A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
bleck
bleck
intj
(rare) Alternative form of blech
noun
(dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
(obsolete) A black man.
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
Soot, smut.
verb
(obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
(obsolete, dialect) To defile.
blenk
blenk
verb
(obsolete) To blink.
(obsolete) To look.
bloke
bloke
noun
(Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
(Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
(chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.
boeke
bomke
borek
borek
noun
Alternative form of burek
brake
brake
noun
(chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
(engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
(figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
(military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
(now historical) A type of torture instrument.
(obsolete) A cage.
(obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.
A baker's kneading trough.
A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
A fern; bracken (Pteridium).
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
Any fern in the genus Pteris
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of break
(intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
(intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
(transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead
(transitive) To pulverise with a harrow
break
break
noun
(Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
(UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
(billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
(computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
(computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
(dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
(equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
(finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
(geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
(golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
(horse racing) The start of a horse race.
(music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
(music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
(music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
(obsolete, slang) An error.
(programming) Short for breakpoint.
(snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
(soccer) The counter-attack.
(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
(tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
A short holiday.
A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
A temporary split with a romantic partner.
An act of escaping.
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
The beginning (of the morning).
verb
(computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
(computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
(copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
(finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
(intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
(intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
(intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
(intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
(intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
(intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
(intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
(intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
(intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
(intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
(intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
(intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
(intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
(intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
(intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
(intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
(intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
(intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
(music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
(programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
(specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
(specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
(specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
(transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
(transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
(transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
(transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
(transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
(transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
(transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
(transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
(transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
(transitive) To ruin financially.
(transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
(transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
(transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
(transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
(transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
(transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
(transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
(transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
(transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
(transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
(transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
(transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
breck
breek
brenk
brike
broek
broke
broke
adj
(archaic, now informal) Broken.
(informal) Financially ruined, bankrupt.
(informal) Without any money, penniless.
(nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
(slang) Broke off, rich, wealthy
noun
(obsolete) A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.
(papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
verb
(archaic, nonstandard or poetic) past participle of break
(obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
To act as a broker; to transact business for another; synonym of broker.
simple past tense of break
bruke
burke
burke
noun
(Britain, slang) Alternative form of berk
verb
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
kabel
kaleb
kaleb
Proper noun
name, a rare modern spelling variant of Caleb.
kebab
kebab
noun
(Australia) A hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.
(Britain) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
(US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
(chemistry) The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
(graphical user interface) menu icon of three vertical dots
(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
(slang, vulgar, UK) The vulva.
A restaurant that sells kebabs
verb
(transitive) To roast in the style of a kebab
(transitive, slang) To stab or skewer
kebar
kebby
kebby
noun
Alternative form of kebbie
keble
kebob
kebob
noun
Alternative spelling of kebab
kelby
kerbs
kerbs
noun
plural of kerb
kerby
kerby
noun
(British) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.
kibbe
kibbe
noun
Alternative spelling of kibbeh
kibei
kibei
noun
(US) A Japanese-American who is born in the United States but primarily educated in Japan.