Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To grout again.
n. Any of the genus ''Atriplex'' of plants, especially ''Atriplex hortensis'' or (taxlink Atriplex patula species noshow=1), found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach, including many desert and seashore plants and halophytes.
vb. (en-past of: retee)
n. (plural of sidelock English)
n. (context idiomatic formulaic English) A minimal level of competence or effectiveness, as used in phrases where one is unable to perform.
n. (context dated nautical English) A sailor.
n. the state of being immaterial; immateriality
vb. (context transitive English) to make more shiny, attractive or elegant.
adv. 1 In a trophic manner 2 With regard to nutrition
n. The stages of film (or audio) production happening between the actual filming (or recording) and the completed product.
adv. To appearances; apparently.
n. (plural of theatricalization English)
vb. (en-third-person singularbrown out)
alt. (context soccer English) A chance to clear the ball to an attacking teammate, or such an attacker; a target man. n. (context soccer English) A chance to clear the ball to an attacking teammate, or such an attacker; a target man.
a. (obsolete form of armorial English)
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Campanulariidae.
alt. (context US English) (present participle of recognize English) vb. (context US English) (present participle of recognize English)
n. (plural of knuckleduster English)
vb. (past participle of take out English)
n. (plural of binner English)
n. (plural of ghostlore English)
a. 1 of or relating to a creature 2 being a creature, created
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To fail to finish school, or a given subject, program or course, due to academic shortcomings; i.e., to have too many flunking or failing grades (marks). 2 (context idiomatic English) (of an educator or institution) To impose failing grades on (a student), often requiring a retaking of the course or academic year.
init. 1 (context Australia English) Western Australian football league. 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20Anywhere%20File%20Layout, a patented file system designed exclusively for NetApp Inc. to optimize write performance in its storage applications. 3 workshop on Altaic in formal linguistics, a yearly international linguistic conference.
vb. (en-past of: lash out)
n. 1 Any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants with white berry that grow in the crowns of oaks, apple trees and other trees. 2 A sprig of these plants used as a Christmas decoration.
vb. (context obsolete dialect UK English) To range about in an irregular manner.
a. (context simile English) Extremely clear and plain to see.
alt. (context idiomatic English) Verbal means of passing on information. n. (context idiomatic English) Verbal means of passing on information.
n. (context rare English) (squaw carpet English)
Etymology 1 n. (label en agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. vb. (context transitive English) To lay up in a barn. Etymology 2
n. (context dialect parts of Northern England English) A child.
n. (tippy English)
a. In optical surface gloss measurements: Angle from direct specular reflection (as opposed to: angle from surface normal). Positive sign means in direction towards incident illumination, negative means away from incident light.
n. 1 (context management English) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group. 2 A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them. 3 (context US English) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
n. (alternative spelling of swansdown English)
n. A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest
n. (plural of violotta English)
a. (context finance English) Describing any market system in which prices are established by quotations given by market makers
Usage examples of "quote-driven".
The fact that Dingbat and Skate knew nothing about the fire until Enwald told them, merely indicated greater depth to the plot.
Perhaps it was his lack of company like Dingbat and Skate that gave Enwald gloss on this occasion.
Skate and Dingbat heard the noise and wheeled about, tugging guns from their hips.
CHAPTER XI - DEATH BELOW LOCKED with two thugs like Skate and Dingbat, The Shadow held advantages that his antagonists did not suspect.
Past the glaring faces of Skate and Dingbat, The Shadow saw Enwald lunging forward with the bottle.
Christmas party, which was going to be dull with an exceeding great dullness, no matter how the Braithwaites might tear their hair to make it interesting, Dinny went skating in the park.
She said it hardly seemed fair that big fibbers could get so rich by skating the thin ice just within the law.
Marcella and Victor called out the names of every fish in sight, about fifty in all: iridescent sardines and anchovies flashing silver and turquoise, flying fish with pointed beaks and snails creeping nowhere in their glossy spotted shells, tiny gray shrimp jumping like crickets and huge blue shrimp too stately to move, clams with shells bearing Navajo designs and scallops as small as aspirins, delicate flatfish for grilling or frying and bony striped fish for soup or risotto, diamond-shaped turbot and broad fans of skate, ink-stained cuttlefish, octopus, squid.
So saying, he bowed deeply to Danlo and then ambled down to the gliddery and snapped in his skate blades.
Then they skated up the old gliddery that leads from the Academy straight to the great circle outside the Hofgarten.
For days, I could not skate down the most out-of-the-way gliddery without some novice tugging on the sleeve of a schoolmate and pointing at me in awe.
Leggy girls in skimpy tops and satin shorts that covered a tenth of their gluteal regions skated by, transforming the walkways between the palms into fleshy freeways.
Next morning with a whoosh they are off east again, and in a few hours sailing are out on the ice with no land visible, skating on the gusty wind with runners clattering or shussing or whining or blasting, depending on wind and ice consistencies.
Before he could give them hockey lessons, they needed skating lessons.
Wednesday at hockey practice he let Kira dole out hot chocolate without asking her to put on skates, which left her free to sing Zane to sleep, which left Travis free to skate like a pro.