Synonyms of the word bit


BITACT - BITE - CASE - CHIP - EXAMPLE - FLAKE - FLECK - FRAGMENT - INSTANCE - MINUTE - MOMENT - MORSEL - MOUTHFUL - NUMBER - PERFORMANCE - PIECE - ROUTINE - SADDLERY - SCRAP - SECOND - SNATCH - SPOT - TACK - TASTE - TIME - TURN - UNIT

bit

  • n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
  • n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
  • n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
  • n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
  • n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
  • n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
  • n. A small amount of something.
  • n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
  • n. A portion of something.
  • n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
  • n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
  • n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
  • n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
  • n. The cutting iron of a plane.
  • adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
  • v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
  • v. simple past tense of bite.
  • v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
  • adj. (colloquial) bitten.
  • adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
  • n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
  • n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
  • n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
  • n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
  • n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

bite

  • v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
  • v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
  • v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
  • v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
  • v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
  • v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
  • v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
  • v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
  • v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
  • v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
  • v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
  • v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
  • v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
  • v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
  • n. The act of biting.
  • n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
  • n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
  • n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
  • n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
  • n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
  • n. A small meal or snack.
  • n. (figuratively) aggression.
  • n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
  • n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
  • n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
  • n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

case

  • n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
  • n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
  • n. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
  • n. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
  • n. (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
  • n. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
  • n. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
  • n. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
  • v. (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
  • n. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
  • n. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
  • n. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
  • n. An enclosing frame or casing.
  • n. A suitcase.
  • n. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be…
  • n. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
  • n. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally…
  • n. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case)…
  • n. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
  • n. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid…
  • n. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
  • n. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
  • adj. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
  • v. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
  • v. (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for…

chip

  • n. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
  • n. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
  • n. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
  • n. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
  • n. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised…
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square…
  • n. (US, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes…
  • n. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to…
  • n. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
  • n. A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
  • n. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
  • n. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
  • n. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent…
  • n. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
  • n. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making…
  • n. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
  • n. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
  • v. (transitive) To break into small pieces.
  • v. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
  • v. (transitive, sports) In association football, specifically, to play a shot on goal by kicking the ball…
  • v. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
  • v. (intransitive) To become chipped.
  • v. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.

example

  • n. Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
  • n. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
  • n. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated…
  • n. A person punished as a warning to others.
  • n. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
  • n. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise…
  • v. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

flake

  • n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
  • n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
  • n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  • n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
  • n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  • v. To break or chip off in a flake.
  • v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  • v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
  • v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
  • n. (Britain) Dogfish.
  • n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
  • n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
  • n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  • n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

fleck

  • n. A flake.
  • n. A lock, as of wool.
  • n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

fragment

  • n. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
  • n. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
  • n. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
  • v. (intransitive) To break apart.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

instance

  • n. (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
  • n. (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
  • n. Occasion; order of occurrence.
  • n. A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
  • n. One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
  • n. (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
  • n. (computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local…
  • n. (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each…
  • n. (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
  • v. (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite.
  • v. (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.

minute

  • n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
  • n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
  • n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
  • n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent…
  • n. A point in time; a moment.
  • n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
  • n. An old coin, a half farthing.
  • n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
  • n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
  • n. (slang, US, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
  • v. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
  • v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
  • adj. Very small.
  • adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

moment

  • n. A brief, unspecified amount of time.
  • n. The smallest portion of time; an instant.
  • n. Weight or importance.
  • n. (physics, mechanics) The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the…
  • n. (historical) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth…
  • n. (informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
  • n. (colloquial) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.
  • n. (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
  • n. (mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

morsel

  • n. A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
  • n. A very small amount.

mouthful

  • n. The amount that will fit in a mouth.
  • n. (slang) Quite a bit.
  • n. Something difficult to pronounce or say.
  • n. A tirade of abusive language (especially in the term "give someone a mouthful").

number

  • n. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
  • n. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
  • n. (countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers,…
  • n. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence…
  • n. Quantity.
  • n. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
  • n. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
  • n. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
  • n. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
  • n. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
  • n. (countable, informal) A person.
  • n. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
  • n. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
  • n. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
  • v. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
  • v. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
  • adj. comparative form of numb: more numb.

performance

  • n. The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation…
  • n. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act;…
  • n. (art) A live show or concert.
  • n. The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.

piece

  • n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
  • n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
  • n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
  • n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
  • n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
  • n. An artillery gun.
  • n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
  • n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
  • n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
  • n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
  • n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
  • n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
  • n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
  • n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
  • n. (US) A pacifier.
  • n. (colloquial) A distance.
  • v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
  • v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
  • v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

routine

  • n. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  • n. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
  • n. A set piece of an entertainer's act.
  • n. (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
  • adj. According to established procedure.
  • adj. Regular; habitual.
  • adj. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

saddlery

  • n. (uncountable) The trade or craft of a saddler.
  • n. A place of business of a saddler.
  • n. The inventory and equipment of a saddler.

scrap

  • n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
  • n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
  • n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
  • n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
  • v. (transitive) To discard.
  • v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
  • v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
  • v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
  • n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
  • v. to fight.

second

  • adj. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding…
  • adj. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
  • adj. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
  • adv. (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.
  • adv. After the first occurrence but before the third.
  • n. One that is number two in a series.
  • n. One that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
  • n. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
  • n. (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
  • n. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this…
  • n. (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised…
  • n. The second gear of an engine.
  • n. (baseball) Second base.
  • v. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two.…
  • v. To follow in the next place; to succeed.
  • v. (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
  • n. One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation…
  • n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
  • n. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
  • v. (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
  • v. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two.…
  • n. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
  • n. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement…
  • n. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.

snatch

  • v. To grasp quickly.
  • v. To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
  • v. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
  • v. To grasp and remove quickly.
  • v. To steal.
  • v. (by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
  • v. To do something quickly due to limited time available.
  • n. A quick grab or catch.
  • n. (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked…
  • n. A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
  • n. (vulgar slang) A vulva.
  • n. The handle of a scythe; a snead.

spot

  • n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
  • n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
  • n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
  • n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
  • n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
  • n. A location or area.
  • n. A parking space.
  • n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
  • n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
  • n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
  • n. Difficult situation; predicament.
  • n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
  • n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
  • n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
  • n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
  • n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
  • n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
  • n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
  • n. An autosoliton.
  • n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
  • v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
  • v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
  • v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
  • v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
  • v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
  • v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
  • v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
  • v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
  • adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

tack

  • n. A small nail with a flat head.
  • n. A thumbtack.
  • n. (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
  • n. (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
  • n. (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.
  • n. A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
  • n. (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes…
  • n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
  • n. (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled;…
  • n. Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated…
  • n. (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive…
  • n. Hardtack.
  • n. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
  • n. (law, Scotland) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
  • n. (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
  • v. To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
  • v. To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
  • v. (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes…
  • v. To add something as an extra item.
  • v. Often paired with "up", to place the tack on a horse.
  • n. A stain; a tache.
  • n. (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
  • n. (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.

taste

  • n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
  • n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
  • n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
  • n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
  • v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
  • v. To experience.
  • v. To take sparingly.
  • v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
  • v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

time

  • n. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
  • n. A duration of time.
  • n. An instant of time.
  • n. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
  • n. (countable) Ratio of comparison.
  • n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
  • n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
  • v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
  • v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
  • v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
  • v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
  • v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
  • v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
  • interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

turn

  • v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
  • v. (archaic) To translate.
  • n. A change of direction or orientation.
  • n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
  • n. A single loop of a coil.
  • n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
  • n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
  • n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. A deed done to another.
  • n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  • n. Character; personality; nature.
  • n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

unit

  • n. (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
  • n. The number one.
  • n. Clipping of international unit.
  • n. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
  • n. (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
  • n. (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table…
  • n. (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
  • n. (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used.…
  • n. (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit…
  • n. (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
  • n. (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element.
  • n. (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of…
  • n. (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive…
  • n. (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
  • n. (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
  • n. (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment…
  • n. (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
  • adj. For each unit.
  • adj. (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

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