(obsolete) Barking or baying of dogs at their prey.
abba
abba
noun
(Christianity, Judaism) Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.
Alternative form of aba (Middle Eastern garment).
abbe
abbe
noun
Alternative spelling of abbé
abbi
abbr
abbr
noun
Alternative spelling of abbr.
abby
abby
noun
Obsolete spelling of abbey
abcs
abdu
abed
abed
adv
In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
To childbed
abel
abet
abet
noun
(obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
(obsolete) Fraud or cunning.
verb
(obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
(obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
(transitive) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
(transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.
abeu
abey
abey
verb
(transitive) To hold in abeyance; to suspend.
abfm
abhc
abia
abib
abib
Proper noun
The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to the Gregorian April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.
abie
abir
abir
noun
(India) An aromatic red powder that is used during the Holi festival.
abit
abit
adv
(nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative form of a bit.
abiu
abiu
noun
A South American tropical fruit tree, Pouteria caimito.
able
able
adj
(law) Legally qualified or competent.
(nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
(obsolete) Easy to use.
(obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
(obsolete) Suitable; competent.
(obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
(obsolete, dialectal) Liable to.
Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
noun
(military) The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To dress.
(transitive, obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
(transitive, obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
(transitive, obsolete) To make ready.
(transitive, obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.
abls
ably
ably
adv
In an able manner; with great ability.
abos
abos
noun
plural of abo
abow
abox
abox
adv
(nautical) Braced aback
abpc
abra
abra
noun
a narrow mountain or mesa pass
a wooden boat used as a ferry in Dubai
abri
abri
noun
a shelter; a cavity in a hillside; a shelter on the side of hill with an overhung rock as its roof
absa
absi
abut
abut
verb
(intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
(intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
(transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.
abye
abye
verb
Alternative form of aby
abys
acbl
adib
agba
agib
ahab
ahab
Proper noun
A king of Israel, mentioned in the Bible.
name, very rarely used.
alba
alba
noun
(poetry) A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
(rare) plural of album
A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
Synonym of alb
albe
albe
conj
(obsolete) Synonym of albeit
noun
Obsolete spelling of alb
albi
albm
albo
albo
noun
(US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian.
albs
albs
noun
plural of alb
alby
alby
Proper noun
from place names in England. Variant spelling: Albee.
name, anglicization of Irish Ailbhe, name of an Irish saint also anglicized as Albert.
name used in Ireland, derived from Ailbhe, name of heroines in Irish legend.
amba
amba
noun
A characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.
A tangy mango pickle used as a condiment in the Middle East.
ambe
ambe
noun
(historical) An old mechanical contrivance, ascribed to Hippocrates, for reducing dislocations of the shoulder.
ambo
ambo
noun
(Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
(informal) An ambulance driver.
(informal) An ambulance.
A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
amby
amby
noun
(informal) An ambidextrous person.
anba
arab
arba
arbe
arbs
arbs
noun
plural of arb
arsb
aube
aube
noun
Obsolete form of alb.
baal
baal
noun
(obsolete, derogatory) Catholic or Orthodox icons of the saints.
a false deity or idol
baar
baas
baas
noun
(South Africa) An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address.
plural of baa
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baa
baba
baba
noun
(British India) A baby, child.
(Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
(especially among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
(especially among people of Indian or Chinese ancestry) A father.
A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.
babb
babe
babe
noun
(endearing) Darling (term of endearment).
(literary or poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. [from 14th c.]
(slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
babi
babs
babs
noun
plural of bab
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bab
babu
babu
noun
(India) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official.
(India) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man
baby
baby
adj
(in the comparative or superlative) Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young.
(of vegetables, etc.) Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).
Newest (overall, or in some group or state), most inexperienced.
noun
(archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll.
(informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.
(often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.
A concept or creation endeared by its creator.
A person who is immature, infantile or feeble.
A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.
A person's romantic partner.
A pet project or responsibility.
A term of endearment used to refer to or address one's girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse.
A very young human, particularly from conception or birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
An affectionate term for anything.
Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See Category:Baby animals for more.
The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.
Unborn young; a fetus.
verb
(transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
(transitive) To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.
bacc
bach
bach
noun
(New Zealand, northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.
verb
(US) To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.)
back
back
adj
(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
(predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
At or near the rear.
In arrears; overdue.
Moving or operating backward.
Not current.
Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
adv
(not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
(not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
(postpositive) Earlier, ago.
Away from someone or something; at a distance.
Away from the front or from an edge.
In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
In a manner that impedes.
So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
So as to reverse direction and return.
To a later point in time. See also put back.
Towards, into or in the past.
noun
(figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
(figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
(mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
(nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
(obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
(printing) The inside margin of a page.
(slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
(slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
(sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
(swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
A ferryboat.
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
A support or resource in reserve.
Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
The edge of a book which is bound.
The part of something that goes last.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
The spine and associated tissues.
postp
Before now; ago.
verb
(MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
(Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
(UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
(intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
(law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
(nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
(nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
(nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
(transitive) To push or force backwards.
(transitive) To support.
(transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
(transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
To row backward with (oars).
To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
baco
bact
badb
bade
bade
verb
simple past tense of bid
badr
bads
bads
noun
plural of bad
baed
baed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bae
bael
bael
noun
A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos.
The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple.
baer
baez
baff
baff
noun
(Tyneside) blank
verb
(golf) To strike the ground with the bottom of the club when taking a stroke.
(intransitive, archaic) To bark; yelp.
To hit or strike, especially with something flat or soft.
bafo
baft
baft
noun
Alternative form of bafta (“type of material”)
prep
Alternative form of abaft
baga
bage
bagh
bagh
noun
A type of enclosed garden common in south and south-eastern Asia.
bago
bagr
bags
bags
intj
Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
noun
(often in the phrase 'bags of') A large quantity.
(slang) Loose-fitting trousers.
plural of bag
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To reserve for oneself.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bag
baho
bahr
baht
baht
adv
(Yorkshire) Without.
noun
The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.
bail
bail
noun
(chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
(law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
(law, UK) The person providing such payment.
(obsolete) Custody; keeping.
A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
A person who bails water out of a boat.
A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
(Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
(informal, transitive with on) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
(law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
(law) To release a person under such guarantee.
(nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
(nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
(rare) To confine.
(slang) To exit quickly.
To secure the head of a cow during milking.
To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
(East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
(Internet slang) A post intended to get a rise out of others.
(Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
(Tyneside) A packed lunch.
A light or hasty luncheon.
A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
verb
(intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
(intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
(obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
(transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
(transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
(transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
(transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
(transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
baja
baka
baka
adj
(anime and manga, fandom slang) Stupid; silly.
noun
(voodoo) An evil spirit in Haitian belief, often in the form of an animal.
bake
bake
noun
(Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
(US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
(especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
Any food item that is baked.
The act of cooking food by baking.
verb
(computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
(figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
(intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
(intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
(intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
(transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
(transitive) To dry by heat.
(transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
(transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.
baku
bala
bald
bald
adj
(by extension) Denuded of any covering.
(of a statement or account) Unembellished.
(of a statement) Without evidence or support being provided.
(of animals) Having areas (of fur or plumage) that are coloured white, especially on the head.
(specifically) Having no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head although hair may still grow on the sides and back of the head.
Having no hair, fur or feathers.
Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
noun
(Appalachia) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
verb
(intransitive) To become bald.
bale
bale
noun
(archaic) A beacon-fire.
(archaic) A funeral pyre.
(obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
A block of compressed cannabis.
A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
Suffering, woe, torment.
verb
(Britain, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
(transitive) To wrap into a bale.
balf
bali
balk
balk
noun
(agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
(archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
(badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
(baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
(billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
(fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
(obsolete) An omission.
(snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
A sudden and obstinate stop.
Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
verb
(archaic) To pass over or by.
(obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
(sports, intransitive) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
To disappoint; to frustrate.
To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
To leave or make balks in.
To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
To refuse suddenly.
To stop short and refuse to go on.
To stop, check, block.
ball
ball
intj
(Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.
noun
(anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
(baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
(cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
(farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
(in the plural) Courage.
(in the plural) Nonsense.
(informal) A very enjoyable time.
(mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
(mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
(mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
(pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
(printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
(soccer, countable) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
(sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
(uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
(uncountable, obsolete) Such bullets collectively.
A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
A formal dance.
A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
The globe; the earthly sphere.
verb
(metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
(nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
(slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
(transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
(transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
(transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
(transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
(university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.)
balm
balm
noun
(figuratively) Something soothing.
A plant or tree yielding such substance.
Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horse balm.
Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis
verb
(transitive, archaic) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.
(transitive, figurative) To soothe; to mitigate.
balr
bals
balt
balu
bams
bams
noun
plural of bam
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bam
bana
banc
banc
noun
(US, business) Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment.
A tribunal or court.
band
band
noun
(Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
(anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
(especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
(in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
(medicine) Short for band cell.
(obsolete) A bond.
(obsolete) Pledge; security.
(physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
(physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
(sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
(slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money
A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
A marching band.
A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
verb
(intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of bind
(transitive) To fasten with a band.
(transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.
(transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
Obsolete form of bandy.
bane
bane
noun
(chiefly Scotland) Bone.
(dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
(obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
(obsolete) Destruction; death.
A cause of misery or death.
A disease of sheep.
verb
(transitive) To be the bane of.
(transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
bang
bang
adv
Precisely.
Right, directly.
With a sudden impact.
intj
A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
noun
(Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
(US, archaic) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
(chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
(mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
(slang) A thrill.
(slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
(slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
(slang, mining) An explosive product.
(vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
A sudden percussive noise.
Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)
An explosion.
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
verb
(finance, transitive, dated) To depress the prices in (a market).
(intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
(slang, transitive, intransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
(slang, transitive, obsolete) To excel or surpass.
(transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
(transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
(transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.
(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
bani
bani
noun
plural of ban (currency)
bank
bank
noun
(archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
(computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
(countable) A branch office of such an institution.
(countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
(countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
(countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
(countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
(countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
(gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
(nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
(rail transport) An incline, a hill.
(slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
verb
(intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
(intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
(rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
(transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
(transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
(transitive) To put into a bank.
(transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
(transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
(transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
(transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
bann
bans
bans
noun
Misspelling of banns.
plural of ban
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ban
bant
bant
noun
(slang) Clipping of banter.
baor
bapt
bara
bara
noun
(Internet slang) A genre of homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.
(Internet slang) Any homoerotic media or pornography that accentuates macho masculinity; gay porn.
(Internet slang) Gay male media of a similar style and aesthetic, regardless of the creator's gender or ethnicity.
barb
barb
noun
(US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
(botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
(figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
(ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
(informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.
(obsolete) A bit for a horse.
(obsolete) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
(ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
Armor for a horse.
Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
verb
(Nigeria) To cut (hair).
(obsolete) To clip; to mow.
(obsolete) To shave or dress the beard of.
To cover a horse in armor.
To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
bard
bard
noun
(by extension) A poet.
(cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
verb
(cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
To cover a horse in defensive armor.
bare
bare
adj
(MLE, MTE, Yorkshire, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
(figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
Having no decoration.
Having no supplies.
Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
Naked, uncovered.
Not insured.
Threadbare, very worn.
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
adv
(MLE, slang) Very; significantly.
(dialect) Barely.
noun
(architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
(‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin.
Surface; body; substance.
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense of bear
(transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
barf
barf
intj
An expression of disgust.
noun
(US, colloquial) Vomit.
verb
(US, colloquial) To vomit.
(computing, slang, intransitive, by extension) Of a system: to fail.
bari
bari
noun
(colloquial, barbershop music) A baritone (singer)
(colloquial, music) A baritone saxophone
bark
bark
noun
(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
(figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
(medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
(nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
(poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
verb
(intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
(intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
(transitive) To speak sharply.
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
To girdle.
To strip the bark from; to peel.
barm
barm
noun
(obsolete outside dialects) Bosom, lap.
A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.
Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
verb
To spurge; foam
barn
barn
noun
(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
(dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.
(informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.
(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
(slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
verb
(transitive) To lay up in a barn.
barr
barr
verb
(obsolete) To make the sound of an elephant.
bars
bars
noun
(gymnastics) Ellipsis of parallel bars.
(gymnastics) Ellipsis of uneven bars.
(slang) Well-constructed rap lyrics.
(sports) An event in gymnastics using bars.
plural of bar
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bar
bart
baru
bary
basc
base
base
adj
(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
(law) Not held by honourable service.
(now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
(obsolete) Low in height; short.
(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
(obsolete) Of low value or degree.
(of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
Low in place or position.
Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
Not classical or correct.
Obsolete form of bass.
noun
(Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
(acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
(archaic) The housing of a horse.
(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
(aviation) Short for base leg.
(baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
(biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
(cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
(geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
(group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
(historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
(mathematics) Synonym of radix.
(military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
(music) Dated form of bass.
(now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
(obsolete) An apron.
(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
(politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
(slang) freebase cocaine
(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
Alternative form of BASE
Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
verb
(acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
(slang) To freebase.
(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
bash
bash
noun
(UK, informal) An attempt at doing something.
(informal) A forceful blow or impact.
(informal) A large party; a gala event.
verb
(informal) To collide; used with into or together.
(informal) To strike heavily.
(obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
(transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.
bask
bask
verb
(figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
bass
bass
adj
Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
noun
(music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
A low spectrum of sound tones.
A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
One who sings in the bass range.
The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
verb
To sound in a deep tone.
bast
bast
noun
Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
bate
bate
noun
A vat which contains this liquid.
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
Strife; contention.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
(intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
(intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
(intransitive, slang) To masturbate.
(obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of beat; = beat.
(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
(transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
(transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
To deprive of.
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
To waste away.
bath
bath
noun
(by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
(real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
A building or area where bathing occurs.
A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
The act of bathing.
The body of liquid one bathes in.
verb
(intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
(transitive, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath.
bats
bats
adj
(informal) Mad, insane.
noun
plural of bat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bat
batt
batt
noun
(Polari, usually in the plural) A shoe.
Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
batz
batz
noun
(historical) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland.
baud
baud
noun
(computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.
(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.