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Synonyms of the word 
WAD → ARRANGE - BATCH - BIT - BITE - BUNDLE - CHAW - CHEW - COMPACT - CRAM - CUD - DEAL - FLOCK - HATFUL - HEAP - JAM - JAMPACK - LOT - MASS - MATERIAL - MESS - MICKLE - MINT - MORSEL - MUCKLE - PACK - PECK - PILE - PLENTY - PLUG - POT - QUID - RAFT - RAM - SIGHT - SLEW - SPATE - STACK - STUFFwad- 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.
arrange- v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
- v. To put in order, to organize.
- v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
- v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…
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.
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).
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,…
bundle- n. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- n. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- n. (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- n. (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
- n. (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
- n. A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).
- n. (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- v. To tie or wrap together.
- v. To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- v. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
- v. (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
- v. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up.
- v. (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- v. (intransitive) To hurry.
- v. (slang) To dogpile.
- v. (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
- v. (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
chaw- n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- n. (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
- n. (obsolete) The jaw.
- v. (archaic or nonstandard) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ…
- v. To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
- v. (Britain, slang) To steal.
chew- v. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break…
- v. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
- v. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- n. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- n. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- n. (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
compact- n. An agreement or contract.
- adj. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
- adj. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- adj. (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
- adj. (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
- adj. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
- adj. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
- adj. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
- n. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's…
- n. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- v. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
- v. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
cram- n. The act of cramming.
- n. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
- n. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- n. (dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
- v. (transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another;…
- v. (transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
- v. (transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for…
- v. To study hard; to swot.
- v. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of…
- v. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
- v. (dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
cud- n. The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach,…
- v. (transitive) To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.
- v. (informal) Alternative form of could.
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.
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.
jam- n. A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used…
- n. (countable) A difficult situation.
- n. (countable) Blockage, congestion.
- n. (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- n. (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- n. (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- n. (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- n. (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- n. (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- n. (Britain, slang) luck.
- n. (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- v. To get something stuck in a confined space.
- v. To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
- v. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- v. To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
- v. (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- v. (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- v. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- v. (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- v. (nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- v. (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- n. (dated) A kind of frock for children.
- n. (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
jampack- v. Alternative spelling of jam-pack.
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.
material- adj. Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
- adj. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
- adj. (law, accounting) Significant.
- n. Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
- n. Text written for a specific purpose.
- n. A sample or specimens for study.
- n. Cloth to be made into a garment.
- n. A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
- n. Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
- n. The substance that something is made or composed of.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.
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.
morsel- n. A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
- n. A very small amount.
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.
pack- n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for…
- n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack.
- n. a multitude.
- n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
- n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- n. A group of Cub Scouts.
- n. A shook of cask staves.
- n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack,…
- n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- n. (rugby) The team on the field.
- v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
- v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
- v. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
- v. To move, send or carry.
- v. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- v. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis or other manbulge-causing…
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.
plug- n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
- n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
- n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
- n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
- n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
- n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
- n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
- n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
- v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
- v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
- v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
- v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.
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.
quid- n. The inherent nature of something.
- n. (US, historical) A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid).
- n. (historical) A sovereign or guinea.
- n. (Britain, colloquial) Pound sterling.
- n. (Australia, colloquial) pound (before the 1966 currency change).
- n. (Ireland, colloquial) pound, punt.
- n. (Ireland, colloquial) euro.
- n. A piece of chewing tobacco.
- n. (US, colloquial) the act of chewing such tobacco.
- v. To chew tobacco.
- v. (of a horse) To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing.
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.
ram- n. A male sheep.
- n. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
- n. A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
- n. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
- n. A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, a steam hammer, a stamp mill.
- v. (transitive) To intentionally collide with (a ship) with the intention of damaging or sinking it.
- v. (transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
- v. (transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
- v. (slang) To penetrate sexually.
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.
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.
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.
stuff- n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
- n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
- n. Abstract substance or character.
- n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
- n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
- n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
- n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
- n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
- n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
- v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
- v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
- v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
- v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
- v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.
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