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noun - a wobbling motion
verb (waggl, ing)
- to move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble
- My mom always told me to never instead of walking, until she found out I had flat feet.
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noun
- A trip made by walking.
- I take a walk every morning
- A distance walked.
- It"s a long walk from my house to the library
- A manner of walking.
- The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
- (baseball) An instance of walking a batter.
- The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
| | walkover |
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noun - an easy victory; a walkaway
- a bye awarded to a player or team when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game
- a horse race with only one entrant
- (gymnastics) a backbend combined with a handstand
| | wand |
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noun - A stick or staff, used to perform a useful function.
- A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
| | warm |
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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.
| | water polo |
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noun (-, sg=water polo)
- A water sport consisting of two teams of swimmers who have to throw the ball into the opponents goal.
| | water ski |
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noun - A broad ski used for water skiing
verb (inf=water ski)
- (intransitive) To ride on water skis
| | wedge |
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noun
- One of the simple machines; A piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering (w:Wedge (mechanical device), Wikipedia article).
- (context, colloquial, UK) A quantity of money.
- I made a big fat from that job.
- (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
- A group of goose, geese or swans when they are in flight in a V formation.
verb (wedges, wedging, wedged)
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
- To force into a narrow gap.
- He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
- To work wet clay by cutting or knead, kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
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noun (wikipedia, weight)
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth.
- An object used to make something heavier.
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- (weightlifting): A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
- (physics) mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.)
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- (topology) the smallest cardinality of a base
:Compare to mass.
verb
- (transitive) To add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (context, transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (context, transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
| | weightlifting |
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noun
- (sport) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
- A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
| | welter |
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noun
- general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines
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verb
- (intransitive) to roll; to wallow
- (intransitive) to be soaked or steeped in; as, to welter in one"s own blood
adjective
- Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race
| | welterweight |
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noun
- (alternative spelling of, welter-weight)
adjective
- (alternative spelling of, welter-weight)
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| | wet fly |
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noun (wet flies)
- (context, fishing) A lure for fly fishing designed to be fished beneath the surface of the water.
| | whiff |
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noun
- A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
- An odour carried briefly through the air
- A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
- (baseball) A strike (from the batter's perspective)
- The megrim, a fish with scientific name Lepidorhombus boscii or Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
verb
- (transitive) To waft.
- (transitive) To sniff.
- (context, intransitive, baseball) To strike out.
- (slang) to attempt to strike and miss, esp. being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
adjective
- (colloquial) Having a strong or unpleasant odor.
| | wicketkeeper |
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noun
- (cricket) A player who stands behind the batsman"s wicket ready to catch the ball, or to stump the batsman.
| | wide |
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noun
- (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
adjective (wid, er)
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- We walked down a corridor.
- Large in scope.
- The inquiry had a remit.
- (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
- That team needs a decent player.
| | wild pitch |
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noun
- (baseball) A play where the pitcher throws a non-catchable pitch and a runner advances.
- Jones uncorked a , which went to the screen.
| | win |
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noun
- An individual victory.
verb (wins, winning, won)
- (transitive) To achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc).
- (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
- (intransitive) To achieve victory.
- Who would in a fight between an octopus and a dolphin?
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noun (wikipedia, Beaufort scale)
- (context, countable, uncountable) Movement of air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The blew through her hair, standing on the deck of the ship.
- The winds in Chicago are fierce.
- (rfex) (countable) The force developed by the movement of air, expressed as pressure.
- (rfex) (uncountable) The ability to exert oneself without feeling short of breath.
- (context, India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see w:Classical_element, Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
- Give me a minute before we jog the next mile " I need a second .
- (context, uncountable, colloquial) flatus, Flatus.
- Ewww. Someone passed .
verb
- (rfex) (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
- The boxer was winded during round two.
- (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
- I can"t run another step — I"m winded.
| | windup |
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noun
- the act of ending or concluding something
- the last part of something; a conclusion
- A practical joke or tease
adjective
- operated by a coiled spring that is wound by hand
| | wing |
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noun
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- (context, slang) Human arm.
- Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- Part of a building, an extension from the main building
- Part of a huge room. (rfv-sense, Is this right? Could not find any proof. Hekaheka Jul 4, 2007)
- A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- A military air unit, smaller than a division but larger than a group or squadron.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (context, nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (context, hockey, football, icehockey) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
verb
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (intransitive) wing it: To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise.
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noun
- (football) A player who doubles as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking.
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noun
- (nautical) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
- We hauled out a of grog.
- (sports) An offensive player who plays on either side of the center.
- The center passed to the left , who shot and scored.
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noun - The post that marks the end of a racecourse, sometimes equipped with a camera for recording photo finishes
| | wire |
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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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proper noun
- An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood
- An English occupational surname for a woodsman
| | World Series |
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proper noun
- (baseball) The best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, played between the National League and the American League
| | worry |
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noun (worr, ies)
- A strong feeling of anxiety.
- I'm afflicted by throughout the night.
- An instance or cause of such a feeling.
- My main is that I'll miss the train.
verb (worr, i, ed)
- (context, transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- Your dog's been worrying sheep again.
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
- Your tone of voice worries me.
- (intransitive) To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
- Stop worrying about your test, it'll be fine.
| | wrestling |
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noun
- A sport where two combatants attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed fighting using techniques of leverage, holding and pressure points.
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