rowing |
1. v. present participle of row | |
2. n. The action of the verb to row. | |
3. n. The action of propelling a boat with oars. | |
4. n. The rowing of boats as a competitive sport. | |
5. n. The act of having a row, or argument. | |
Alt |
1. n. A modifier key. | |
2. n. (music) High pitch, of a voice or instrument; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave. | |
3. n. (now archaic) A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition. | |
4. adj. abbreviation of alternate | |
5. adj. (abbreviation of alternative), especially as a cultural phenomenon seen as being outside the mainstream of its genre. | |
alt-rock, alt-country, alt-right, alt medicine | |
6. n. abbreviation of altitude | |
7. n. (Internet, gaming) An alternate or secondary character. | |
form |
1. n. To do with shape.: | |
2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. | |
3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. | |
4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back. | |
5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. | |
6. n. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. | |
7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure. | |
8. n. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. | |
9. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. | |
10. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. | |
a republican form of government | |
11. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. | |
a matter of mere form | |
12. n. (archaic) A class or rank in society. | |
13. n. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). | |
14. n. (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form). | |
15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. | |
To apply for the position, complete the application form. | |
16. n. Level of performance. | |
The team's form has been poor this year. | |
The orchestra was on top form this evening. | |
17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. | |
participial forms; verb forms | |
18. n. The den or home of a hare. | |
19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box. | |
20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank. | |
21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. | |
22. n. (geometry) A quantic. | |
23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement. | |
24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | |
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies. | |
25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | |
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet. | |
26. v. (intransitive) To take shape. | |
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy. | |
27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble. | |
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government. | |
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960. | |
28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. | |
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective. | |
29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up. | |
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders. | |
30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline. | |
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality. | |
31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form. | |
32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero | |
clam |
1. n. A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or (vern, hen clam) , and other s | |
2. n. Strong pincers or forceps. | |
3. n. A kind of vise, usually of wood. | |
4. n. (US, slang) A dollar (usually used in the plural). | |
Those sneakers cost me fifty clams! | |
5. n. (slang) A Scientologist. | |
6. n. (slang) A vagina. | |
7. n. (informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak. | |
8. v. To dig for clams. | |
9. n. A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. | |
10. v. To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. | |
11. adj. (obsolete,) clammy. | |
12. n. clamminess; moisture | |
13. v. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. | |
14. v. To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. | |
15. n. (rowing) (alt form, CLAM) | |