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alap

alap

noun

  1. (music) The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.

alep

alop

alop

adj

  1. Leaning over on one side; lopsided.

alpo

alps

alps

noun

  1. plural of alp

appl

apul

bcpl

blip

blip

noun

  1. (Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
  2. (by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
  3. (electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
  4. A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.

verb

  1. (intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
  2. (transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”)

blup

calp

calp

noun

  1. (geology) A dark shaly limestone occurring in the Carboniferous limestone of Ireland.

clap

clap

noun

  1. (Yorkshire) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground)
  2. (falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
  3. (slang, usually with "the") Gonorrhea.
  4. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
  5. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
  6. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
  7. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
  8. The explosive sound of thunder.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To slam (a door or window); formerly often construed with to.
  2. (slang) To fornicate, copulate.
  3. (slang) To have sex.
  4. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To shoot (somebody) with a gun.
  5. To applaud.
  6. To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
  7. To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).
  8. To set or put, usually in haste.
  9. To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
  10. To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.

clep

clip

clip

noun

  1. (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
  2. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
  3. (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
  4. (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
  5. (obsolete) An embrace.
  6. (uncountable, Tyneside) The condition of something, its state.
  7. A newspaper clipping.
  8. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
  9. A season's crop of wool.
  10. A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
  11. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
  12. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
  13. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  14. The product of a single shearing of sheep.

verb

  1. (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
  2. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
  3. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  4. (computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
  5. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
  6. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  7. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
  8. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
  9. To curtail; to cut short.
  10. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  11. To fasten with a clip.
  12. To grip tightly.
  13. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
  14. to grab or take stealthily

clnp

clop

clop

noun

  1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
  2. (slang) My Little Pony-themed pornography.

verb

  1. (slang) To masturbate to My Little Pony-themed pornography.
  2. To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.

cltp

colp

colp

noun

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for colposcopy.
  2. Alternative form of collop

culp

delp

dipl

epil

flap

flap

noun

  1. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
  2. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  3. (obsolete) A young prostitute.
  4. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
  5. (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
  6. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  7. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
  8. A hinged leaf.
  9. A side fin of a ray.
  10. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  11. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

verb

  1. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
  2. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
  3. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.

flip

flip

adj

  1. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
  2. (informal) Disrespectful, flippant.
  3. Sarcastic.

intj

  1. (UK, euphemistic) Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.

noun

  1. (US, slang) A slingshot.
  2. (archaic) A fillip or light blow.
  3. (firearms, uncountable) The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.
  4. (informal) The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
  5. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
  6. A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
  7. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
  8. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").

verb

  1. (intransitive, US) To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To switch to another task, etc.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.
  4. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
  5. (transitive) To throw so as to turn over.
  6. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
  7. (transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.
  8. (transitive, computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
  9. (transitive, finance, slang) To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees.
  10. (transitive, informal) To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
  11. (transitive, informal) To hand over or pass along.

flop

flop

adv

  1. Right, squarely, flat-out.
  2. With a flopping sound.

intj

  1. Indicating the sound of something flopping.

noun

  1. (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
  2. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
  3. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  4. (slang) A flophouse.
  5. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  6. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  7. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
  2. (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
  3. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  4. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
  5. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
  6. (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
  7. (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
  8. (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).

fpla

galp

galp

verb

  1. (archaic) to gape; yawn.

glop

glop

noun

  1. (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
  2. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.

verb

  1. (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To swallow greedily.
  3. (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.

golp

golp

noun

  1. (heraldry) Alternative form of golpe

gulp

gulp

intj

  1. An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.

noun

  1. (rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.
  2. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
  3. The usual amount swallowed.

verb

  1. To react nervously by swallowing.
  2. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.

halp

halp

verb

  1. (nonstandard, humorous) Alternative spelling of help
  2. (obsolete) Alternative form of holp (“helped”)

help

help

intj

  1. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

noun

  1. (countable) A study aid.
  2. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
  3. (uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
  4. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
  5. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
  6. Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.

verb

  1. (Hong Kong) To do something on the behalf of someone.
  2. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
  3. (transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
  4. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
  5. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
  6. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

holp

holp

verb

  1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Synonym of help
  2. (archaic) simple past tense of help

hplt

ipil

ipil

noun

  1. A Philippine and Pacific island tree (Intsia bijuga) yielding a valuable brown dye and having a very hard and durable dark wood.

kelp

kelp

noun

  1. Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).
  2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To gather kelp.

kilp

kilp

noun

  1. Dated form of kelp.

klip

klop

lamp

lamp

noun

  1. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
  2. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
  3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

verb

  1. (Britain, Ireland) To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.
  2. (slang, Britain) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
  3. (slang, US) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
  4. To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.

lapb

lapd

lapd

Noun

  1. Link Access Procedures, D channel; specified in ITU-T Q.920 and ITU-T Q.921. The second layer protocol on the ISDN protocol stack.

lapm

lapp

laps

laps

noun

  1. plural of lap

verb

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

lcvp

leap

leap

adj

  1. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.

noun

  1. (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
  2. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
  3. (mining) A fault.
  4. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
  5. A group of leopards.
  6. A salmon ladder.
  7. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
  8. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
  9. Half a bushel.
  10. The act of leaping or jumping.
  11. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.

verb

  1. (archaic) To copulate with (a human)
  2. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
  3. (intransitive) To jump.
  4. (transitive) To cause to leap.
  5. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.

leep

leep

verb

  1. Obsolete form of leap.

lepa

lepp

lept

lept

verb

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of leap

lerp

lerp

noun

  1. (mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of linear interpolation.
  2. (uncountable) A sweet secretion, produced by the larvae of the family Psyllidae, that forms scales on eucalyptus leaves.
  3. One of the lice whose larvae produce this secretion.

verb

  1. (mathematics, computing) To interpolate linearly.

limp

limp

adj

  1. (of a man) not having an erect penis
  2. (of a penis) not erect
  3. flaccid; flabby, like flesh.
  4. lacking stiffness; flimsy
  5. physically weak

noun

  1. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
  2. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.
  3. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.

phrase

  1. (historical) Acronym of Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of Wales. (a code-word among Jacobites)

verb

  1. (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To move or proceed irregularly.
  3. (intransitive, figurative, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
  4. (intransitive, stative) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
  5. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen; befall; chance.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To come upon; meet.
  7. (poker slang, intransitive) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
  8. limping verses

lipa

lipa

noun

  1. (often in the plural) A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Croatian kuna (obsolete since 2023).

lipp

lips

lips

noun

  1. plural of lip

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lip
  2. to kiss, to smooch

lisp

lisp

noun

  1. The habit or an act of lisping.

verb

  1. (archaic) To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
  2. (archaic) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
  3. (archaic) to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
  4. To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children.
  5. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.

loop

loop

noun

  1. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
  2. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
  3. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
  4. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
  5. (rail transport) A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
  6. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
  7. (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
  8. A complete circuit for an electric current.
  9. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
  10. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
  11. A ring road or beltway.
  12. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
  13. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
  14. Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).
  15. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
  16. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
  17. The opening so formed.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To form a loop.
  2. (intransitive) To move in a loop.
  3. (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
  4. (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
  5. (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
  6. (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
  7. (transitive) To form something into a loop.
  8. (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
  9. (transitive) To move something in a loop.
  10. To place in a loop.

lope

lope

noun

  1. An easy pace with long strides.

verb

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.
  2. To travel an easy pace with long strides.

lops

lops

noun

  1. plural of lop

verb

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

loup

loup

noun

  1. A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

lpda

lrap

lrsp

lsap

lsrp

ltpd

lump

lump

noun

  1. (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
  2. (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
  3. A dull or lazy person.
  4. A group, set, or unit.
  5. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
  6. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
  7. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
  8. A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
  9. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
  2. (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
  3. (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
  4. (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
  5. (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).

lupe

lupe

noun

  1. The Pacific imperial pigeon (Ducula pacifica).

lupi

lwop

lwsp

nldp

olpe

olpe

noun

  1. Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.

oltp

oopl

opal

opal

noun

  1. (biology, genetics, biochemistry) A colloquial name used in molecular biology referring to a particular stop codon sequence, "UGA."
  2. (gemology) A precious gem, an iridescent gemstone found in the opal-silica mineral substrate (potch)
  3. (mineralogy) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO₂·nH₂O.
  4. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Nesolycaena.

opel

paal

pahl

pail

pail

noun

  1. (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
  2. A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).

pala

pala

noun

  1. A part of an insect's leg that is spade-shaped and can be used as a scoop for feeding.
  2. An Odisha art form consisting of Puranic texts expressed through music and dance.

pale

pale

adj

  1. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
  2. Feeble, faint.
  3. Light in color.

noun

  1. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
  2. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
  3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
  4. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
  5. (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
  6. (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
  7. (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
  8. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
  9. A cheese scoop.
  10. A wooden stake; a picket.
  11. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
  2. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
  3. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
  4. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

pali

pali

noun

  1. plural of palus

pall

pall

noun

  1. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
  2. (Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
  3. (Christianity, obsolete) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
  4. (archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
  5. (archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
  6. (figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
  7. (heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y charged with crosses.
  8. (obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
  9. A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
  2. (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
  3. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.

palm

palm

noun

  1. (Scouting) Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.
  2. (figurative, by extension) Triumph; victory.
  3. (historical) Any of various units of length notionally derived from the length of the palm from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
  4. (historical) Synonym of hand, any of various units of length notionally derived from the breadth of the palm, formalized in England as 4 inches and now chiefly used for the height of horses
  5. (nautical) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
  6. (sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
  7. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
  8. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
  9. The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
  10. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
  11. The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.

verb

  1. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
  2. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
  3. To move something with the palm of the hand.

palo

palp

palp

adj

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Palpatory; obtained by palpation.

noun

  1. (medicine, uncountable, colloquial) Short for palpation.
  2. (zoology) Synonym of pedipalp.
  3. A fleshy part of a fingertip.

verb

  1. To feel, to explore by touch.

pals

pals

noun

  1. plural of pal

verb

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

palt

paly

paly

adj

  1. (heraldry) vertically striped
  2. (obsolete) pale; lacking colour

parl

paul

paul

noun

  1. An old Italian silver coin; a paolo.
  2. Archaic form of pawl.

pawl

pawl

noun

  1. A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.
  2. A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets.

verb

  1. (transitive) To stop with a pawl.

peal

peal

noun

  1. (collective) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
  2. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
  3. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
  4. The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To resound; to echo.
  2. (intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals.
  3. (obsolete) To appeal.
  4. (transitive) To assail with noise.
  5. (transitive) To utter or sound loudly.

peel

peel

noun

  1. (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
  2. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  3. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
  4. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
  5. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
  6. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
  7. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  8. (obsolete) A stake.
  9. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  10. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  11. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
  12. Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”)

verb

  1. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.
  2. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
  3. (curling) To play a peel shot.
  4. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  5. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
  6. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
  7. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  8. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  9. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.

pele

pelf

pelf

noun

  1. (countable, Yorkshire, derogatory) A contemptible or useless person.
  2. (uncountable, Southwest England) Dust; fluff.
  3. (uncountable, chiefly derogatory, dated) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
  4. (uncountable, dated) Rubbish, trash; specifically (Britain, dialectal) refuse from plants.

pell

pell

noun

  1. (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
  2. A fur or hide.
  3. A lined cloak or its lining.
  4. A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
  5. An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.

verb

  1. To pelt; to knock about.

pelt

pelt

noun

  1. (also figuratively) The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
  2. (archaic except Ireland) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  3. (by extension) Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
  4. (chiefly Ireland, humorous, informal) Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
  5. (chiefly Northern England except in at (full) pelt) An act of moving quickly; a rush.
  6. (except Ireland) A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
  7. (except Midlands, Southern England (South West)) A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.
  8. (falconry) The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
  9. A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
  10. A garment made from animal skins.
  11. A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
  12. The fur or hair of a living animal.
  13. The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).

verb

  1. (archaic except Britain, dialectal) To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
  2. (archaic, also figuratively) Chiefly followed by at: to bombard someone or something with missiles continuously.
  3. (figuratively) To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
  4. (figuratively) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.
  6. (obsolete) To throw out harsh words; to show anger.
  7. (obsolete, rare) To remove feathers from (a bird).
  8. Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
  9. Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
  10. Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
  11. Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
  12. To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
  13. To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
  14. To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.

pelu

perl

peul

phil

phil

noun

  1. Alternative form of phil.

phyl

pial

pial

adj

  1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pia or pia mater.

noun

  1. (India) A raised platform on which people sit, usually under the veranda, or on either side of the door of a house.

pile

pile

noun

  1. (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
  2. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
  3. (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
  4. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  5. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  6. (slang) A large amount of money.
  7. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
  8. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
  9. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  10. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  11. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
  12. A list or league
  13. A mass formed in layers.
  14. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  15. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
  16. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
  17. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
  18. The head of an arrow or spear.
  19. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.

verb

  1. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  2. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  3. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  4. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  5. (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
  6. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
  7. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

pili

pili

noun

  1. A tropical tree, Canarium ovatum, native to maritime Southeast Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia, and cultivated in the Philippines for its nuts.
  2. The edible nut of the tree.
  3. plural of pilus

pill

pill

noun

  1. (archaic, baseball slang) A baseball.
  2. (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
  3. (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
  4. (graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
  5. (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
  6. (now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
  7. (obsolete) The peel or skin.
  8. (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
  9. (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
  10. (strictly) Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
  11. (textile) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
  12. Hyponyms: tablet, caplet, capsule, lozenge
  13. Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

verb

  1. (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
  2. (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
  3. (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
  4. (transitive) To medicate with pills.
  5. (transitive, Internet slang) To persuade or convince someone of something.
  6. (transitive, UK, slang, dated) To blackball (a potential club member).
  7. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
  8. To form into the shape of a pill.
  9. To peel; to make by removing the skin.

pilm

pilm

noun

  1. (dialect) dust

verb

  1. (dialect, impersonal) To have dust blow about

pily

pily

adj

  1. (heraldry) Marked by many narrow piles (wedges).
  2. Like pile or wool.

pirl

pirl

noun

  1. A ripple; a twist or curl.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To ripple or swirl, especially of water.
  2. (transitive) To cause to revolve or spin.
  3. (transitive) To twist or wind, especially into a cord or braid etc.

plak

plan

plan

noun

  1. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
  2. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  3. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
  4. A subscription to a service.
  5. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To intend.
  2. (intransitive) To make a plan.
  3. (transitive) To create a plan for.
  4. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

plap

plap

verb

  1. To plash; fall with a plashing sound

plat

plat

adj

  1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.

adv

  1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.

noun

  1. (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.
  2. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
  3. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
  4. A plot of land; a lot.
  5. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.

verb

  1. (dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.
  2. (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

play

play

noun

  1. (archaic, now usually in compounds) Activity relating to martial combat or fighting.
  2. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
  3. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
  4. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
  5. (countable) A short sequence of action within a game.
  6. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
  7. (countable) An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
  8. (countable) An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
  9. (countable, turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
  10. (uncountable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
  11. (uncountable) Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
  12. (uncountable) The conduct, or course, of a game.
  13. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
  14. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
  15. (uncountable, informal) Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.

verb

  1. (African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
  2. (copulative) Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
  3. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
  4. (intransitive) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
  5. (intransitive) To act; to behave; to practice deception.
  6. (intransitive) To move to and fro.
  7. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
  8. (intransitive, especially of a person) To produce music using a musical instrument.
  9. (intransitive, of a music) To produce music.
  10. (intransitive, of a theatrical performance) To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
  11. (transitive) (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
  12. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
  13. (transitive) To act or perform (a play).
  14. (transitive) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
  15. (transitive) To compete against, in a game.
  16. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
  17. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
  18. (transitive, colloquial) To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
  19. (transitive, ergative) To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
  20. (transitive, especially of a person) To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
  21. (transitive, intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
  22. (transitive, intransitive) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
  23. (transitive, of a theatrical company or band, etc.) To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
  24. To gamble.

plcc

plcc

Noun

  1. Plastic leaded chip carrier
  2. Power line carrier communication

plea

plea

noun

  1. (law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
  2. (law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
  3. (law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
  4. (law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
  5. An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
  6. An excuse; an apology.
  7. That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.

verb

  1. (chiefly England regional, Scotland) To plead; to argue.

pleb

pleb

adj

  1. (derogatory) Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.
  2. Of or concerning the lower class of a society.

noun

  1. (US, slang, usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
  2. (derogatory) A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
  3. A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society.

pled

pled

verb

  1. (Canada, US, Scotland) simple past tense and past participle of plead

plew

plew

noun

  1. (Canada, US) beaver pelt

plex

plex

noun

  1. (Canada) A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
  2. (computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
  3. Clipping of multiplex.

plie

plie

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of plié

plim

plim

adj

  1. (chiefly South Wales) plump; full

verb

  1. (chiefly South Wales) To swell or inflate; to fill up.

plod

plod

noun

  1. (UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
  2. (UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
  3. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
  2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
  3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

plop

plop

intj

  1. Indicating the sound of something plopping.

noun

  1. (Britain, slang) excrement; derived from the "plop" sound made when it hits water in a toilet
  2. A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.

verb

  1. (Britain) To defecate; derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To land heavily or loosely.
  3. To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.

plos

plot

plot

noun

  1. (Various fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story).
  2. (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
  3. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
  4. A plan; a purpose.
  5. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
  6. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
  7. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
  8. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

verb

  1. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
  2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).

plow

plow

noun

  1. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of plough

ploy

ploy

noun

  1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
  2. (obsolete) Employment.
  3. A tactic, strategy, or scheme.

verb

  1. (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

plss

plud

plug

plug

noun

  1. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
  2. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
  3. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
  4. (aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
  5. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
  6. (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
  7. (dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.
  8. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
  9. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
  10. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
  11. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
  12. (jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
  13. (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
  14. (slang) A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
  15. A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
  16. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.

verb

  1. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
  2. (slang, transitive) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
  3. (slang, transitive) To ingest a drug rectally
  4. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
  5. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
  6. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

plum

plum

adj

  1. (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  2. (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
  3. Plumb

adv

  1. Completely; utterly.

noun

  1. (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
  2. (now rare) A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
  3. (now rare, archaic) One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune.
  4. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  5. A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
  6. A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
  7. A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
  8. An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
  9. Prunus americana (American plum)
  10. Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
  11. Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
  12. Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
  13. Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
  14. Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
  15. Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
  16. Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
  17. Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
  18. Prunus spinosa (sloe)
  19. Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
  20. Prunus ursina (bear's plum)

verb

  1. (mining) To plumb.

plup

plur

plus

plus

adj

  1. (physics) Electrically positive.
  2. (postpositive) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
  3. Being positive rather than negative or zero.
  4. Positive, or involving advantage.

conj

  1. And also; in addition; besides (which).

noun

  1. (arithmetic) A plus sign: +.
  2. A positive quantity.
  3. An asset or useful addition.

prep

  1. (colloquial) With; having in addition.
  2. And; sum of the previous one and the following one.

verb

  1. (homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
  2. (informal) To add; to subject to addition.
  3. (often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.
  4. (optometry) To increase a correction.
  5. (psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
  6. (sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
  7. (social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.
  8. To improve.
  9. To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.

plze

poil

pola

pola

adj

  1. (photography) Polarizing.

pole

pole

noun

  1. (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A gun.
  2. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
  3. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  4. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
  5. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  6. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
  7. (motor racing) Pole position.
  8. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
  9. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  10. (vulgar, slang) A penis.
  11. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
  12. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
  13. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
  14. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
  15. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  16. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

verb

  1. (transitive) To convey on poles.
  2. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
  3. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
  4. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
  5. (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
  6. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
  7. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

polk

polk

verb

  1. (obsolete, slang) To dance the polka.

poll

poll

adj

  1. (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

noun

  1. (UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
  2. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
  3. (now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
  4. A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
  5. A pet parrot.
  6. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
  7. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
  8. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
  9. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
  10. The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To vote at an election.
  2. (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
  3. (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
  4. (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
  5. (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
  6. (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
  7. (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
  8. (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
  9. (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
  10. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
  11. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
  12. To impose a tax upon.
  13. To pay as one's personal tax.
  14. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
  15. To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.

polo

polo

intj

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Polo

noun

  1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.
  2. (countable) A polo shirt.
  3. (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
  4. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.
  5. The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

pols

pols

noun

  1. plural of pol

polt

polt

noun

  1. (now dialectal) A hard knock.
  2. (obsolete, rare) A pestle.

poly

poly

adj

  1. (chiefly informal) Polyamorous.

noun

  1. (chiefly computer graphics) Polygon.
  2. (chiefly informal) A polyamorous person.
  3. (chiefly informal) Polyamory.
  4. (uncountable) Polyester.
  5. A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium polium) of the family Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean.
  6. Polyethylene (polythene).
  7. Polytechnic.
  8. Polyurethane

verb

  1. (transitive, video games, roguelikes) To polymorph; to transform by magic.

pool

pool

noun

  1. (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
  2. (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
  3. (games, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
  4. (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
  5. (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
  6. (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
  7. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
  8. A localized glow of light.
  9. A set of players in quadrille etc.
  10. A small amount of liquid on a surface.
  11. A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
  12. A supply of resources.
  13. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
  14. Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
  15. Ellipsis of swimming pool.
  16. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
  17. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
  2. (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
  3. (transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.

poul

pplo

publ

pula

pula

noun

  1. (Southern Africa) Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck.
  2. The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe.

pule

pule

noun

  1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.
  2. A plaintive melancholy whine.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
  2. (intransitive) To whimper or whine.

puli

puli

noun

  1. One of a breed of Hungarian sheepdog with a distinctive thick, corded coat.

pulj