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abie

acie

adie

aide

aide

noun

  1. (military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

aiea

aiea

noun

  1. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Nothocestrum.

aiel

aile

aime

aine

aire

aire

noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of air

alie

alie

intj

  1. Alternative spelling of ahlie

amie

arie

arie

noun

  1. plural of aria

avie

avie

adv

  1. (obsolete) emulously

beid

bein

bein

adj

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Wealthy; well-to-do.
  2. (Now chiefly dialectal) Well provided; comfortable; cosy.

adv

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Comfortably.

verb

  1. (transitive, Scotland) To dry.
  2. (transitive, Scotland) To render or make comfortable.

beni

beri

bice

bice

noun

  1. A cobalt blue pigment.
  2. A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.

bide

bide

verb

  1. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
  2. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
  4. (transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.
  5. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.

biel

bien

bier

bier

noun

  1. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
  2. A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
  3. A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.

bike

bike

noun

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
  2. (chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.
  3. (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike.
  4. Clipping of bicycle.
  5. Clipping of motorbike.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To ride a bike.
  2. (intransitive) To travel by bike.
  3. (transitive) To transport by bicycle.

bile

bile

noun

  1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
  2. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
  3. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  4. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

verb

  1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

bine

bine

noun

  1. (UK, slang) cigarette
  2. (botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).

bise

bise

noun

  1. A cold, dry, northerly wind in France, Switzerland, etc.
  2. Alternative form of bice (blue pigment)

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.

bize

brei

brie

brie

noun

  1. An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.

bsie

cedi

cedi

noun

  1. The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵.

ceil

ceil

noun

  1. (mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
  2. (poetic) A ceiling.

verb

  1. (mathematics) To set a higher bound.
  2. (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.

ceti

cevi

ciel

ciel

verb

  1. Alternative form of ceil

cine

cine

noun

  1. (chiefly attributive) cinefilm
  2. (medicine) Images of the heart taken by fluoroscopy.

cire

cire

noun

  1. A fabric with a glazed finish.

cise

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.

cive

cive

noun

  1. Obsolete form of chive (“the herb”).

cize

cize

noun

  1. (obsolete) bulk; largeness; size

clei

clie

debi

defi

deia

deil

deis

deli

deli

noun

  1. (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
  2. (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.

demi

demi

adj

  1. (informal) Demisexual.

noun

  1. (slang) A fifty pence piece.
  2. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters of fluid, 1/2 the volume of a standard bottle; a split.
  3. Alternative spelling of demy.

deni

deni

noun

  1. A subdivision of currency, equal to 0.01 Macedonian denar.

desi

desi

adj

  1. Alternative form of Desi

noun

  1. A particular variety of cultivated chickpea.

deti

devi

dewi

dice

dice

noun

  1. (countable, proscribed by some; standard in British English) A die.
  2. (uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
  3. (uncountable, formerly countable, cooking) That which has been diced.
  4. plural of die

verb

  1. (intransitive) To play dice.
  2. (transitive) To cut into small cubes.
  3. (transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

dieb

dieb

noun

  1. A canine of northern Africa, the African golden wolf (Canis lupaster, formerly considered an African variant of the golden jackal, Canis aureus).

died

died

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of die

diel

diel

adj

  1. (biology) Having a 24-hour period regardless of day or night.

diem

dier

dier

noun

  1. One who dies.

dies

dies

noun

  1. plural of die (when used in the sense of a pattern / of obsolete spelling of dye)

verb

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

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.

dieu

dike

dike

noun

  1. (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
  2. (US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
  3. (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
  4. Alternative form of dyke: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.

verb

  1. (US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.
  2. (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.

dime

dime

noun

  1. (American football) A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
  2. (Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
  3. (Canada, US) A small amount of money.
  4. (US) A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
  5. (US, basketball) An assist.
  6. (US, slang) A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
  7. (slang) A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
  8. (slang) A playing card with the rank of ten.
  9. (slang) A ten year prison sentence.
  10. (slang) A thousand dollars.
  11. (slang) Payment responsibility.
  12. (slang) Ten dollars.

verb

  1. (US, slang) To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
  2. (US, slang, with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.

dine

dine

noun

  1. (obsolete) dinnertime

verb

  1. (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.

dire

dire

adj

  1. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
  2. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
  3. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  4. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

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.

dive

dive

noun

  1. (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
  2. (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
  3. (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
  4. A decline.
  5. A downward swooping motion.
  6. A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
  7. A jump or plunge into water.
  8. A swim under water.
  9. Obsolete form of daeva.
  10. plural of diva

verb

  1. (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
  2. (figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
  3. (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
  4. (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  5. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
  6. To descend sharply or steeply.
  7. To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
  8. To jump into water head-first.
  9. To swim under water.

drie

drie

adj

  1. Archaic spelling of dry.

eadi

easi

eddi

edie

edie

Proper noun

  1. name, also used as a formal given name.

edif

edik

edin

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.

efik

efis

egin

egis

egis

noun

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of aegis.

eide

eigh

eigh

intj

  1. Alternative form of eh

eila

eild

eild

noun

  1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Age.

eine

eire

eiry

eisa

eisa

noun

  1. A form of Okinawan folk dance.

eisb

eisk

eiss

eits

ekoi

ekoi

Noun

  1. An ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.

elhi

elhi

noun

  1. (education) In some countries, the period from elementary school to high school.

elia

elie

elik

elis

elix

elix

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.

eliz

elli

elsi

emic

emic

adj

  1. (social sciences, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.

emie

emil

emim

emir

emir

noun

  1. A descendant of the prophet Muhammad.
  2. A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation.

emit

emit

verb

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

emmi

enid

enid

noun

  1. (zoology) Any snail in the family Enidae.

enif

enif

Proper noun

  1. Epsilon Pegasi, an orange supergiant star in the constellation of Pegasus.

enki

enki

Proper noun

  1. A god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

eoin

epic

epic

adj

  1. (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.
  2. (colloquial, slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.
  3. Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character
  4. Of or relating to an epic.

noun

  1. (computing) In software development, a large or extended user story.
  2. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.
  3. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

epil

epis

epis

noun

  1. plural of epi

epit

epri

epsi

eria

eric

eric

noun

  1. (historical) A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.

erie

erik

erin

eris

esdi

esis

etic

etic

adj

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

etsi

etti

etui

etui

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of étui

evie

evie

Proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Eva, Eve, Evelyn and Evangeline, also used as a formal given name.

evil

evil

adj

  1. (computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
  2. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
  3. Intending to harm; malevolent.
  4. Morally corrupt.
  5. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
  6. Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

adv

  1. (obsolete) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
  2. (obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
  3. (obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously

noun

  1. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
  2. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
  3. Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.

evin

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.

ezri

feif

feil

fein

feis

feis

noun

  1. (Ireland) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
  2. (Ireland) An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.

femi

fice

fice

noun

  1. (US regional) A small, snappy, belligerent, mixed-breed dog.

fide

fied

fied

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of fy

fief

fief

noun

  1. (figurative) A territory, a domain, an area over which one exercises lordly control, particularly with regard to corporate or governmental bureaucracies.
  2. (figurative) Synonym of estate: any land, when considered as a region over which the owner exercises lordly control.
  3. (law, historical) Land held of a superior, particularly on condition of homage, fealty, and personal service, especially military service.

fiel

fife

fife

noun

  1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

num

  1. Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire.

verb

  1. To play this instrument.

fike

fike

noun

  1. (UK dialectal) A sore place on the foot.
  2. (UK dialectal) Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
  3. (obsolete) A fig.
  4. Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
  2. (transitive) To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.

file

file

noun

  1. (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
  2. (chess) one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
  3. (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
  4. (computing) The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.
  5. (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
  6. (slang, archaic) A cunning or resourceful person.
  7. A collection of papers collated and archived together.
  8. A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
  9. A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
  10. A roll or list.
  11. A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
  12. Course of thought; thread of narration.

verb

  1. (archaic) To defile.
  2. (intransitive) To move in a file.
  3. (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
  4. (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
  5. (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
  6. (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
  7. (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
  8. (transitive) To submit (a story) to a newspaper or similar publication.
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
  10. To corrupt.

fine

fine

adj

  1. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
  2. (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
  3. (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
  4. (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
  5. (obsolete) Showy; overdecorated.
  6. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
  7. (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
  8. An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
  9. Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
  10. Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
  11. Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
  12. Made of slender or thin filaments.
  13. Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
  14. Of superior quality.
  15. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
  16. Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.

adv

  1. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
  2. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
  3. Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
  4. Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.

noun

  1. (Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
  2. (UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
  3. (feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
  4. (music) The end of a musical composition.
  5. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
  6. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
  7. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
  8. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
  9. Fine champagne; French brandy.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
  2. (intransitive) To pay a fine.
  3. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
  6. (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
  7. (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
  8. (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
  9. To change by fine gradations.
  10. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.

fire

fire

adj

  1. (slang) Amazing; excellent.

noun

  1. (astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
  2. (countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
  3. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
  4. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
  5. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
  6. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
  7. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
  8. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
  9. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
  10. A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
  11. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
  12. Red coloration in a piece of opal.
  13. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
  14. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.

verb

  1. (astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
  2. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
  3. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
  4. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
  5. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
  6. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
  7. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
  8. (transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
  9. (transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
  10. (transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
  11. (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
  12. (transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
  13. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
  14. (transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
  15. (transitive, farriery) To cauterize.
  16. (transitive, intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
  17. (transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
  18. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
  19. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
  20. To feed or serve the fire of.