Synonyms of the word slew


SLEWBATCH - CURVE - CUT - DEAL - FLOCK - GLIDE - HATFUL - HEAP - LOT - MASS - MESS - MICKLE - MINT - MUCKLE - PECK - PILE - PLENTY - POT - RAFT - SHEER - SIGHT - SKID - SLIDE - SLIP - SLUE - SPATE - STACK - SWERVE - TREND - TURN - VEER - WAD

slew

  • n. (US) A large amount.
  • n. The act, or process of slaying.
  • n. A device used for slaying.
  • n. A change of position.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
  • v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
  • v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
  • v. (intransitive) To pivot.
  • v. (intransitive) To skid.
  • v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
  • v. simple past tense of slay.
  • n. A wet place; a river inlet.

batch

  • n. A bank; a sandbank.
  • n. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
  • n. (obsolete) The process of baking.
  • n. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
  • n. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
  • n. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
  • n. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
  • n. (Philippines) A graduating class.
  • v. To aggregate things together into a batch.
  • v. (computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
  • adj. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
  • v. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

curve

  • adj. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
  • n. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
  • n. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
  • n. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution…
  • n. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
  • n. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional…
  • n. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
  • n. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
  • n. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
  • v. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
  • v. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
  • v. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
  • v. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

cut

  • adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
  • adj. Reduced.
  • adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
  • adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
  • adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
  • adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
  • adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
  • adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
  • adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
  • adj. Removed from a team roster.
  • adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
  • n. An opening resulting from cutting.
  • n. The act of cutting.
  • n. The result of cutting.
  • n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
  • n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
  • n. A share or portion.
  • n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
  • n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
  • n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
  • n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
  • n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
  • n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
  • n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
  • n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
  • n. A slab, especially of meat.
  • n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
  • n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
  • n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
  • n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
  • n. A haircut.
  • n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
  • n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
  • n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
  • n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
  • n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • n. A skein of yarn.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
  • v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
  • v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
  • v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
  • v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
  • v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To write.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
  • v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
  • v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
  • v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

deal

  • n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
  • n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  • v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  • v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  • v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  • v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  • v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  • v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
  • n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
  • n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  • n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
  • n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  • n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  • n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  • n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  • n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
  • adj. Made of deal.

flock

  • n. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
  • n. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
  • n. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
  • n. A large number of people.
  • v. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
  • v. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
  • n. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
  • n. A lock of wool or hair.
  • n. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating…
  • v. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

glide

  • v. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
  • v. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to glide.
  • v. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
  • n. The act of gliding.
  • n. (phonology) Semivowel.
  • n. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant…
  • n. A bird, the glede or kite.
  • n. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.

hatful

  • n. The amount that will fit into a hat.
  • n. (soccer, Britain) A large number (usually talking about goalscoring chances).

heap

  • n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  • n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  • n. A great number or large quantity of things.
  • n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  • n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  • n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  • n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
  • v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
  • v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

lot

  • n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  • n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
  • n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  • n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
  • n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  • n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
  • n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
  • n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
  • n. A prize in a lottery.
  • n. Allotment; lottery.
  • n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
  • n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
  • v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  • v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

mass

  • n. (physical) Matter, material.
  • n. A large quantity; a sum.
  • n. (quantity) Large in number.
  • v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
  • v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
  • adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
  • adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
  • n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
  • n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
  • n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

mess

  • n. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
  • n. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one…
  • n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel…
  • n. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
  • n. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
  • v. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
  • v. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
  • v. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
  • v. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
  • n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding;…
  • n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
  • n. (euphemistic) Excrement.
  • v. (transitive) To make a mess of.
  • v. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
  • v. (intransitive) To interfere.

mickle

  • n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
  • n. (Scotland) A small amount.
  • n. (obsolete) Important or great people as a class.
  • n. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.
  • pron. (now chiefly Scotland) A large amount or great extent.
  • adv. (now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.
  • adv. (obsolete) Often, frequently.

mint

  • v. (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
  • v. (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try…
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
  • n. (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
  • n. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
  • n. (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
  • n. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
  • v. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
  • v. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
  • adj. (of condition) as new.
  • adj. (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
  • adj. (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Very good.
  • n. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
  • n. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
  • n. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
  • n. A green colour, like that of mint.
  • n. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
  • adj. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

muckle

  • n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
  • adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
  • adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
  • v. (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
  • v. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

peck

  • v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
  • v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
  • v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
  • v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
  • v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
  • v. To type by searching for each key individually.
  • v. (rare) To type in general.
  • v. To kiss briefly.
  • n. An act of pecking.
  • n. A small kiss.
  • n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
  • n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
  • v. (regional) To throw.
  • v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
  • n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
  • n. Misspelling of pec.

pile

  • n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  • n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
  • n. A mass formed in layers.
  • n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  • n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
  • n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
  • n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  • n. (figuratively) A list or league.
  • v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
  • v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  • v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  • v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  • v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
  • n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  • n. The head of an arrow or spear.
  • n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
  • n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
  • v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
  • n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
  • n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
  • n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

plenty

  • n. A more than adequate amount.
  • pron. More than enough.
  • adv. More than sufficiently.
  • adv. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
  • adj. (obsolete) plentiful.

pot

  • n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
  • n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly.
  • n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
  • n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
  • n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail…
  • n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively)…
  • n. (Britain, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
  • n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
  • n. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
  • n. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
  • n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
  • n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
  • v. To put (something) into a pot.
  • v. To preserve by bottling or canning.
  • v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted.
  • v. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
  • v. (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  • v. (obsolete, dialect, Britain) To tipple; to drink.
  • v. (transitive) To drain.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during…
  • v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
  • n. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to…
  • n. (role-playing games) Clipping of potion.

raft

  • n. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies…
  • n. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
  • n. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
  • n. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
  • v. (transitive) to convey on a raft.
  • v. (transitive) to make into a raft.
  • v. (intransitive) to travel by raft.
  • n. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of reave.

sheer

  • adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
  • adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
  • adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
  • adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
  • adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
  • adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
  • n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
  • n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
  • v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
  • v. (obsolete) To shear.

sight

  • n. (in the singular) The ability to see.
  • n. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
  • n. Something seen.
  • n. Something worth seeing; a spectacle.
  • n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
  • n. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
  • n. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
  • n. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame…
  • n. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
  • n. Mental view; opinion; judgment.
  • v. (transitive) To register visually.
  • v. (transitive) To get sight of (something).
  • v. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction…
  • v. (transitive) To take aim at.

skid

  • n. An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
  • n. A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its…
  • n. (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
  • n. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
  • v. (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.
  • v. (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
  • v. (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.

slide

  • v. (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
  • v. (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
  • v. (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
  • v. (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
  • v. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
  • n. An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
  • n. A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
  • n. The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
  • n. An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a…
  • n. A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
  • n. The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
  • n. A lever that can be moved in two directions.
  • n. A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
  • n. A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
  • n. (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may…
  • n. (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base.
  • n. (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
  • n. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
  • n. (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
  • n. (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal…
  • n. (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly…
  • n. A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
  • n. (footwear) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.

slip

  • n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
  • n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
  • n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
  • n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
  • n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
  • n. A long, thin piece of something.
  • n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
  • n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
  • v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
  • v. (intransitive) To err.
  • v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
  • v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
  • v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
  • v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
  • v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
  • v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
  • n. An act or instance of slipping.
  • n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
  • n. A slipdress.
  • n. A mistake or error.
  • n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
  • n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
  • n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
  • n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
  • n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
  • n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
  • n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
  • n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
  • n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
  • n. An outside covering or case.
  • n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
  • n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
  • n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
  • n. A particular quantity of yarn.
  • n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
  • n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
  • n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
  • n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
  • n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
  • n. A fish, the sole.

slue

  • v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
  • v. (transitive) To turn something sharply.
  • v. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
  • v. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
  • n. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
  • n. A slough; a run or wet place.

spate

  • n. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
  • n. A sudden rush or increase.

stack

  • n. (heading) A pile.
  • n. A smokestack.
  • n. (heading) In digital computing.
  • n. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
  • n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
  • n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
  • n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
  • n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
  • n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
  • n. (heading) In architecture.
  • n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
  • n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  • v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
  • v. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  • v. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  • v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

swerve

  • v. (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
  • v. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
  • v. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law,…
  • v. To bend; to incline.
  • v. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
  • v. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
  • v. of a projectile, to travel in a curved line.
  • n. A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.

trend

  • n. An inclination in a particular direction.
  • n. A tendency.
  • n. A fad or fashion style.
  • n. (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
  • n. (nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat…
  • n. (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she…
  • v. (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.
  • v. (Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or…
  • n. (Britain, dialect, dated) clean wool.
  • v. To cleanse, as wool.

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.

veer

  • v. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
  • n. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
  • v. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
  • v. (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a…
  • v. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
  • v. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
  • v. (transitive) To turn.

wad

  • n. An amorphous, compact mass.
  • n. A substantial pile (normally of money).
  • n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
  • n. (slang) A sandwich.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
  • n. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…
  • v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
  • v. (Ulster) To wager.
  • v. To insert or force a wad into.
  • v. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

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