6. n-f. the rendering or the act of rendering the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black
7. n-f. ladle (container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal)
8. v. first-person singular present of pocher
9. v. third-person singular present of pocher
10. v. second-person singular imperative of pocher
1. n. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
2. n. Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.
I paid for it out of my own pocket.
3. n. (sports) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
4. n. An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
5. n. (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
6. n. (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roug
7. n. (American Football) The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.
8. n. (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
9. n. (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
10. n. A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries.
11. n. (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
12. n. (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
13. n. (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
14. n. The pouch of an animal.
15. n. (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
16. n. A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
17. n. A bight on a lee shore.
18. n. (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
19. v. To put (something) into a pocket.
20. v. (sports) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
21. v. (slang) To take and keep (especially money) that which is not one's own.
22. v. (slang) To shoplift, to steal.
23. v. (transitive, obsolete) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
24. adj. Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
pocket dictionary
25. adj. Smaller or more compact than usual.
pocket battleship, pocket beach
26. adj. (Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.
1. n. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
a bunch of grapes; a bunch of bananas; a bunch of keys; a bunch of yobs on a street corner
2. n. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. n. An informal body of friends.
He still hangs out with the same bunch.
4. n. (US, informal) A considerable amount.
a bunch of trouble
5. n. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
A bunch of them went down to the field.
6. n. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. n. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
8. n. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. n. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.
10. n. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
11. v. To gather into a bunch.
12. v. To gather fabric into folds.
13. v. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
14. v. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
15. v. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
Web
1. n. (Internet) Web.
2. n. (Zoologie) Toile d'araignée, toile.
3. n. (Internet) (Par ellipse) Toile (ellipse de World Wide Web, « toile d'araignée mondiale »).
web
The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
1. n. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
2. n. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
Let me search the web for that.
3. n. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
He caught the ball in the web.
4. n. A latticed or woven structure.
The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
5. n. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
6. n. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail. Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web
7. n. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
8. n. The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
9. n. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
10. n. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
11. n. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
12. n. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
13. n. The blade of a sword.
14. n. The blade of a saw.
15. n. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
16. n. The bit of a key.
17. v. (intransitive) To construct or form a web.
18. v. To cover with a web or network.
19. v. To ensnare or entangle.
20. v. To provide with a web.
21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To weave.
lame
1. adj. Boiteux, bancal.
Sa mère ne l'a pas appelé Lungri (le Boiteux) pour rien, dit Mère Louve tranquillement : il est boiteux d'un pied depuis sa naissance.
2. adj. (Figuré) Très faible.
a lame excuse
lame
1. adj. Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
2. adj. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
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