afterdeck | (noun) a deck abaft of midships | - |
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beck | (noun) a beckoning gesture | - |
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bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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(noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
(verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
(verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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check | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, curb |
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(noun) obstructing an opponent in ice hockey | - |
(noun) (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king | - |
(noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, checkout |
(noun) a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard) | - |
(noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: chip |
(noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: assay |
(noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: confirmation, substantiation, verification |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
(noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: chit, tab |
(noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check mark, tick |
(noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, cheque |
(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
(verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
(verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
(verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
(verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
(verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
(verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
(verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
(verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
(verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
(verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
(verb) place into check | - |
(verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
(verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
(verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
(verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
(verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
(verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
(verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
(verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
(verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
(verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
(verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
(verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
copeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: kopeck, kopek |
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countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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(noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
(verb) check a second time | - |
(verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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(noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
deck | (noun) any of various platforms built into a vessel | - |
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(noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs | - |
(noun) a porch that resembles the deck on a ship | - |
(noun) a pack of 52 playing cards | Synonyms: deck of cards, pack of cards |
(verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, dump, floor, knock down |
(verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, bedight |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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fiddleneck | (noun) hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers | Synonyms: Phacelia tanacetifolia |
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fleck | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, maculation, patch, speckle, spot |
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(noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, scrap |
(verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, spot |
flyspeck | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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(noun) a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly | - |
foredeck | (noun) the deck between the bridge and the forecastle | - |
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gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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kopeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopek |
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leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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(noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
neck | (noun) an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck | Synonyms: neck opening |
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(noun) a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form | - |
(noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: cervix |
(noun) a cut of meat from the neck of an animal | - |
(noun) a narrow elongated projecting strip of land | - |
(verb) kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion | Synonyms: make out |
paycheck | (noun) a check issued in payment of wages or salary | Synonyms: payroll check |
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peck | (noun) a light kiss | - |
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(noun) bite by a bird | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | - |
(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons | - |
(verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints | Synonyms: hen-peck, nag |
(verb) eat by pecking at, like a bird | Synonyms: pick up |
(verb) eat like a bird | Synonyms: peck at, pick at |
(verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: smack |
(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, pick |
pinchbeck | (adjective) serving as an imitation or substitute | - |
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(noun) an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold | - |
quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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redneck | (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: cracker |
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roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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(noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
(verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
shipwreck | (noun) a wrecked ship (or a part of one) | - |
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(noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: wreck |
(noun) an irretrievable loss | - |
(verb) destroy a ship | - |
(verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
(verb) ruin utterly | - |
(verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
speck | (noun) a very small spot | Synonyms: pinpoint |
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(noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, tinge, touch |
(noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle |
(verb) produce specks in or on | - |
swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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turtleneck | (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtle |
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wreck | (noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea | - |
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(noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: crash |
(noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: shipwreck |
(noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation | - |
(verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wrack |
wryneck | (noun) Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck | - |
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(noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: torticollis |