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abet

abet

noun

  1. (obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
  2. (obsolete) Fraud or cunning.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
  3. (transitive) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
  4. (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.

adet

aget

ahet

anet

anet

noun

  1. The herb dill, or dillseed.

ante

ante

noun

  1. (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.
  2. A price or cost, as in up the ante.

verb

  1. To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
  2. To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.

aret

aret

verb

  1. (obsolete) To impute (something) as a fault to or upon someone.

arte

ated

ated

verb

  1. (childish) simple past tense and past participle of eat

atef

atef

noun

  1. The feathered white crown of the Ancient Egyptian deity Osiris.

aten

ates

atle

atte

aute

bate

bate

noun

  1. A vat which contains this liquid.
  2. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
  3. Strife; contention.

verb

  1. (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
  2. (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
  3. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
  4. (intransitive, slang) To masturbate.
  5. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of beat; = beat.
  6. (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
  7. (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
  8. (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
  9. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
  10. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
  11. To deprive of.
  12. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
  13. To waste away.

beat

beat

adj

  1. (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.
  2. (US slang) Exhausted.
  3. (slang) Boring.
  4. (slang, of a person) Ugly.
  5. Dilapidated, beat up.
  6. Relating to the Beat Generation.

noun

  1. (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
  2. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
  3. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
  4. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
  5. (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
  6. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
  7. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
  8. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
  9. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
  10. (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
  11. (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
  12. (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
  13. (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
  14. A beatnik.
  15. A pulsation or throb.
  16. A rhythm.
  17. A stroke; a blow.
  18. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
  19. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
  20. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

verb

  1. (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
  2. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  4. (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
  5. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
  6. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
  7. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
  8. (transitive) To hit; to strike.
  9. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
  10. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
  11. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
  12. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
  13. (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
  14. (transitive, slang) To rob.
  15. To be in agitation or doubt.
  16. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  17. To make a sound when struck.
  18. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
  19. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
  20. To tread, as a path.
  21. simple past tense of beat

beet

beet

noun

  1. (US, Canada) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
  2. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

verb

  1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
  2. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
  3. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.

belt

belt

noun

  1. (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
  2. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
  3. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
  4. (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
  5. (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
  6. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
  7. (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
  8. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
  9. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
  10. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
  11. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
  12. A quick drink of liquor.
  13. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
  14. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

verb

  1. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
  2. (transitive) To encircle.
  3. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
  4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
  5. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
  6. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
  7. (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
  8. (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.

bent

bent

adj

  1. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
  2. (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
  3. (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
  4. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
  5. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
  6. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
  7. (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
  8. Determined or insistent.

noun

  1. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  2. A grassy area, grassland.
  3. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
  4. An inclination or talent.
  5. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
  6. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  7. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
  8. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
  9. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  10. The old dried stalks of grasses.
  11. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of bend

bert

best

best

adj

  1. Most superior; most favorable.
  2. Most; largest.
  3. superlative form of good: most good.

adv

  1. To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
  2. superlative form of well: most well

noun

  1. (countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
  2. (uncountable) One's best behavior.
  3. (uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.

verb

  1. (modal verb, colloquial) Had best.
  2. (transitive) To beat in a contest.
  3. To surpass in skill or achievement.

beta

beta

adj

  1. (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
  2. (of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
  3. Designates the second in an order of precedence.
  4. Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.

noun

  1. (aviation) Sideslip angle.
  2. (aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
  3. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
  4. (computing, video games, countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
  5. (computing, video games, uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
  6. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
  7. (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
  8. (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
  9. (slang, manosphere, masculism) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
  10. Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
  11. The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
  12. Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.

verb

  1. (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
  2. (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.

bete

bete

verb

  1. Obsolete spelling of beat
  2. Obsolete spelling of beet

beth

beth

noun

  1. The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁
  2. The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב
  3. The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ

bets

bets

noun

  1. plural of bet

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bet

bett

betz

bite

bite

noun

  1. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
  2. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
  3. (figuratively) aggression
  4. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
  5. (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
  6. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
  7. (slang) Something unpleasant.
  8. (television) Short for sound bite.
  9. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
  10. A small meal or snack.
  11. The act of biting.
  12. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
  13. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
  14. The wound left behind after having been bitten.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
  2. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
  3. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
  4. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
  5. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
  6. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
  7. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
  8. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
  9. (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
  10. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
  11. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
  12. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
  13. (obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
  14. (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
  15. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
  16. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
  17. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
  18. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

blet

blet

verb

  1. To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.

bmet

bnet

bote

bote

noun

  1. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
  2. A right to take wood from property not one's own.
  3. Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.

bret

bute

bute

noun

  1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

byte

byte

noun

  1. (computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
  2. (computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

cate

cate

noun

  1. (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.

celt

celt

noun

  1. A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.

cent

cent

noun

  1. (informal) A small sum of money.
  2. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
  3. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
  4. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
  5. (music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
  6. (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
  7. (obsolete, except in per cent) Abbreviation of centum. One hundred.
  8. Abbreviation of center.
  9. Abbreviation of centigrade.
  10. Abbreviation of century.

cert

cert

adj

  1. Alternative form of cert.

noun

  1. (informal) A certainty; something guaranteed to happen.
  2. (informal) Certificate.

cest

cest

noun

  1. (obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.

ceta

cete

cete

noun

  1. (obsolete) A company of badgers.
  2. (rare) A cetacean.

ceti

ceto

chet

chet

noun

  1. (MLE, slang) Clipping of chete (“knife”).

cite

cite

noun

  1. (informal) a citation

verb

  1. to list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  2. to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  3. to summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

cote

cote

noun

  1. A cottage or hut.
  2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.

verb

  1. Obsolete form of quote.
  2. To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.

ctge

ctne

cute

cute

adj

  1. (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
  2. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
  3. Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
  4. Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
  5. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
  6. Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.

date

date

noun

  1. (obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
  2. (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
  3. A point in time.
  4. A pre-arranged meeting.
  5. A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
  6. A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
  7. One's companion for social activities or occasions.
  8. The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
  9. The date palm.
  10. The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.

verb

  1. (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
  2. (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
  3. (transitive) To determine the age of something.
  4. (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
  5. (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
  6. (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
  7. (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
  8. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.

debt

debt

noun

  1. (finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
  2. (law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
  3. An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
  4. The state or condition of owing something to another.

deet

deet

noun

  1. (informal, usually in the plural) Abbreviation of detail.

deft

deft

adj

  1. Quick and neat in action; skillful.

dent

dent

noun

  1. (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
  2. (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
  3. (figurative) A minor impact or effect made upon something.
  4. (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
  5. A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
  6. A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
  2. (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.

dept

dept

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of dept.

detd

deth

deth

noun

  1. Obsolete form of death.

deti

detn

dett

deut

diet

diet

adj

  1. (informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.
  2. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.

noun

  1. (Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
  2. (Scotland) A session of exams
  3. (Scotland, law) The proceedings under a criminal libel.
  4. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
  5. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  6. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  7. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  2. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
  4. (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

dite

dite

noun

  1. (US, New England) A trifling quantity or amount.

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready.

dote

dote

noun

  1. (Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
  2. (obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.

verb

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
  2. (intransitive, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

duet

duet

noun

  1. (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
  2. (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
  3. A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To perform a duet.
  2. (intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
  3. (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
  4. (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.

east

east

adj

  1. (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.
  2. (meteorology) Blowing (as wind) from the east.
  3. From the East; oriental.
  4. Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
  5. Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.

adv

  1. towards the east; eastwards

noun

  1. One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox.
  2. The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.

eath

eath

adj

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Easy; not hard or difficult.

adv

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Easily.

eats

eats

noun

  1. (colloquial) Food.

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eat

echt

echt

adj

  1. proper, real, genuine, true to type

ecpt

edit

edit

noun

  1. (comedy) An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
  2. (computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
  3. (genetics) An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
  4. A change to the text of a document.
  5. An edited piece of media, especially video footage.

verb

  1. (biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  2. (comedy) To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  3. (computing) To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. (ergative) To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
  5. (transitive) To be the editor of a publication.
  6. To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
  7. To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
  8. To change a text, or a document.

edta

edta

Noun

  1. of and ethylenediaminetetraacetate

eect

efta

efts

efts

noun

  1. plural of eft

eits

ekts

elat

emet

emit

emit

verb

  1. (intransitive) To come out, to be sent out or given off.
  2. (transitive) To send out or give off.

empt

empt

verb

  1. (obsolete) To empty.

enet

entr

eott

epit

epts

eqpt

erat

erst

erst

adj

  1. (obsolete) First.

adv

  1. (archaic, poetic) Formerly, once, erstwhile.
  2. (obsolete) First of all, before (some other specified thing).
  3. (obsolete) Sooner (than); before.

erth

esta

este

este

noun

  1. Alternative form of est

esth

etam

etan

etas

etas

noun

  1. plural of eta

etch

etch

noun

  1. Obsolete form of eddish.

verb

  1. (figuratively) To make a lasting impression.
  2. To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
  3. To engrave a surface.
  4. To sketch; to delineate.

etem

etem

noun

  1. The fungicide ethylenethiuram monosulfide.

eten

etfd

ethe

ethe

adj

  1. (obsolete) easy

noun

  1. plural of ethos

eths

eths

noun

  1. plural of eth

etic

etic

adj

  1. (social sciences, anthropology) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.

etka

etla

etna

etna

noun

  1. A kind of small, portable cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.

etom

eton

etra

etsi

etta

etti

etty

etua

etui

etui

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of étui

etym

etym

noun

  1. An etymon.

ewte

ewte

verb

  1. (dialectal) To pour; pour in

exit

exit

noun

  1. (figuratively, often euphemistic) The act of departing from life; death.
  2. (road transport) A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
  3. (specifically, drama) The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
  4. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
  5. An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.

verb

  1. (bridge, intransitive) To give up the lead.
  2. (intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
  3. (intransitive, drama, also figuratively) Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
  4. (intransitive, often euphemistic) To depart from life; to die.
  5. (theater) To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
  6. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
  7. (transitive, originally US, also figuratively) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
  8. (transitive, specifically) To alight or disembark from a vehicle.

expt

exta

extg

extg

noun

  1. Abbreviation of (fire) extinguisher.

eyot

eyot

noun

  1. (chiefly Britain) A little island, especially in a river or lake.

fate

fate

noun

  1. (biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
  2. (embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
  3. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
  4. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
  5. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  6. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  7. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

verb

  1. (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

feat

feat

adj

  1. (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.

noun

  1. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
  2. (transitive, informal) To feature.

feet

feet

noun

  1. (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat.
  2. plural of foot

felt

felt

adj

  1. That has been experienced or perceived.

noun

  1. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
  2. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
  3. A felt-tip pen.
  4. A hat made of felt.

verb

  1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
  2. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
  3. (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.
  4. simple past tense and past participle of feel

fent

fent

noun

  1. (UK, dialect) A remnant; an odd piece left over.
  2. (UK, dialect) A slit or crack.
  3. (slang) The drug fentanyl.

fest

fest

noun

  1. (in combination) A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.
  2. (in combination) An event in which the act denoted by the previous noun occurs.

feta

feta

noun

  1. A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece.

fete

fete

noun

  1. A feast, celebration or carnival.
  2. A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.

verb

  1. (transitive, usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).

fets

fets

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fet

flet

flet

noun

  1. (rare or dialectal) A house; home.
  2. (rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.

fret

fret

noun

  1. (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
  2. (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
  3. (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
  4. (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
  5. (obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
  6. (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
  7. A channel, a strait; a fretum.
  8. Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
  9. Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
  10. An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
  11. Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
  2. (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
  3. (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
  4. (intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
  5. (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
  6. (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
  7. (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
  8. (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
  9. (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
  10. (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
  11. (transitive, intransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
  12. (transitive, intransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
  13. (transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
  14. To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
  15. To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
  16. To press down the string behind a fret.

fute

fute

verb

  1. (obsolete) To whistle.

gaet

gate

gate

noun

  1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
  2. (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
  3. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  4. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  5. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  6. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  8. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  9. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
  10. (obsolete) A journey.
  11. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  12. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
  13. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
  14. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  15. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  16. Movable barrier.
  17. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  18. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  19. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

verb

  1. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
  2. (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  3. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
  4. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
  5. (transitive, biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.

geat

geat

noun

  1. The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting.

geet

geet

adj

  1. (Tyneside) great

adv

  1. (Tyneside) very

gelt

gelt

noun

  1. (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
  2. (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
  3. (obsolete) Gilding; gilt.
  4. (originally UK, especially thieves' cant and Polari, later Judaism and general slang) Money.
  5. (rare) A lunatic.
  6. A gelding.
  7. Tribute; tax.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of geld

gent

gent

adj

  1. (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
  2. (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant

noun

  1. (colloquial) A gentleman.
  2. (medicine, colloquial) Short for gentamicin.

gert

gert

adj

  1. (slang, West Country, Somerset, Bristol) big

adv

  1. (slang, West Country, Somerset, Bristol) very

gest

gest

noun

  1. (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
  2. (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
  3. (archaic) bearing; deportment
  4. (obsolete) A gesture or action.
  5. (obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
  6. (obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.

geta

geta

noun

  1. (game of Go) A technique for capturing stones by enclosing them in a “net” preventing them from escaping in any direction.
  2. A Japanese raised wooden clog, worn with traditional Japanese garments such as the kimono.

geth

gets

gets

noun

  1. plural of get

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of get

gite

gite

noun

  1. (obsolete) A gown.
  2. Alternative form of gîte

gote

gote

noun

  1. (UK dialectal) A drainage pipe.
  2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A deep miry place.
  3. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.

gret

gyte

haet

haet

verb

  1. (Internet slang, emphatic) hate

hate

hate

noun

  1. (Internet slang) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
  2. An object of hatred.
  3. Hatred.

verb

  1. (informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Used in a phrasal verb: hate on.
  2. (intransitive) To experience hatred.
  3. (transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.

heat

heat

noun

  1. (countable) A hot spell.
  2. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
  3. (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
  4. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
  5. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
  6. (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
  7. (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
  8. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
  9. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
  10. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
  11. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
  12. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
  13. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
  14. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
  15. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
  16. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
  17. (uncountable, slang) The police.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To become hotter.
  2. (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
  3. (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  5. (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).

heft

heft

noun

  1. (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).
  2. (US, dated, colloquial) The greater part or bulk of anything.
  3. (West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.
  4. (figurative) Influence; importance.
  5. (uncountable) Weight.
  6. A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
  7. A part of a serial publication.
  8. An animal that has become hefted thus.
  9. Heaviness, the feel of weight; heftiness.
  10. The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.

verb

  1. (obsolete) past participle of heave
  2. (transitive) To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.
  3. (transitive) To test the weight of something by lifting it.
  4. (transitive, Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.

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