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noun
- A light fixture (see w:sconce (light fixture), sconce (light fixture)).
- A fortification (see w:sconce (fortification), sconce (fortification)).
verb (sconc, ing)
- (obsolete) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
- (obsolete) to shut up in a sconce; to imprison.
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noun (secretaries)
- A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
- The head of a department of government.
- A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.
- Kofi Annan is the current secretary general of the United Nations.
- A type of desk.
- A species of bird; Sagittarius serpentarius.
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noun
- A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
- A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.
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noun
- (archaic) A seat of any kind.
- A bench with a high back and arms.
- (obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
- Quotation: And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit. --Ezek. xliii.
verb (settl, ing)
- (transitive): To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
- Quotation: And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him,until he was ashamed. --2 Kings VIII. 11. (Rev. Ver.)
- Quotation: The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world his only son. --Dryden.
- (transitive), (obsolete) : To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
- (transitive): To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
- Quotation: God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake. --w:Chapman, Champman.
- Quotation: Hoping that sleep might settle his brains. --Bunyan.
- (transitive): To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
- (transitive): To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like;as, clear weather settles the roads.
- (transitive): To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, torender close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
- (transitive): To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
- Quotation: It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful. --Swift.
- (transitive): To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
- (transitive), (archaic): To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
- (transitive), (colloquial): To pay; as, to settle a bill. --Abbott.
- (transitive): To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
- (intransitive): To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
- Quotation: The wind came about and settled in the west. --w:Bacon, Bacon.
- Quotation: Chyle . . . runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red. --Arbuthnot.
- (intransitive): To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
- (intransitive): To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
- Quotation: As people marry now and settle. --Prior.
- (intransitive): To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
- (intransitive): To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.
- (intransitive): To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
- Quotation: A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles. --Addison.
- (intransitive): To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (intransitive): To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive): To become calm; to cease from agitation.
- Quotation: Till the fury of his highness settle, Come not before him. --Shak.
- (intransitive): To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
- (intransitive), (obsolete): To make a jointure for a wife.
- Quotation: He sighs with most success that settles well. --Garth.
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noun - A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
- A variety of pigeon.
- One who held railroad spikes while they were hammered.
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adjective - Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.
- The shaped sides of the wardrobe give it a more attractive appearance.
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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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noun
- A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food
- a board that forms part of the side of something
- (in plural, chiefly, British) sideburns
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noun
- A 45rpm vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually has at least one extra track.
- One who is not married.
- He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
- (cricket) A score of one run.
- (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
- A bill valued at $1.
- I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
verb (singl, ing)
- To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to (something) out.
- Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
- Evonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.
- (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
- Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
adjective
- Not accompanied by anything else.
- Can you give me a reason not to leave right now?
- Not divided in parts.
- The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a big lump on the plate.
- Designed for the use of only one.
- a room
- Designed for a single use; not reusable.
- the anti-aircraft rocket is fired from a single use launch platform.
- Not married.
- Josh put down that he was a male on the dating website.
- (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
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noun - (countable) Someone who sleeps.
- (countable) A saboteur or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- (countable) A railroad sleeping car.
- (countable)(context, rail transport, UK) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together railway lines.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- (countable) A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae. Also "sleeper goby."
- (clothing) A type of pajamas, pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers its whole body, including their feet.
- Aaron, Devin, Ryan H., Cody, Ryan O., Wade, Lisa and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers.
- A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joist, joists beneath and floorboard, floorboards above.
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noun
- A toy for children where they climb up and then slide, glide down again.
- The long, red was great fun for the kids.
- The event of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones moving down the slope of a hill or from a mountain.
- The closed the highway.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding such as in a trombone.
- A transparent image, to be projected to a screen.
- (baseball) The act of droping down and skidding into a base
verb (slides, sliding, slid)
- (transitive) To cause to move in continuous contact with a surface
- He slid the boat across the grass.
- (intransitive) To move in continuous contact with a surface.
- The safe slid slowly.
- (intransitive) To move on a low friction surface.
- The car slid on the ice.
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- Jones slid into second.
- (intransitive) To lose one"s balance on a slippery surface.
- He slid while going around the corner.
- (intransitive) To let pass without action.
- ''The administrator let the minor infraction with only a disapproving look.
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noun
- An act or instance of slipping.
- A women's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress.
- A small piece of paper.
- A berth for a boat or ship.
- A mistake or error (slip of the tongue.)
- (uncountable) In ceramics, a thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- The difference between the speed of a rotating magnetic field and the speed of its rotor.
verb (slip, p, ing)
- (intransitive) To lose one's traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, etc.)
- 1883, w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift...
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noun - A fitted protective or decorative cover that may be slipped off and on a piece of upholstered furniture, usually made of cloth.
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noun - A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
- A smoking car on a train
- An informal social gathering for men only
- A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts
- An illicit boxing match; see w:Battle Royal (boxing)
- A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees (also more specifically called a bee smoker)
- An apparatus for smoke, smoking food
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noun (pl=socks, pl2=sox)
- A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
- A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors.
- A violent blow, punch.
verb
- (pos vt) To hit or strike violently.
- (pos vi) To deliver a blow.
- They may let you off the first time, but the second time they'll it to you—James Jones
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noun (plural: sofas)
- An upholstered seat, typically having sides and back, long enough to accommodate two or more people.
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noun
- The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
- I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.
- The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
- The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.
- The cmd key on an Apple Macintosh ®.
- Various characters appearing in computer character sets, particularly <nowiki>
- </nowiki> and <nowiki>
verb (splat, t, ed)
- To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
- The egg splatted onto the floor.
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noun
- A narrow strip of wood split or peeled off of a larger piece.
- (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
- 1900 But it so happened that I had a man in the hospital at the time, and going there to see about him the day before the opening of the Inquiry, I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=172793065&tag=Conrad,+Joseph,+1857-1924:+Lord+Jim,+1899-1900&query=splints&id=ConLord Chapter 5.
- A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
- A segment of armor.
- 1819 The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints , or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ankle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour. " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=555538796&tag=Scott,+Walter:+Ivanhoe.+A+Romance,+1819&query=defended+by+splints&id=ScoIvan Chapter 1.
- A bone found on either side of the horse's cannon bone
verb
- To apply a splint.
- To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
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noun
- A baby pigeon.
- A baby rook.
- A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
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noun
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- He set the music upon the and began to play.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- She took the and quietly answered questions.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- They took a firm against copyright infringement.
- A particular grove or other group of trees.
- This of pines is older than the one next to it.
- (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait: taxi stand.
- (cricket) A partnership.
verb (stands, standing, stood, stood or archaic standen)
- (intransitive) To be upright, support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
- (intransitive) To rise to one's feet; to stand up.
- Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
- (intransitive) To remain motionless.
- Do not leave your car standing in the road.
- (context, cricket, intransitive) To act as an umpire.
- (intransitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
- (transitive) To tolerate.
- I can't stand when people don't read the instructions.
- I can't her.
- (intransitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
- He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
- (context, UK, intransitive) To seek election
- He is standing for election to the local council
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noun
- A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
- A footstool.
- feces, Feces; excrement.
- 'Usage notes: 'The word stool is preferred to fí¦ces and excrement in medical use.
- (archaic) A decoy.
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noun
- the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb
- (politics) the place where a campaign takes place
- (politics) an occasion at which the campaign takes place
- (cricket) one of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball
- (context, drawing) an artists" drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media
- wooden or concrete poles used to support a house.
verb
- (intransitive) to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- ''This last question has me stumped.
- (intransitive) to campaign
- He"s been stumping for that reform for months.
- (context, transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
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noun
- The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
- If you take my advice, you'll file against him immediately.
- (italbrac-colon, obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- Thenceforth the of earthly conquest shone. "Spenser.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. "Pope.
- (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers, or a similar outfit for a woman.
- Nick hired a navy-blue for the wedding.
- (context, pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
- A full set of armour.
- (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic and French playing cards.
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. "Cowper.
- (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and of weather comes again. "Bacon.
verb
- To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. "Shak.
- To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
- Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. "Dryden.
- Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. "Prior.
- To dress; to clothe.
- So went he suited to his watery tomb. "Shak.
- To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one"s taste.
- (intransitive): To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; " usually
followed by with or to.
- The place itself was suiting to his care. "Dryden.
- Give me not an office That suits with me so ill. "Addison.
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noun
- A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.
- A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.
- One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.
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noun
- Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers; the commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
- (colour) a bright yellow, like that of the flower.
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adjective
- (colour) of a bright yellow, like that of the flower.
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