(transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.
(transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
aloft
aloft
adv
(nautical) In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.
Above, overhead, in a high place; up.
At, to, or in the air or sky.
alost
alout
altho
altho
conj
(informal, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of although
alton
altos
altro
atelo
athol
atole
atole
noun
A sweetened thick drink or thin gruel made from cornmeal, served hot
atoll
atoll
noun
a type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls
bloat
bloat
adj
(obsolete) bloated.
noun
(derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
(figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
(veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
Distention of the abdomen from death.
verb
(intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
(intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
To cause to become distended.
To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
To fill with vanity or conceit.
To increase to an excessive amount.
To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
colat
dotal
dotal
adj
Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting or comprised in dower.
float
float
noun
(Britain) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
(UK, dated) A coal cart.
(automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
(banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
(biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
(computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
(finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
(finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
(insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
(knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
(obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
(poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
(programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
(publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
(transport) A lowboy trailer.
A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
A float board.
A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
verb
(aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
(computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
(intransitive) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
(intransitive) To be capable of floating.
(intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
(intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
(intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
(intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
(intransitive, colloquial) (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
(intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
(intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
(intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
(poker) To perform a float.
(transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
(transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
(transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
(transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
(transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
(transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
(transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
(transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
flota
flota
noun
A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain products from Spanish America.
gloat
gloat
noun
An act or instance of gloating.
verb
To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.
italo
kotal
lacto
larto
laton
laton
noun
Alternative form of latten
latro
leota
lhota
loath
loath
adj
(obsolete) Angry, hostile.
(obsolete) Loathsome, unpleasant.
Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling.
verb
Obsolete spelling of loathe
loats
lomta
lotah
lotah
noun
Alternative spelling of lota (Indian water-pot)
lotan
lotas
lotas
noun
plural of lota
lotha
lotta
lotta
abbrev
(informal) Contraction of lot of.
lovat
lovat
adj
Of a dusty blue-green colour.
noun
A dusty blue-green colour.
lutao
malto
matlo
notal
notal
adj
Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.
oblat
octal
octal
adj
(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.
noun
(arithmetic, computing, countable) A digit or value in the octal number system.
(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
oleta
ontal
otila
plato
ploat
ploat
verb
To pluck or strip off.
To plunder or rifle.
rotal
rotal
adj
(Catholicism) Of or relating to the Rota.
(obsolete) Alternative form of rotary: of or relating to circular motion.
Of or relating to wheels.
noun
(historical units of measure, obsolete) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight variously equal to 1–5 lbs. (.5–2.5 kg.).
salot
salto
salto
noun
(rare) A somersault.
sloat
sloat
noun
A narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat.
stola
stola
noun
(heraldry) A bearing showing a fringed scarf.
(historical) The traditional garment of women in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the toga worn by men.
A chorister's surplice.
talao
talco
talio
talmo
talon
talon
noun
(architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
(card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.
(finance, historical) A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.
(zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
talos
tlaco
tlaco
noun
(historical) one-eighth of a Mexican real (issued until 1897)
tolan
tolar
tolar
noun
(historical) A state currency formerly used by the Republic of Slovenia between 1991 and 2006, divided into 100 stotins.
tolas
tolas
noun
plural of tola
tolna
tolna
Proper noun
A city/town in North Dakota.
tonal
tonal
adj
(linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
(music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
Of or relating to tones or tonality.
noun
(in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
toral
toral
adj
Of or pertaining to a torus
total
total
adj
(mathematics) (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.
(used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
Entire; relating to the whole of something.
noun
(informal, mathematics) Sum.
An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
verb
(intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
(transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
(transitive, US, slang) To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
To equal a total of; to amount to.
volta
volta
noun
(music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
(music, dance) A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
(poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.