Vocabulary Words

noun

(social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact. (+5 more)

adjective, adverb, noun, verb

(in the plural) A corset. (+110 more)

adverb

In a steady manner.

adjective, adverb, noun, verb

A prostitute's regular customer. (+16 more)

noun, verb

(by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc. (+3 more)

noun, verb

(of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement. (+16 more)

adjective, noun, verb

A steam-powered vehicle. (+23 more)

adjective, noun, proper noun, verb

(colors) The gray hue of this metal (+28 more)

adjective

Having qualities resembling those of steel, especially hard and resolute. (+1 more)

adjective, noun, verb

(middle voice) To soak or wet thoroughly. (+15 more)

noun, verb

A helmsman (+13 more)

noun

A wheel-shaped control that is rotated by the driver to steer, existing in most modern land vehicles.

noun, verb

(chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism (+36 more)

noun, verb

(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation. (+40 more)

noun

The husband of one's biological mother, other than one's biological father, especially following the divorce or death of the father.

noun

A viola, especially Viola tricolor, heartsease. (+1 more)

noun, verb

(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations. (+9 more)

adjective, noun

A bird, the black tern. (+7 more)

noun, verb

A brothel. (+15 more)

adjective, noun, verb

(joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck. (+51 more)

adjective, noun, verb

(by extension) The listed price (also sticker price). (+17 more)

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