancer, exotic dancer]
indicant
n. something that serves to indicate or suggest; "an indication of foul play"; "indications of strain"; "symptoms are the prime indicants of disease" [syn: indication]
a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time [syn: index, index number, indicator]
net
net
verbal
adj. communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal ability"
of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude" [ant: numerical]
expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare
nonagenarian
adj. being from 90 to 99 years old; "the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home"
n. someone whose age is in the nineties
rock penstemon
n. one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California [syn: cliff penstemon, Penstemon rupicola]
plectron
plectra
See plectron
provocatively
adv. in a provocative manner; "`Try it,' he said provocatively" [syn: provokingly]
circular file
n. a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish [syn: wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket]
Usage examples of "circular file".
Between you and me and the circular file, I believe the Testing Section goofed dramatically when they pegged this race for a mere Stage D, back in the beginning.
Silver-nailed Janice didn't give me the benefit of her jiggling, gum-chewer's smile, but she did look up Louis Cyphre's address in her circular file.
It's going right into the old circular file as soon as I make a couple routine calls to the feds.
I dumped them all in the circular file, and began to wrack my brains in spite of the heat.
Orbovich searched in vain for another cigarette, crumpled the empty pack and consigned it to a circular file.
I ran a scanner over the universals for each of the files, and dumped the lot in the circular file.
He picked up the phone again, searching through his circular file.
His dad had given him a ton of material on the program, and Alex had dutifully filed it awayin the circular file.