proper noun

1. (alternative spelling of, Taekwondo)

category:Martial arts

noun

1. (slang) an arrest by a police officer of a suspect

noun

1. A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing.

verb (traverses, traversing, traversed)

1. (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.

He will have to the mountain before he gets to the other side.

1. (transitive) (computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.

noun

1. An athlete who competes in the triathlon.

noun

1. an athletics event in which contestants compete in swimming, cycling and running in turn

noun

1. An athletics field event where one has to travel as far as possible after taking one hop, a step, then a jump

proper noun

1. (informal) The London Underground

noun (wikipedia, tubing (material))

1. tubes, considered as a group
2. a length of tube, or a system of tubes
3. the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube

(wikipedia, tubing (recreation))

noun

1. (slang) snack food. Derived from the expression "to tuck in food" meaning "to eat up", "to guzzle".
2. A curled position.

verb

1. to push in one material under another - as in "tuck in your shirt" or "I tucked in my shirt" etc
2. to eat food
3. to curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.

The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.

noun

1. The act of overturning something
2. The amount of business transacted in a specified time period

The company had an annual turnover of $500.000.

1. The number of times a stock is replaced after being used or sold, a worker is replaced after leaving, or a property changes hands

Those apartments have a high turnover because they are so close to the railroad tracks.

1. A pastry consisting of pastry or pie crust around sweet, often fruit filling.

They served apple turnovers for breakfast.

1. (sports) A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.

The Nimrods committed a dismaying 23 turnovers en route to another humiliating loss.

noun

1. a force (producing twisting).
2. anything twisted, or the act of twisting; the degree of stress or strain when twisted.
3. a type of thread or cotton traditionally used for buttonholes.
4. a sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
5. a sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
6. a distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
7. an unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
8. a type of dance characterised by rotating one"s hips.
9. a rotation of the body when diving.
10. a sprain, especially to the ankle.

verb

1. to turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force
2. to join together by twining one part around another
3. to turn a knob etc.
4. to distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating
5. to form a twist (in any of the above meanings)