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n. (cassette drive English)
a. 1 (context informal English) Associated with the outdoors, or suited to outdoor life. 2 (context informal English) Fond of the outdoors.
n. (context mineralogy English) A hexagonal mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: reperforate)
prep. (alternative form of umbe English)
n. (plural of freeway English)
n. A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
n. (plural of fullerene English)
1 That has been given a higher rating 2 upgraded v
(en-past of: uprate)
n. 1 A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy. 2 The curve-ended stick used in this game.
n. (plural of puerperal fever English)
vb. (present participle of stipulate English)
n. One who places adornments, who adorns.
n. (plural of phantasmagory English)
n. (plural of detector English)
a. Relating to nanotoxicology.
n. (dope fiend English)
vb. (context obsolete English) To confine; to contract; to stringe.
n. (context obsolete English) A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.
Etymology 1 a. Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase). Etymology 2
n. 1 A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater. 2 (taxlink Trite genus noshow=1), a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
n. (plural of dendrogram English)
vb. (cx informal English) To swear with the pinky fingers entwined.
a. resembling incest
n. (plural of titanotherium English)
n. (plural of nasheed English)
vb. (context idiomatic US automotive English) To start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.
vb. (en-third-person singulardish out)
n. (jail lock English)
vb. (en-pastdish out)
n. (plural of denominator English)
a. Making complete.
n. 1 The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material. 2 (alternative form of tortoiseshell English)
n. A family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.
n. (plural of sulphacid English)
vb. 1 (context rock climbing English) To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement. 2 To turn up to a place or function unexpectedly, or without notice or prior warning.
a. (alternative spelling of poufy English)
n. (plural of omul English)
vb. (en-third-person singularhang out to dry)
a. (context accounting computing business English) Of or pertaining to any situation where the last to arrive is the first to go, or a data structure where the most recently added item is the first to be retrieved.
a. 1 (&lit out of gas English): lacking fuel. 2 (context idiomatic English) Tired; lacking energy or motivation.
n. 1 a short news story printed alongside a larger one 2 (context computing English) information placed at the side of a webpage 3 (context US legal English) a short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the jury's hearing; the place where this happens
n. (plural of chopine English)
n. (context military English) A rapid retreat, a rout. vb. 1 (context idiomatic intransitive English) To leave (a place) hastily (originally military). 2 (context idiomatic intransitive English) to abandon someone without warning. 3 (context idiomatic intransitive English) miss school, play truant, play hooky. 4 (context idiomatic transitive of one's eyes English) To cause to bulge. 5 (context idiomatic computing English) To crash or glitch.
n. (misspelling of idea English)
n. A stimulant drug of the xanthine class.
n. (context obsolete English) A fripper; one who deals in frippery or old clothes.
vb. 1 to search, to look for 2 to track down, to find by searching
n. An antiseptic/disinfectant compound.
n. (context travel English) A future-dated line of text put in to an airline reservation system or GDS to delay the booking being moved to archives.
Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2
n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming
vb. (present participle of rub out English)
vb. (present participle of cash out English)
n. (plural of quixotry English)
n. 1 (context baseball English) An instance of fouling out. 2 (context basketball English) An instance of fouling out. vb. 1 (context baseball English) To become out by hitting a foul ball which is caught. 2 (context basketball English) To be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls.
n. A prehistoric man resembling an ape.
n. 1 the quality of being portable 2 (context computing English) the ability of a program (or software system) to execute properly on multiple hardware platforms 3 the ability of an employee to move between different social security schemes without losing their contributions 4 the ability of a telephone subscriber to keep his/her number when switching to a different network
n. (context onomatopoeia English) The sound of a locomotive whistle
a. Completely sold; no more (of a particular item) in stock
vb. (context transitive idiomatic English) to send (children or pets) to stay with other people (or to boarding school, in the case of children)
n. (context British informal English) A mobile phone.
alt. 1 an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time 2 an electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time n. 1 an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time 2 an electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time
vb. (present participle of neglect English)
n. (plural of geezer English)
n. (plural of chron English)
vb. (context transitive English) To bring under yoke; make subject.
n. polydimethylsiloxane
n. (plural of archmagician English)
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being extensive 2 (context countable English) The extent to which something is extensive
n. (plural of halacha English)
a. (alternative form of highfalutin English)
n. (plural of waitlist English)
n. (context Scotland English) A potato scone; made from flour and cooked potatoes, but no onions.
n. A pause. vb. (present participle of pause English)
n. (plural of obscenity English)
a. sad or pessimistic n. (context music English) The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke)
adv. (context idiomatic English) after an active or heated period. alt. (context idiomatic English) after an active or heated period.
n. a device that allows two-way communication via radio
vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To cut; to separate and remove. 2 (context obsolete English) To resolve or break up, as by medicines.
n. proanthocyanidin
n. (taxlink Lepidochelys olivacea species), a species of (l en sea turtle)
n. 1 (context rhetoric English) A change from one subject to another. 2 (context pathology English) Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.
n. (plural of dweebling English)
n. That to which something is attributed; a target of attribution.
adv. In terms of traffic.
n. (plural of backstock English)
a. (context rare English) Suffering from or pertaining to hypophalangia; lacking one or more digital phalanges.
n. (context rare English) A specifically female glossator.
vb. (context obsolete English) To confederate.
n. (context rare English) (plural of sadomasochism English)
n. 1 A Central American plant, of the genus ''Agave'', cultivated for its sword-shaped leaves that yield fibers used for rope. 2 The fibre of the plant. 3 (context rare English) A sisal mat.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: coconspire)
n. 1 (context countable English) A paste usually formed of flour, sugar, water, eggs, and other ingredients which, when baked, hardens to form a cookie or a number of cookies. 2 (context uncountable English) A flavor designed to emulate the taste of the paste.
vb. (context archaic English) (en-archaic second-person singular of: melt)
n. (context economics English) The buying and selling of products from an economical view, dealing with the making, the distribution, and the usage of the product.
n. an early television camera having a mosaic of photoactive cells
n. (singular of cold cuts English)
n. A man who holds open the door at the entrance to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services.
n. (context computing English) a proxy server that may be accessed by any Internet user
alt. small-scale activism; activism consisting of small actions. n. small-scale activism; activism consisting of small actions.
n. (plural of catholicon English)
n. (alt form mill dam English)
n. (context meteorology English) An instrument that measures the humidity of the air or other gases, especially the relative humidity.
adv. in an atheistic manner
n. (plural of trichina English)
n. (plural of methylbromide English)
vb. (context idiomatic colloquial vulgar English) To masturbate (male).
a. (obsolete form of eclectic English) n. (obsolete form of eclectic English)
Usage examples of "eclectick".
He brushed against her as he stepped past her into the briefing room, then paused as he saw not the commodore but another commander with the aiguilette of a staff officer.
The aiguilette of a staff officer hung from her shoulder, and she came to attention and saluted as Honor swung from the tube.
Both were men—one, stocky for an Andermani, in the uniform of a captain, and the other a commander who, like Schoeninger, wore the aiguilette of a staff officer.
Both were men, one, stocky for an Andermani, in the uniform of a captain, and the other a commander who, like Schoeninger, wore the aiguilette of a staff officer.
Both were menone, stocky for an Andermani, in the uniform of a captain, and the other a commander who, like Schoeninger, wore the aiguilette of a staff officer.
He wore dress uniform, and the golden aiguilette hanging from his shoulder indicated Gold Battalion, the personal command—and bodyguard—of the reigning monarch.