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afsk

arks

arks

noun

  1. plural of ark

asak

askr

asks

asks

noun

  1. plural of ask

verb

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

asok

auks

auks

noun

  1. plural of auk

bask

bask

verb

  1. (figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
  2. To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.

bisk

bisk

noun

  1. (sports) Alternative form of bisque (“extra turn”)
  2. Alternative form of bisque (“kind of soup”)

bosk

bosk

noun

  1. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
  2. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush.

bskt

busk

busk

noun

  1. (by extension) A corset.
  2. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
  3. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
  3. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
  4. (obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

cask

cask

noun

  1. (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
  2. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
  3. Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).

verb

  1. To put into a cask.

cusk

cusk

noun

  1. A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.

daks

daks

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Trousers or underwear.
  2. plural of dak

desk

desk

noun

  1. A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
  2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
  3. A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
  4. Short for mixing desk.

verb

  1. (transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
  2. (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

disk

disk

noun

  1. (agriculture) A type of harrow.
  2. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
  3. (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
  4. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
  5. (computer hardware, nonstandard) A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
  6. (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
  7. (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
  8. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

verb

  1. (agriculture) To harrow.
  2. (aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.

dpsk

dusk

dusk

adj

  1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

noun

  1. A darkish colour.
  2. A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
  3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness

verb

  1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
  2. (transitive) To make dusk.

eisk

ekes

ekes

verb

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

ekts

elks

elks

noun

  1. plural of elk

esko

esky

esky

noun

  1. (Australia) An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.

eysk

fisk

fisk

verb

  1. (obsolete) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
  2. To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.

fusk

gksm

hask

hask

noun

  1. (obsolete) A basket made of flags or rushes, as for carrying fish.

husk

husk

noun

  1. An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
  2. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
  3. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
  4. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.
  2. (transitive) To remove husks from.
  3. (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

ilks

ilks

noun

  1. plural of ilk

inks

inks

noun

  1. plural of ink

verb

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

irks

irks

verb

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

isak

kaas

kabs

kabs

noun

  1. plural of kab

kaes

kafs

kafs

noun

  1. plural of kaf

kans

kans

noun

  1. plural of kan

kaos

kars

kars

noun

  1. plural of kar

kasa

kase

kask

kasm

kass

kast

kast

noun

  1. A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries

kats

kats

noun

  1. plural of kat

kays

kays

noun

  1. plural of kay

kbps

kbps

noun

  1. (computing) Initialism of kilobits per second.

kcsi

keas

keas

noun

  1. plural of kea

kefs

kegs

kegs

noun

  1. (Northern England) Trousers (pants).
  2. (Northern England) Underpants.
  3. Alternative spelling of kecks
  4. plural of keg

kens

kens

noun

  1. plural of ken

verb

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

keos

keps

kers

keys

keys

noun

  1. plural of key

verb

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

khis

khis

noun

  1. plural of khi

khos

kias

kids

kids

noun

  1. plural of kid

verb

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

kies

kifs

kins

kins

noun

  1. plural of kin

kips

kips

noun

  1. plural of kip

verb

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

kirs

kirs

noun

  1. plural of kir

kish

kish

noun

  1. The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.
  2. a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf

kiss

kiss

noun

  1. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth, conjunction.
  2. (aviation) A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.
  3. A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
  4. A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
  5. An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.

verb

  1. (intransitive) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
  2. (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To treat with fondness.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.

kist

kist

noun

  1. (India, historical) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.
  2. (Scotland) A chest.
  3. (Scotland) A coffin.
  4. (archaeology) Alternative form of cist (“crypt”)

verb

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.
  2. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of kiss

kits

kits

noun

  1. plural of kit

verb

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

klos

koas

koas

noun

  1. plural of koa

kobs

kobs

noun

  1. plural of kob

kops

kops

noun

  1. plural of kop

kors

kors

noun

  1. plural of kor

koso

koss

koss

noun

  1. Alternative form of coss

kras

kris

kris

noun

  1. A Moro sword with an asymmetrical blade.
  2. A traditional Indonesian or Malay dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.

verb

  1. (transitive) To stab with a kris.

krys

ksar

ksar

noun

  1. a granary, or village containing a granary, in the Maghreb (Berber countries).

kues

kues

noun

  1. plural of kue

kusa

kush

kush

noun

  1. (slang) Marijuana, especially Cannabis indica (a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, strains of which often have high THC content).

kvas

laks

lask

lask

adj

  1. (obsolete) Lax, weak; specifically of the bowels: affected by diarrhoea; loose.

noun

  1. (uncountable, chiefly veterinary medicine) Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.

verb

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea.

leks

leks

noun

  1. plural of lek

lisk

luks

lusk

lusk

adj

  1. (UK, dialectal) full; ripe
  2. lazy or slothful

noun

  1. a lazy or slothful person

verb

  1. (obsolete) To be idle or unemployed.

mask

mask

noun

  1. (UK dialectal) Mash.
  2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
  3. (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
  4. (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
  5. (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
  6. (fortification) A screen for a battery.
  7. (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
  8. (heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
  9. (obsolete) A dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
  10. (psychology) A social phenomenon where autistic people learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
  11. (publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
  12. (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
  13. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
  14. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
  15. A person wearing a mask.
  16. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
  17. mesh

verb

  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
  2. (intransitive) To conceal or disguise one's autism.
  3. (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
  4. (intransitive) To wear a mask.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To disguise oneself, to be disguised in any way.
  6. (transitive) To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
  7. (transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
  8. (transitive) To disguise as something else.
  9. (transitive) to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
  10. (transitive, Scotland dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
  11. (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
  12. (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.
  13. (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash.
  14. (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
  15. (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
  16. (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
  17. (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.

mosk

mosk

noun

  1. Archaic form of mosque.

musk

musk

noun

  1. (slang, colloquial, vulgar) The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.
  2. A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  3. A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.
  4. A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
  5. A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
  6. A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
  7. The musk deer (genus Moschus).
  8. The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
  9. The odour of musk.

verb

  1. (transitive) To perfume with musk.

oaks

oaks

noun

  1. (horse racing) A stakes race in which entry is restricted to 3-year-old fillies.
  2. plural of oak

oiks

oiks

noun

  1. plural of oik

okas

okas

noun

  1. plural of oka

okes

okes

noun

  1. plural of oke

omsk

omsk

Proper noun

  1. Seventh-largest city in Russia, centre of Omsk oblast.

orsk

pask

pisk

pkgs

pkgs

noun

  1. plural of pkg

rask

risk

risk

noun

  1. (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
  2. (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
  3. (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
  4. (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
  5. (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
  6. (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
  7. (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
  8. (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
  9. (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.

verb

  1. (transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).
  2. (transitive) To incur risk of (something).
  3. (transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.

rusk

rusk

noun

  1. a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture
  2. a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
  3. a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
  4. a weaning food for children

sack

sack

noun

  1. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense⁴ below.
  2. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
  3. (colloquial, US) Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
  4. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
  5. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
  6. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
  7. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.
  8. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
  9. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
  10. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
  11. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
  12. Dated form of sac (“pouch in a plant or animal”).
  13. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).

verb

  1. (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
  2. (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
  3. Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”)
  4. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
  5. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
  6. To put in a sack or sacks.

saka

sake

sake

noun

  1. (obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
  2. Alternative spelling of saké
  3. cause, interest or account
  4. purpose or end; reason
  5. the benefit or regard of someone or something

saki

saki

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of sake (rice wine)
  2. Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile.

saks

salk

sank

sank

verb

  1. simple past tense of sink

sark

sark

noun

  1. (Scotland and Northern England) A shirt or smock.

verb

  1. (transitive) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

sask

sauk

sauk

Proper noun

  1. A tribe or group of Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture group.
  2. The lect (variously considered a language or a member of a group of dialects) spoken by these Native Americans.

Noun

  1. Any member of this group of Native Americans.

seak

seak

noun

  1. soap prepared for use in milling cloth

seck

seck

adj

  1. (obsolete) barren; unprofitable

seek

seek

noun

  1. (computing) The operation of navigating through a stream.

verb

  1. (intransitive, computing) To navigate through a stream.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
  3. (intransitive, sometimes proscribed) To attempt, endeavour, try
  4. (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
  5. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  6. (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
  7. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.

seka

seko

sekt

shak

shik

siak

sick

sick

adj

  1. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
  2. (colloquial) In bad taste.
  3. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
  4. (less common in the UK) In poor health; ill.
  5. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
  6. Having an urge to vomit.
  7. In poor condition.
  8. Tired of or annoyed by something.

noun

  1. (Britain, Australia, colloquial) Vomit.
  2. (Britain, colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.

verb

  1. (colloquial) To vomit.
  2. (obsolete except in dialect, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
  3. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic

sika

sika

noun

  1. A traditional Bangladeshi hanging basket
  2. Cervus nippon, a deer found in the forests of East Asia

sike

sike

intj

  1. (slang) Alternative form of psych

noun

  1. (Scotland, Northumbria) A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
  2. (Yorkshire) such
  3. (archaic or Northern England) A sigh.

verb

  1. (archaic or Northern England) To sigh or sob.

sikh

silk

silk

noun

  1. (chiefly uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
  2. (circus arts, in the plural) A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.
  3. (colloquial) A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.
  4. (horse racing, usually in the plural) The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.
  5. A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
  6. Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes.
  7. The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.

verb

  1. (transitive) To remove the silk from (corn).

sink

sink

noun

  1. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
  2. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
  3. (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
  4. (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
  5. (geology) A sinkhole.
  6. (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
  7. (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
  8. (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
  9. (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
  10. A basin used for holding water for washing.
  11. A depression in a stereotype plate.
  12. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
  13. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
  14. A heat sink.
  15. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
  16. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.

verb

  1. (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
  2. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  3. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
  4. (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
  5. (intransitive, archaic) To die.
  6. (intransitive, figuratively, of the human heart) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
  7. (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
  8. (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
  9. (transitive) To push (something) into something.
  10. (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
  11. (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
  12. (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
  13. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
  14. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
  15. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
  16. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.

skag

skag

noun

  1. (nautical) Alternative form of skeg
  2. (slang) Alternative spelling of scag (“heroin”).
  3. (slang) An unattractive woman.

skal

skas

skat

skat

noun

  1. (countable) A widow of two cards in the game of skat.
  2. (uncountable) A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Germany.

skaw

skaw

noun

  1. A promontory.

sked

sked

noun

  1. (informal) A schedule.

verb

  1. (transitive, informal) To schedule.

skee

skee

noun

  1. Obsolete form of ski.

skeg

skeg

noun

  1. (Australia, slang) A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle.
  2. (Northern English) A look or glance.
  3. (nautical) A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller.
  4. (nautical) A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel.
  5. (obsolete) A kind of oat.
  6. (obsolete) A sort of wild plum (Prunus spinosa or Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (syn. Prunus institia)).
  7. A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard.

skel

sken

sken

verb

  1. (Northern English) to glance
  2. (Northern English) to squint

skeo

skeo

noun

  1. A fisherman's hut in Orkney.

skep

skep

noun

  1. A basket.
  2. A beehive made of straw or wicker.

sker

sket

sket

noun

  1. (MLE, derogatory, slang) A sexually promiscuous woman.

skew

skew

adj

  1. (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
  2. (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
  3. (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

adv

  1. (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

noun

  1. (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
  2. (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
  3. (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
  4. (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  5. (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
  6. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  7. A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
  8. A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
  9. A squint or sidelong glance.
  10. An oblique or sideways movement.
  11. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
  2. (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
  3. (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
  4. (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
  5. (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  6. (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  7. (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.

skey

skid

skid

noun

  1. (Internet slang) A script kiddie.
  2. (Internet slang) A stepchild.
  3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A sovereign (old coin).
  4. (aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
  5. (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
  6. (nautical, in the plural) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
  7. (sports) (also losing skid) A losing streak.
  8. A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
  9. A runner of a sled.
  10. A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
  11. A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
  12. An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
  13. One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.

verb

  1. (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
  2. (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
  3. (intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
  4. (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
  5. (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
  6. (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.

skil

skil

noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of skill
  2. Synonym of sablefish

skim

skim

adj

  1. (of milk) Having lowered fat content.

noun

  1. (informal) Skim milk.
  2. A cursory reading, skipping the details.
  3. That which is skimmed off.
  4. The act of skimming.
  5. Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To become coated over.
  2. (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
  3. (intransitive) To ricochet.
  4. (transitive) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
  5. (transitive) To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
  6. (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
  7. (transitive) To read quickly, skipping some detail.
  8. (transitive) To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
  9. (transitive) To throw an object so it bounces on water.
  10. To hasten along with superficial attention.
  11. To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
  12. To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
  13. To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.

skin

skin

noun

  1. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
  2. (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A purse.
  3. (aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
  4. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
  5. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  6. (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
  7. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
  8. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
  9. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
  10. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
  11. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
  12. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
  13. (slang, Ireland, Britain) person, chap
  14. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
  15. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  16. A drink of whisky served hot.
  17. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.

verb

  1. (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
  2. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
  3. (colloquial) To high five.
  4. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
  5. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
  6. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  7. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
  8. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  9. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).

skip

skip

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
  2. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
  3. (Scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
  4. (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
  5. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
  6. (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
  7. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
  8. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
  9. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
  10. (radio) skywave propagation
  11. (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
  12. (steelmaking) A skip car.
  13. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
  14. A beehive.
  15. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
  16. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
  17. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
  18. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
  19. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
  2. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
  3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
  4. (knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
  5. (of a phonograph record) To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
  6. (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
  7. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
  8. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
  9. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
  10. (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
  11. To jump rope.
  12. To leap lightly over.
  13. To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

skis

skis

noun

  1. plural of ski