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verb
- To make or keep
- Adjective, warm.
- To increasingly favour.
- He is warming to the idea.
- Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
adjective
- A temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; a Mild, mild temperature.
- The tea is still .
- Something that causes warmth, or the impression thereof.
- This is a very room.
- care, Caring, of relations to another person.
- We have a friendship.
- 1985: Robert Ferro, Blue Star
- : It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too , too young.
- (context, archaic) Ardent, zealous.
- 1776: Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 1
- : To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
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noun
- a crosscut saw operated by two people
verb to whipsaw
- to operate a whipsaw
- to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises
- to defeat someone in two different ways at once
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noun
- A four-player card game, similar to bridge.
adjective
- silent, Silent
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noun (plural whoopee cushions)
- An inflatable bag containing a valve at its neck that retains the air in the bag until pressure is put on it (usually by someone unintentionally sitting on it after it has been placed on a chair by someone else as a practical joke), when the air is expelled with a sound similar to that of someone break wind, breaking wind.
| | wicket |
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noun
- A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one
- A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating
- (Cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman
- (Cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out
- (Cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together
- (Cricket) The pitch
- (Cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand
- (Croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven
- (snowboarding): A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
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noun
- A woman whose husband has died (and has not re-married)
- (informal, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport etc
- A golf-
- (printing) a single line of type, that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column
| | wild card |
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noun
- In card games, a card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
| | wink |
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noun
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief time; an instant.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
verb
- (intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
- (intransitive) To twinkle.
- (transitive) To send an indication of agreement by winking.
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noun
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; a telegram
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
verb (wir, ing)
- to fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing
- We need to that hole in the fence.
- to string on a wire
- beads
- to equip for use with electricity
- to add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something
- I'll just your camera to the computer screen.
- (informal) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.
- Urgent: please me another 100 pounds sterling.
- to make someone tense or psyched-up
- I'm never going to sleep " I'm completely wired from all that coffee.
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- We wired the suspects house.
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