Old English | sp | English |
Sib | n | A blood relation, related to by blood or marriage, kinsman or kinswoman. 2. kinsman collectively, kindred, affinity, relatives. 3. peace, amity, concord. |
Sib | adj | Akin, allied, related by blood or descent, related, similar. |
Sib bond | n | A bond or bind, which connect descendants from a common ancestor, kindred, kinfolk, brother or sister. |
Sib-in-law | n | Sibling-in-law: a relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage. 2. the sibling of one's spouse.
3. the spouse of one's sibling. |
Sibling | n | Children having one or both parents in common. 2. a blood relation; a relative used in eugenics, psychology, and anthropology to denote brothers and sisters. |
Siblinged | adj | Having a sibling or siblings. |
Siblinghood | n | The state of being a sibling. |
Siblingless | adj | Without a sibling or siblings. |
Sibling-like | adj | Characteristic of a sibling. |
Siblingly | adv | Pertaining to sibling or siblings. |
Sibling-ship | n | The state or condition of being a sib. |
Sibman | n | Relative, relation, family member. |
Sibness | n | Relationship |
Sibrede | n | Relationship; kindred. |
Sibship | n | State of belonging to a sib, or to same sib or family group. 2. a group comprising all the individual born to a particular pair of parents. 3. a family. |
Sibsomeness | n | Peace, concord, amity, frith. |
Siche | vb | To sigh: to draw in and exhale a deep, audible breath, as in expressing sorrow, weariness, pain etc. 2. siching. |
Sick | n | "The Sick." -- those affected by physical or mental illness. |
Sick | adj | Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function. 2. affected by a disease of any kind, indisposed, in poor health, ill, ailing. 3. feeling of nausea, queasiness, sickish. 4. affected by madness or insanity, demented, brainsick, crazy, unhinged.5. having a strong distaste for overindulgence, sick to death of, sick up to, tired of. 6. of light, lacking intensity or brightness, dim or feeble, wan, pallid, pale. 7. deeply affected by a strong feeling, as in "sick with envy." 8. shoddy, repellent, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre. 9. 'the sick' collective name for persons not enjoying good health. |
Sick | vb | To eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth, vomit, spew, throw up, retch, chuck up, regurgitate. 2. to fall sick, sicken. |
Sick | phr | "Fall Sick" - become ill. |
Sick | phr | "Go Sick" - report oneself as ill. |
Sick | phr | "Look Sick" - be unimpressive or embarrassed |
Sick | phr | "Make One Sick" - cause one to be angry or upset. |
Sick | phr | "On the Sick List" - off duty owing to illness. |
Sick | phr | "Sick and Tired Of" - wearied, very tired, bored, exasperated, irritated by somebody/something. |
Sick | phr | "Sick As a Dog" - very sick with vomiting a great deal. 2. (fig) deeply concerned or depressed (often because of loss of opportunity). |
Sick | phr | "Sick At Heart" - unhappy; anxious, harrowed by doubt, disappointment, fear io grief. |
Sick | phr | "Sicken Of" - become weary of, disgusted with. |
Sick | phr | "Sickness Unto Death" - personal despair over the disquieting circumstances of human existence. 2. despair, profound discontent, or a similar persistent debilitating malaise of the mind, spirit,soul that produces a decline in mental, physical or societal health and that culminates in death or dissolution. |
Sick | phr | "Sick of the Sight of" - wearied, irritated, disgusted by somebody/something has seen or heard too often. 2. sick and tired of. |
Sick | phr | "Sick to Death of" - wearied, bored, annoyed by. 2. sick and tired of. |
Sick | phr | "Sick Up" - vomit, bring up food. |
Sick | phr | "Take Sick" - be taken ill. |
Sick | phr | "Worried Sick" - very worried. |
Sick bed | n | An invalid's bed. 2. the state of being an invalid. |
Sick-brained | adj | Mentally disordered. |
Sick call | n | A visit by a doctor to aa sick person. 2. in a military sense, a call or summons for sick men to attend. |
Sick day | n | A paid personal day intended to be used due to illness either for recuperation or medical treatment. |
Sicken | vb | To affect with loathing or disgust. 2. to show symptoms of illness. 3. to feel nausea or disgust, as sickened at the sight. |
Sickening | adj | Disgusting, nauseating, abhorrent, repugnance, detestable, fulsome, revolting. |
Sickening | adj | Loathsome, disgusting, very annoying, bothersome. |
Sickeningly | adv | In a sickening manner. |
Sicker | adj | (Siccer)Free from danger, or harm, secure, safe. 2. associated with safety or security from danger. 2. that may be depended on, on which one can put reliance, trust or certainty, sure. 3. having a firm foundation or support, unshaken part. 4. not liable to be distorted or unsettled, stable, assured, fixed, definite. 5. prudent, careful, undutiable, absolutely, certain. 6. genuine, good. 7. certain of it's effect, effective, sure. 8. having assured possession of something. 9. having confidence, or certain knowledge, fully assured or convinced. 10. having a sense of security. 11. assured of it's objective, confident, certain. 12. with safety, security, confident. 13. as a certainty, fact. 14. effective, with strength, firmly. 15. securely without risk of failing or shifting. |
Sicker | vb | To ooze, trickle, leak. |
Sickerhood | n | Assurance, certainty. |
Sickering | n | Security, secureness, safety, cautionness. |
Sickerhood | n | Assurance, certainty, conviction. |
Sickering | n | Security, security, safety, caution. |
Sickerly | adv | With full certainty, conviction. 2. without doubt, undoubtedly, certainty, decidely, assuredly. 3. positively, confidently with assurance. 4.in a firm manner, firmly, fast. 5. in a manner of obligation, binding. 6. in a steady or stable manner. 7. with certainty of result, efficaciously. 8. sharply, severely, smoothly. |
Sickerness | n | Certain prospect or possession of something, assurance, certainty. 2. Certainty as regard of feeling secure . 3. of sense of security, self-confidence. 4. state of condition of security; a freedom from danger or harm. 5. assured of source of security. 6. contract, bond, pledge. 7. safe keeping, safe custody. |
Sick headache | n | Migraine; paroxysmal headache associated with vomiting, disturbance of vision and prostration. |
Sick-house | n | A hospital. |
Sickie | n | A period of sick leave taken for insufficient medical reason. |
Sickish | adj | Somewhat sick or unwell; off-color. 2. about to become sick, out of sorts, sickly. |
Sickishly | adv | In a sickish manner. |
Sickishness | n | The initial state of becoming sick. |
Sickle | n | Old English 'sicol' to cut. An edged tool with a curved blade and a long handle used for cutting grass or crops. 2. anything sickle-shaped, especially the moon |
Sickle | vb | To cut with a sickle or scythe. |
Sickle | vb | To be ill, fall ill, to become sick, to ail. |
Sick leave | n | Leave of absence granted because of illness. |
Sickle-bill | n | A bird with a long curved narrow bill, especially any hummingbird of the genus Eutoxeres. |
Sickled | adj | Cut with a sickle, as hay or grass. |
Sickle-feather | n | Each of the long middle feathers of a cock's tail. |
Sickle-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a sickle. |
Sickle-shaped | adj | Anything sickle-shaped, especially the moon. |
Sickle-smith | n | A maker of sickles. |
Sickless | adj | Free from sickness, ill-less, well, healthy |
Sicklewe | adj | Sickly, unhealthy, diseased, ill-ridden. |
Sicklewort | n | Prunella vulgaris. |
Sickliness | n | The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature. |
Sickling | n | Action of cutting with a sickle or scythe. 2. one who is often sick and delicate or unhealthy, esp. a child. |
Sick list | n | A list of the sick, especially in a regiment, ship, etc. |
Sickly | adj | Unwell, unhealthy, of weak health, apt to be ill. 2. of a person's complexion, look, languid, pale, suggestion of sickness. 3. of light or color: faint, pale, feeble. 4. of a book, sentimental or mawkish. 5. of color: an unpleasant shade inducing nausea. |
Sickly sweet | adj | To sweet, sickeningly so. |
Sick-making | n | Sickening. |
Sickman | n | A sick person; a patient. |
Sickness | n | Ill-health, morbidity, disease. 2. illness; the state of being sick. 2. a particular form of disease, esp. nausea. 3. any disordered or weakness state, as "soul sickness." |
Sickroom | n | Room occupied by sick person. 2. a room adapted for sick people. |
Side | n | Any of the faces of a thing, specially, not the top or base; or not an end. 2. one of the lines limiting a plane form. 3. right or left (side) of a body, specially, from under arm to top the leg. 3a. One or two or more contrasted surfaces, parts, or places: inside and outside. 4. part of a thing to right or left of the middle division. 4a. the lateral half of a slaughtered animal; the carcass. 5. part or place near the edge and away from the middle of a thing. 6. space near, about, direction facing, one's part, person or thing. 6. part of a question etc., question seen from one point of view. 7. cause supported by one of two opposing factions or groups in war, politics, sport etc. 8. a family connection, esp. by descent through one parent, as in my father's side. 8. the behavior of a person over-pleased with himself; an air or bearing of being self-important; pretentiousness, superciliousness. 9. all around and about: on all sides. 10. support or approval given to one; being on the side of. 11. put out of the way, put out of the way for future use: put to one side. 11. a less important issue than some other one: a side thing or issue. 12. support given to someone in an argument, dispute: take side or side with. 14. an extra-marital relationship: a bit on the side. |
Side | vb | To take up the cause of. 2. To cut into sides, as a carcass. |
Side | phr | "Bit on the Side" - have extramarital partners. |
Side | phr | "By the Side of" - close to, near by. |
Side | phr | "Feel the Rough Side of Someone's Tongue" - to be verbally abused. |
Side | phr | "From All Sides" - from all directions. |
Side | phr | "From Side to Side" - right cross. 2. alternately each way from a central line. |
Side | phr | "Get On the Wrong Side of Somebody" = become dislike by somebody. |
Side | phr | "Keep On the Right Side Of" - to take care not to offend; to flatter. 2. make an good impression on a person. |
Side | phr | "Let the Side Down" - perform badly to the detriment of other members one's group, team etc. |
Side | phr | "Like the Side of a House" - very large in size; obese. |
Side | phr | Look On the Dark Side" - be pessimistic. |
Side | phr | "Look On the Bright side Of Life" - be optimistic. |
Side | phr | "On All Sides" - in all directions. |
Side | phr | "On Every Side" - in all directions, everywhere. 2. from and on all sides. |
Side | phr | "On the Bright Side" - with favorable aspects. |
Side | phr | "On the Other Side" - Life after death; (heaven), paradise. |
Side | phr | "On the Right Side of" - nearly, just less than. |
Side | phr | "On the Side" - as a sideline; in addition to one's regular work. 2. transacting of business out of one's normal field (usually one 's regular job) and often secretly or illicitly. |
Side | phr | "On the Side of Angels?" - on the side of what is righteous, correct and moral. |
Side | phr | "On the Wrong Side of" - just more than (an age). |
Side | phr | "Put On Side" - pretend to be what one is not. 2. give oneself airs, be bumptious. |
Side | phr | "Put to One side" - postpone something. |
Side | phr | "Rise On/Get Out the Wong Side of the Bed" - be irritable, grumpy or bad tempered early in the day. |
Side | phr | "Side by Each" - side by side. |
Side | phr | "Side by Side" - one beside the other; close together, alongside, abreast, close at hand, near to, neighboring, touching or near to, in company or along with. 2. standing close together; especially for mutual support. 2. sport: designating a race or competition in which contestants start at the same time, racing alongside each other. |
Side | phr | "Side With" - to arrange or put oneself on the side of; to take the part of in a dispute. 2. to agree or agree in opinion with. 3. back, back up, champion, fall in with, get behind, go in with, collaborate, stand behind, stand in with, stick by, stick up for, string along with, team with, throw lot in with. |
Side | phr | "Stop Up a Hole in a Sieve" - do something quite useless. |
Side | phr | "Take Sides." - to attach oneself to, give attendance to or support one or two opposing sides or parties. 2. support one or another cause or dispute. |
Side | phr | "Take to One Side" - talk to somebody privately (away from others). |
Side | phr | "Thorn in Someone Side" - to be a person whose persistent presence and righteous views annoy. |
Side | phr | "To the One Side" - askew, awry. |
Side axe | n | An axe ground on one side only. |
Side bearing | n | (In typography) the margin of the empty space on the left or right-hand side of a character in typeface. |
Side-bitch | n | (Black slang) a mistress; a woman one dates in addition to his wife, usually in secret. 2. paramour. |
Side-blade | n | A lateral blade, a blade protuding from the side of a weapon. |
Sideboard | n | A table oe especially a cupboard at the side of a dining room for supporting and containing dishes, table linen, decanters etc. 2. In Britain and some other countries of the Commonwealth: hair grown by a man each side of his face; side-whiskers. |
Side-bone | n | Part of the pelvis on either side of a bird or fowl which is easily separated from the backbone in carving. 2. sometimes the scapula or shoulder blade. 3. ossification of the flexible cartilage behind the cannon bone of the leg(usually fore) of a horse. |
Side-box | n | A box placed alongside the main text in a book, etc containing further related text. 2. a box set in the side of a theatre's auditorium. |
Side-burden | n | (Geology) the rock and subsoil that lies next to a mineral deposit such as a coal stream. |
Side-by-side | adj | Close together, alongside, abreast, close at hand, near to, touching or near to, in company or along with. 2. standing close together; especially for mutual support. 3. sport: designating a race or competition in which contestants start at the same time, racing alongside each other. |
Side chest | n | (Bodybuilding) a standard pose in which one's arm is bent at the elbow, and the chest muscles are flexed , with one side ? to the judges. |
Sided | adj | Having sides. 2. (in combination)having a specified side or number of sides (three-sided). 2. |
Side dish | n | An extra dish subsidiary to the main course. |
Sidedly | adv | Of or relating to the side (of something) ; lateral. |
Sidedness | n | The condition of having a specific number or form of sides. 2. handedness. |
Side door | n | A door at the side of a building. 2. an indirect means of access. |
Side-eye | vb | A sidelong glance expressing disapproval or contempt. |
Side-flights | n | A staircase in which return flights branch to right and left. 2. a return in two flights. |
Side foot | n | To kick something with the instep of the foot; shanked. |
Side hall | n | Having a corridor aling one side of a building, rather than the centre. |
Side hand | n | Move by placing the palm of the hand on top and sliding sideways. |
Side-handed | adj | Sideways from the hand. 2. done with the side of the hand. 3. indirect, subtle, sly. 3. an expanding baton or nightstick. |
Side-handed | adv | Of an action executed by the hand sideways. 2. using the side of the hand. |
Side-handedly | adv | Indirectly. |
Side hill | n | A hillside. |
Sideland | n | A byland; a peninsula. 2. an adjoining piece of land. 3. a portion of land jutting into the sea. |
Sidelength | n | (Mathematics) the length of a side of a polygon. |
Sideless | adj | Lacking a side; open at the sides. |
Side-light | n | A course of business, an interest pursued aside from one's regular occupation; a hobby. 2. a view or light on some question or matter from at a yet to be looked at direction. 3. a light from the side. 4. incidental information. 5. a light at the side of the front of a vehicle to warn off its presence. 6. the red port or green starboard light on a ship underway. |
Side-line | n | Work, interest, activity taken up in addition to one's chief or min one. 2. the space next to where spectators sit |
Sideline | vb | To withdraw a player from a sporting team because of sickness or injury. |
Sidlines | phr | "From the Sidelines" - in (or from) a position removed from the main action. |
Sidelines | phr | "Sit on the Sidelines" - observe something without taking part in it. |
Side-liner | n | One who stays on the sidelines. 2. a spectator, a non-participant. |
Sideling | adj | Sideways, havinga a slanting or oblique position or motion; indirect; aslant. |
Sideling | adv | Sidewise, obliquely, indirectly. |
Sideload | n | (Computing) to transfer data between two local devices, rather than to or from a remote device. |
Side-load | vb | To load (something) into the side of a vessel, vehicle, etc., rather than the front or back. |
Sidelock | n | A lock of hair worn at the side of the hair. 2. the design of a gun or firearm that has a lock? mounted to the inside of the plate, compare 'boxlock' |
Sidelong | adj | Moving, turning, or inclining to one side; lateral, oblique, not directly forward. |
Sidelong | adv | Obliquely; on the side. 2. steeply inclined. |
Sidely | adv | Of or relating to the side (of something);lateral. |
Sidely | adv | To the sides; sideways, laterally, obliquely, indirectly. |
Sideman | n | A partisan, a supporter, follower, one on the a side, sidesman. 2. a supporting musician in a band, as distinguished from the featured performers, especially a jazz band. 3. a person going around with a plate etc. collecting money in church. |
Sidemeat | n | a size of salt pork or beacon. |
Sideness | n | The state or postion of being sideways or side-on. |
Side-netting | n | In soccer, the net at either side of the goal, extending from the touchline to a few yards behind it. |
Sidenhand | adv | On one side, aside, to the side. |
Side-on | adv | Aspect or look of various bodies, animal, persons, things etc. viewed from the side. 2. on or towards one side. 3. (of a collision) involving the side of a vehicle. |
Sider | n | One who sides, or takes sides with a person or cause; a partisan, follower, supporter, fellow-traveler. |
Side road | n | A minor or subsidiary road, especially joining or diverging from the main road. |
Side-rod | n | The coupling rod of a locomotive engine. |
Side-saddle | n | A saddle for a woman rider who drive with both feet on the same side of the horse . 2. |
Side-saddle | adv | Sitting side-saddle on a horse. |
Side-seat | n | A seat in a vehicle etc. in which the occupant has his or her back to the side of a vehicle. |
Side shadow | n | A literary technique that uses references not in the current text. |
Side-shadowness | n | The sate of a literary technique that uses references not in the current text. |
Side shot | n | (Surveying) A reading or measurement from a survey station to locate a point that is off the traverse or that is not intended to be used as a base for the extension of the survey. It is usually made to determine the position of some object that is to be shown on a map. |
Sideshow | n | A small show incidental to a larger or more important one. 2. a minor exhibition at a fair. 3. any subordinate or minor issue or matter. |
Sidesman | n | A churchwarden's assistant who shows worshipers to their seat, takes the collection. |
Sidestep | n | A step or movement to one side, as of a boxer. 2. a step on the side of a thing for ascending and descending. |
Sidestep | vb | To step to one side, avoid or negate responsibility. 2. to avoid as an issue, or postpone, as a decision, evade. |
Side stepper | n | One who side steps an issue etc. |
Sidestick | n | A cylindrical stick used to limit the movement of a horse's head. |
Sidestreet | n | A minor street intersecting a main street and terminating there. |
Sidestroke | n | A stroke towards or from the side. 2. an incidental action. 3. a swimming stroke on which the swimmer lies on their side. |
Side tool | n | Any tool with a cutting face at the side. |
Side-swipe ??? | n | Indirect rebuke, censure, hint. |
Sidewalk | n | A path or pavement at the side of a street for the use of a pedestrian. 2. a footpath; a footway at the side of a road. |
Sidewalk outline | n | The chalked out figure of the corpse at a crime scene. |
Side wall | n | A gable; a room-wall which does not hold the principal window or fireplace; any wall of an enclosure. |
Sidewards | adj | Directed or moving towards or from the side, lateral. |
Sidewards | adv | Directed or moving towards or from the side, lateral. |
Sideways | adv | From one side; to, from, one side; with front turned to side. 2. so as to incline towards the side, or with the side forward -- moving it sideways. 3. towards one side, askance, oblique, indirectly. 4. moving to or from one side, as in a sideways glance. |
Sideways | phr | "Knock Somebody Sideways" - confuse, shock someone. |
Side wheeler | n | A steamer with paddle wheels; a paddle steamer. |
Side wheels | n | A wheel at the side; specifically one of the two wheels on either side of a steamboat. |
Side-wife | n | A woman who (among others) has the potential to become one's wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one's wife in addition to one's actual wife; a concubine, an affair partner. |
Side wind | n | A wind from the side. 2. an indirect agency or influence; an indirect attack. 3. an underhanded course of action |
Sidewinder | n | An American rattlesnake, so-called because of its lateral motiion. 2. (slang) a sideways blow. |
Side windows | n | Each of the widows on both right and left side of the car. |
Sidewings | n | The openings between the wings of a theatre. |
Sidewise | adv | In a lateral direction, sidewards, sideways. 2. to one side. 3. on or from the side. 4. in an indirect manner. 5. directed towards one side. |
Side yard | n | A yard at the side of a building. |
Siding | n | The act of taking sides, as in a controversy. 2. a short railway track that runs beside the main line, on which trains or wagons are shunted on 4. boarding or cladding material for the outside of a building. 5. weather boards or drop-sidings for vertical surfaces, as feather-edge boards. |
Sidle | n | A sideways step or movement, sidling |
Sidle | vb | To move sideways, especially. in a cautious or stealthy way. 2. to cause to move sideways. |
Sidlle | phr | "Sidle Along" - to walk in a timid, timid, furtive, stealth, or cringing manner. |
Sidle | phr | "Sidle Up (to)" - approach in a nervous or furtive way. |
Sidth | n | A side, length, depth, sith. |
Sidy | adj | Inclined to put on one side. 2. assuming an air of psuedo-superiority; affected in manner, swaggering. |
Sieve | n | A utensil having a perforated or meshed bottom for separating solids or coarse from liquids or fine particles, or for reducing a soft solid to a fine pulp. 2. a vessel used by witches to sail in. 3. a divination tool. 4. used as a measure, or for holding anything. |
Sieve | vb | To put through a sift with a sieve. 2. examine evidence to select or separate. |
Sieve | phr | "A Young Man's Love is Water in a Sieve" - love knows no reason, but often much confusion. 2. young love is fleeting. |
Sieve | phr | "Head Like a Sieve" - a memory that retains little. |
Sieve | phr | "Sieve and Shears" - an ancient form of divination mentioned by Theocritus. The points of the shears were stuck in the wooden rim of the sieve and two persons supported it upright with the tips of their two fingers. Then a verse of the Bible was read aloud, and St Peter and St Paul were asked if the guilty person was A, B, C (naming those suspected.) When the guilty person was named the sieve would suddenly turn around. This method was also used to tell if a couple would marry etc |
Sieved | adj | Separated as solids or coarse materials from liquids or fine particles, or for reducing a soft solid to a fine pulp. |
Sieveful | adj | As much as a sieve can hold. |
Sieve-like | adj | Resembling a sieve; thus having holes through which fluids can pass. |
Sievewright | n | A maker of sieves used in earlier times to separate wheat from chaff. |
Sieving | n | The act of passing something through a sieve. 2. materials that pass through a sieve. |
Sievish | adj | (Figuratively, of memory) like a sieve; unretentive. |
Sift | n | A sieve. |
Sift | vb | To separate coarser wood from finer ones. 2. to separate with a sieve. 3. to bolt, scrutinize, analyse, investigate, examine carefully or closely. |
Sift | phr | "Sift Out" - examine, analyse closely. |
Sift | phr | "Sift through" - examine by sifting. |
Sifted | adj | Separated by sifting. |
Sifter | n | A sieve. 2. a person who analyses things thoroughly. |
Sifting | n | Something removed or separated by a sieve. |
Siftingly | adv | So as to sift or sort through. |
Sigh | n | A long deep breath, expressive of sorrow, fatigue, regret, or relief. |
Sigh | vb | To make a deep, single respiration, as the expression of exhaustion or sorrow. 2. to utter a long audibe breath. 3. to utter sighs over. 4. to mourn over. |
Sigh | phr | "To Sigh Over" - to yearn for, long for. 2. to grieve for. |
Sigher | n | One who sighs. |
Sighful | adj | Full of sighs or prone to sighing. |
Sighing | n | The utterance of a sigh. |
Sighingly | adv | In a sighing manner; with a sigh. |
Sighless | n | Without a sigh. |
Sighlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a sigh. |
Sight | n | The power of seeing things; seeing, eyesight; field of vision. 2. aspect, appearance, look, view. 3. person or thing whose look, general condition, gives a shock to the eye; a spectacle; eyesore. 4. the second a person is seen; a glimpse. 5. a glance, gander, observation. 6. in archaic usage, it often denotes a ' crowd or multitude' or a large number of persons or things. |
Sight | vb | Suddenly see or catch sight of. 2. to behold, discern, distinguish, glimpse, observe, perceive |
Sight | phr | "A Sight Better Than " - very much than. |
Sight | phr | "At First Sight" - of first glimpse or impression (love). |
Sight | phr | "At Sight" - immediately. |
Sight | phr | "Be Short-sighted" - not to recognize the likely consequences. |
Sight | phr | "Do Something On Sight" - do something immediately, without hesitation. |
Sight | phr | "Get Out of My Sight" - go away. |
Sight | pht | "Have Lost Sight Of " - no longer know the whereabouts of |
Sight | phr | "In One's Sights" - in one's range of vision, or in one's awareness (with a view to possession). |
Sight | phr | "In Sight Of" - visible, at hand, near; close enough to be seen. |
Sight | phr | "Keep Sight Of Something" - remain aware of something. |
Sight | phr | "Know Somebody By Sight" - recognize somebody(to whom one has not been introduced). |
Sight | phr | "Lose One's Sight" - go blind. |
Sight | phr | "Lose Sight Of" - cease to see or beware of. |
Sight | phr | "On Sight" - as soon as a person or thing has been seen. |
Sight | phr | "Out of Sight" - not visible. 2. (colloquial): excellent, delightful. |
Sight | phr | Out of Sight, Out Of Mind" - ignore. 2. what one cannot see, will soon be forgotten. |
Sight | phr | "Out of My Sight" - go away at once |
Sight | phr | "Put Out of Sight" - to conceal quickly. 2. to conceal a large portion of food |
Sight | phr | "Set One's Sights On" - aim at, try to achieve something. |
Sight | phr | "Sick of the Sight Of" - very tired of seeing somebody/ |
Sight | phr | "Sight for Sore Eyes" - something that is very pleasurable to see or witness, especially something unexpected or surprising. |
Sight | phr | "Sight for the Gods" - a welcome person or thing. |
Sight | phr | "Sight In" - to align the sights of a firearm. |
Sight | phr | "Sight to Behold" - an especially impressive, noteworthy, or remarkable person, event, or thing; something or someone who is very much worth seeing. |
Sight | phr | "Sight Unseen" - without been seen or examined. |
Sight | phr | "Take Sight" - to aim carefully. |
Sight | phr | "Within Sight Of" - to see or be seen from. |
Sight | phr | "With @0/20 Hindsight" - with the benfit of knowing what has happened. |
Sight board | n | A large white screen(now Electronic) used on a cricket field to help the batsmen sight the ball |
Sighted | adj | Capable of seeing, not blind. 2. having a specific or abnormal kind of sight, as 'long-sighted' far-sighted, short-sighted. |
Sightedness | n | The quality of being sighted or having the ability to see. |
Sighter | n | In shooting, a trial shot to obtain a range. |
Sightful | adj | Easily or clearly seen; distinctively visible, observant. |
Sightfulness | n | The state of being sightful; perspicuity. |
Sightglass | n | A transparent device for observing the interiorof apparutus etc. |
Sight-hole | n | a peep hole. |
Sighthound | n | A hound or dog that hunts by speed and sight. |
Sighting | n | The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for. |
Sighting shot | n | An experimental shot for guiding gunners in adjusting their sights. |
Sightless | adj | Bind; without sight; not appearing to sight. 2. (poetic) invisible. |
Sightlessly | adv | In a sightless manner; blindly. |
Sightlessness | n | Blindness. |
Sightline | n | A hypothetical line from a person's eyes to what is seen. 2.an inside edge of of a member of a piece of framing. |
Sightliness | n | Comeliness, attractiveness, gracefulness; beauty. |
Sightly | adj | Beautiful, fair, comely, handsome, sheen, pleasing to the eye; handsome. 2. attractive to the sight; not unsightly; well-proportioned. 3. visible, conspicuous, keen-sighted. |
Sight-read | vb | to read and perform music at sight. |
Sight-reader | n | One who reads, interprets and perform music at sight. |
Sight-reading | n | One who performs sight-reading of music. |
Sightsee | vb | To visit places of interest as a tourist. |
Sight-seeing | n | The visiting (indiscriminately or planned) of objects of interest: sights of the town, mainly by visitors and tourists |
Sightseer | n | One who visits objects of interest: sights of the town, mainly as a visitor and/or tourist. |
Sight-sing | vb | Sing music at at sight. |
Sightsman | n | One who points out sights or objects of interest to tourists. 2. a local guide, tourist guide, cicerone. |
Sight unseen | adv | Without previous inspection. |
Sightwise | adv | Pertaining to, concerning or regarding sight or things or vision or things seen. |
Sight words | n | Sight words is a common term in reading that has a variety of meanings. When it is applied to early reading instruction, it typically refers to the set of about 100 words that keeps reappearing on almost any page of text. “Who, the, he, were, does, their, me, be” are a few examples. |
Sightworthy | adj | Sightly; worthy of being visited. 2. worth seeing or visiting. |
Sike | n | A marshy bottom with a stream flowing through it. 2. a watercourse, small stream, creek, beck, rill, a syke. 2. gully, dip, or hollow. 3. a stretch of meadow, mead, field |
Silk | n | The creamy-white or yellowish, very fine natural, strong, soft fibre product by various insects, especially by larvae of the silkworm, to form their cocoons. 2. cloth, thread or garments made of silk. |
Silk | phr | "To Hit the Silk" -- to descend from an airplane by parachute. |
Silk | vb | To clothe or cover with silk; to be silken. |
Silk | phr | "Take Silk" - become a Senior Counsel in law. |
Silken | adj | Made, resembling or consisting of silk, silky, silken. 2. silk-like, soft, glossy, shining, lustrous. 3. elegant, ingratiating of words, flattering. 4. of persons, their looks or voice: effeminate, soft, sweet, balmy, gentle. 4. soft , low in sound. |
Silk | vb | To clothe or cover with silk; to be silken or have a silky lustre. |
Silken | vb | Made of silk. 2. wearing silk. 3. soft or lustrous like silk. 4. (of a person's manner etc) suave or insinuating. 5. (of sporting skills) smooth and free-flowing in movement. |
Silk fowl | n | A breed of fowl with silky plumage. |
Silk-hat | n | A top hat covered with plush and ironed to produce a high, silky polish. |
Silkily | adv | In a silky or smooth manner. |
Silkiness | n | The quality of being smooth and smooth to the touch. |
Silkless | adj | Lacking silk. |
Silk-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of silk in some way. |
Silkman | n | A dealer in or manufacturer of silk; also, a operative in a silk factory. |
Silk mill | n | A mill for reeling, spinning and manufacturing silk. |
Silkmoth | n | Any of various large moths, whose caterpillars spin a protective silken cocoon, especially the adult of the silkworm. |
Silkness | n | Silkiness. |
Silk oak | n | See "Silky oak" |
Silk-spinner | n | Any moth that whose larvae spins silk to line their cocoons. |
Silk Road | n | The ancient caravan route along which silk was carried to China. |
Silkstone | n | |
Silk-tail | n | A bird like the common waxwing or chatterer. |
Silk-thrower | n | One who twists or spins silk and prepares it for weaveing |
Silkware | n | Articles made from silk. |
Silkwear | n | Clothing made of silk. |
Silkweed | n | Milkweed. |
Silkwood | n | The Queensland Maple or Eucalyptus Maple of Queensland, Aistralia. |
Silkwork | n | Goods or products manufactured from silk. |
Silkworks | n | A silk manufactory. |
Silkworm | n | The caterpillar of the moth Bombyx mori who spin a cocoon of silk and is bred commercially for this. |
Silkworm gut | n | A very strong, fine cord made from the gut of the silkworm, used by hobby fishermen and as a material for suture by surgeons. |
Silky | adj | Like silk to smoothness, softness, firmness, glossy or lustre. 2. made of silk, or pertaining to silk; silklike. 3. (of a person's manner) smooth, suave, insinuating and persuasive (in a negative sense).. |
Silky anteater | n | A species of anteater, Cyclopes didactylus. |
Silky ash | n | Ehretia accuminata - a light fawn, smooth, lustrous. Similar to white ash in grain and texture. Easily wrought and polishes well. |
Silky beech | n | Villaresia moorei, it resembles English beech,and is a native to Queensland. |
Silky oak | n | Cardwellia sublimis, an excellent wood which is not difficult to work. It polishes well, but does not fume readily. 2. any of certain trees or shrubs in the the family Proteaceae. |
Silky smooth | adj | Extremely smooth. |
Silky wood | n | Sometimes applied to highly figured Canadian yellow birch. |
Sill | n | The piece of wood or stone-work forming the lower horizontal part a the window opening. 2. the threshold of a door or gateway; the lower part of a door case. 4. the floor of a gallery in a mine. |
Sillikin | n | A simpleton, fool, blockhead, dill. |
Sillily | adv | Poorly, badly or in a senseless manner. 2. in a foolish manner, absurd |
Silliness | n | The quality or state of being silly, foolish, trifling, mentally incapable. |
Silly | adj | Is the German selig (blessed) and use to mean in English 'happy through being innocent'; whence the baby Jesus was termed ' the harmless, silly babe', and sheep were called 'silly'. As the innocent are easily taken in by wordly cunning cunning, the word to signify 'gullible', 'foolish'. 2. ithout good sense, simple, foolish, imbecilic, idiotic, fatuous. 3. frail, weak, feeble, helpless, defenceless, esp. of women and children. 4. of animals, like sheep. 5. weak, feeble, sickly, ailing, insignificant, trifling. 6. scanty, meager, poor, sorry. 7. unlearned, unsophisticated, rustic, ignorant. 7. mental or physical incapable. |
Silly goose | n | A silly or foolish person. |
Silly head | adj | A silly or foolish person. |
Sillyish | adj | Somewhat silly. |
Silver | n | A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile with malleable and capable of a high degree of polish. 2. a soft, white, precious, univalent metallic element having the highest electrical thermal conductivity of any metal. 3. a metallic element of various light shades or hue: lustrous, grey, argent, slivery, silverish, light ash-grey, ash grey or silver grey. |
Silver | vb | To cover with silver ; give a silver appearance. 2. to acquire a silver colour. 3. to impart a brightness on something. 4. to make hoary or white like silver. |
Silver | phr | "Born With a Silver Spoon in One's Mouth" - to be brought up by wealthy parents. |
Silver | phr | "Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining" - there are benefits and positive outcomes even in adverse situations. |
Silver | phr | "Have a Silver Tongue" - be eloquent. |
Silver ash | n | Eucalyptus sieberi, the silvertop ash or black ash, is a common eucalyptus tree of south eastern Australia. The range of distribution is in the higher rainfall areas, from near sea level to high altitude. Growing on shallow soils of medium to low fertility, south from Morisset, New South Wales to Victoria and Tasmania. It can grow to 45 metres in height, though is mostly seen between 15 and 30 metres tall. The tree can be identified by the black rough bark at the base, and the smooth cream upper branches |
Silverback | n | A silverback gorilla is the mature, experienced male leader of a group of mountain gorillas in the wild. Named for the silver saddles across his back, the silverback is responsible for the safety of his group. A group of gorillas, also called a “troop,” can contain from 5 to 30 gorillas. |
Silver bath | n | A solution of silver nitrate, used for sensitizing plates in photography. 2. the flat dish or tray used for this. |
Silver beech | n | Nothofagus menziesii, commonly known as silver beech, is a tree of the southern beech family endemic to New Zealand. Its common name probably comes from the fact that its bark is whitish in colour, particularly in younger specimens. |
Silver-beet | n | Chard (also known as Swiss chard, Silverbeet, Perpetual spinach, or Mangold) is a vegetable. It is in the same family as Spinach, Amaranthaceae. |
Silver berry | n | A shrub (Elaegenus commutata) of the north-western United States, with silvery foliage, flowers and edible fruit. |
Silver birch | n | A common birch, european birch, or betula alba, with silver-colored bark. |
Silver cloth | n | The world of motion pictures; filmdom, moviedom. In the early days of motion pictures, a silver lenticular (vertically ridged) screens, which are made from a tightly woven fabric, either natural, such as silk, or a synthetic fiber, were excellent for use with low-power projector lamp heads and the monochromatic images that were a staple of early projected images. |
Silvered | adj | Coated with silver or made reflective or shiny. |
Silver eel | n | The silver eel (Ariosoma mellissii), also known as the Melliss's conger,[2] is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).[3] It was described by Albert Günther in 1870.[4] It is a rare tropical, marine eel which is known solely from St. Helena, in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is known to dwell at a maximum depth of 67 meters. Males can reach a maximum total length of 42.8 centimetres. |
Silver eye | n | The silvereye or wax-eye is a very small omnivorous passerine bird of the south-west pacific. In Australia and New Zealand its common name is sometimes white-eye, but this name is more commonly used to refer to all members of the genus Zosterops, or the entire family Zosteropidae. |
Silver fern | n | New Zealand tree fern, Cyathea dealbata. 2. a stylized silver fern leaf as an emblem of New Zealand. |
Silver fin | n | A small Norh American freshwater cyrinoid fish, Cyprinella whipplei. |
Silver fir | n | Applied to several species of Abies. |
Silver fish | n | Any small silvery wingless insect of the order Thysanura, esp. Lepisma saccharia in houses nd other buildings. 2. a silver-colored fish, especially a colorless variety of gold-fish. |
Silver fox | n | Variety of the common fox (Vulpes vulpes) found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia and America. 2. a dark-haired man with silvery-grey tips or threads through his hair. |
Silver frost | n | A deposit of glaze on trees and shrubs and other exposed objects during the fall of freezing precipitation (the product of an ice storm). |
Silver gar | n | A spear. |
Silver gilt | n | Silver or silver-plate with a thin plating of gold; gilded silver. 2. an imitation gilding of yellow lacquer over silver-leaf. |
Silver grey | n | A grey or bluish color like that of ailver; lustrous grey. |
Silver-grey | adj | A lustrous-grey color. |
Silver greywood | n | The chugam of the Andaman isles and India. |
Silver-haired | adj | Having white or lustrous, grey hair. |
Silver-headed | adj | Tipped with silver; white haired. |
Silverily | adv | In a silvery manner. |
Silveriness | n | The state or quality of being silvery. |
Silvering | n | The process of coating glass with a silver film. |
Silver-leaf | n | Any of several plants that have silvery leaf. 2. a fungal disease of fruit trees. 3. silver beaten into a thin, fine leaf. |
Silverless | adj | In a silvery manner. |
Silver-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of metal silver. |
Silver-lining | n | Consolation or hopeful feature in misfortune. 2. prospects of a better time to come. |
Silver-lining | phr | "Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining" - |
Silverly | adv | With a silverly appearance or sound. |
Silver moth | n | A grub destructive to silver beet. |
Silvern | adj | Made of silver |
Silver sand | n | A fine, pure, white sand used in gardening. |
Silverside | n | The upper side of a round of beef from the outside of the leg and suitable for salting. |
Silverskin | n | A silverskin onion. |
Silver slumber | n | A sweet, gentle, peaceful sleep or nap. |
Silversmith | n | A worker in silver. 2. a manufacturer of silver articles. |
Silversmithing | n | The work of silversmith; the forging of silver. |
Silver spoon | n | A sign of future prosperity. |
Silver Star | n | A U.S. military decoration, first issued in 1932, in the form of a bronze star inset with a small raised silver star, awarded for gallantry in action. |
Silver steel | n | An alloy of steel with a very small proportion of silver. 2. common tool steel as a centerless ground round bar. |
Silver stick | n | A field-officer of the Life Guards on duty at the royal palace whose insignia of office is a silver wand. |
Silver streak | n | The English Channel. |
Silver tail | n | (In Australia) a term to describe a wealthy person. |
Silver thaw | n | A formation of a glassy coating of ice on the ground or an exposed surface by freezing rain or the refreezing of thawed ice. 2. a condition when ice on roads is covered with a thin layer of moisture; black ice. |
Silver thistle | n | The acanthus. |
Silver thorn | n | Elaeagnus pungens is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeagnaceae, known by the common names thorny olive, spiny oleaster and silverthorn; also by the family name "oleaster". It is native to Asia, including China and Japan. |
Silver-tongue | n | Person readily, clear, effective, fluent, eloquent of speech. 2. silver-voice, clear and ringing. |
Silver-tongued | adj | Persuasive, eloquent. |
Silver top | n | A kind of eucalyptus tree Eucalyptus sieberana. 2. a disease, due to insects attacking the upper stalks of grasses. |
Silver Tree | n | A monument fashioned by Guillaume Boucher, a Parisian silversmith who was captured during the Mongol invasion of Eastern European. Boucher had the Silver tree erected in the middle of the palace courtyard at Karakorum. The original disappeared centuries ago; today, on the site of Karakorum, the Mongolian government has set up a reproduction of Boucher's Silver Tree. 2. a small South African shrub. |
Silverware | n | Articles made of or coated with silver, especially tableware. |
Silver-wedding | n | The 25th anniversary of a wedding. |
Silver weed | n | A wayside plant with silvery leaves on the underside,esp., a potentilla. |
Silver whiting | n | Southern school whiting. |
Silverwork | n | Work, usually ornamental, done in silver. |
Silverwort | n | Potentilla anserina, goose grass, wild tansy. |
Silvery | adj | Like silver in color or appearance. 2. having a gentle ringing sound. 3. (of the hair) white and lustrous. |
Silvery sedge | n | A sedge species, Carex canescens. |
Sin | n | Moral wrongdoing, an offence against God, a misdeed, transgression, trespass, offence. |
Sin | adv | Then, thereupon, thereafter, afterwords, subsequently, from that time onward, before now, ago, long sin, for a long time before, from after, subsequent to, from or since the time that. 2. a contracted form of sithen; sen, syne, since. |
Sin | phr | "For One's Sins" - (jocular) a judgement on one for something or other. 2. by way of punishment, as it were. |
Sin | phr | "Like Sin" - (colloquial) vehemently or forcefully. |
Sin | phr | "Live in Sin" - live together without being married. |
Sin | phr | "Old Sins Have Long Shadows" - past misdeeds are liable to return to haunt a person. |
Sin | phr | "Seven Deadly Sins" - pride , wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, avarice and sloth. |
Sin | phr | "Sin Against" - break transgress, some moral or religious law; offend (against). |
Sin | phr | "Man of Sin" - the Antichrist. |
Since | adv | From then till now, subsequently, ago. |
Since | adv | Reduced form of sithence; sineth. 2. from then till now, subsequently, ago. |
Since | conj | From the time that; seeing that, because that; inasmuch as. |
Since | prp | At some time, subsequent to, after. |
Since | phr | "Since When" - (sarcastic): from what time. 2. an interrogative interjection meaning:used to indicate doubt ofthe veracity of a statement. |
Sin bin | n | In some sports, a penalty box. 2. a place set aside for offenders of various kinds. |
Sine | n | Sinew, huxen, hockshin. |
Sin eater | n | A person who, through ritual means, would take on by means of food and drink (sin eating), the sins of a deceased person thus absolving his or her soul and allowing the person to rest in peace. |
Sineth | adv | Since, alteration of sithen |
Sinew | n | A rib in a leaf. 2. a nerve. 3. strength, energy, force. 3. the main strength, mainstay or chief force of something, as the "sinews of war," that is, the money of financing of the campaigns. 4. strength, or that which supplies strength. |
Sinew | vb | To supply with a something to strengthen, as by sinew. 2. to enervate, harden, innure. |
Sinew | phr | "Sinews of War" - money, as a means of carrying on war. 2. essential funds for the prosecution of a war. Tropps have to be paid and fed and the materials of war are costly. |
Sinewed | adj | Having sinews; strong, firm, vigorous. |
Sinewer | n | A strengther, a mainstay, driving force. |
Sinewish | adj | Pertaining to sinews and their strength, energy and vigor. 2. sinewy. |
Sinewless | adj | Destitute, without or lacking, vigor, feeble, flabby, weak, enervated, powerless. |
Sinewness | n | The state or quality of being sinewy. |
Sinewy | adj | Characteristic or consisting of sinew or nerve. 2. well-braced with sinews, strong, brawny. |
Sinflood | n | The Deluge; the Flood. |
Sinful | adj | Characterized by wickedness or iniquity; unholy. 2. having committed unrighteous acts. 3. far more than usual, over-the-top, extraordinary. 3. suggestive or tainted with sin, criminal, bad, damnable, evil, evil-doing. 4. evil., unholy, unrighteous, unworthy, wicked. |
Sinfully | adv | Acting in sinful manner. |
Sinfulness | n | depravity, moral corruption. |
Sing | vb | To make a melodious sound with the voice. 2. make a ringing, whining or whistling sound. 3. to utter a musical inflection or modulation of voice. 4. to celebrate or give praise in song. 5. to lull a child to sleep. 6. to accompany other musicians in singing. 7. to tell or recite something in poetry or verse. 8. cry out, complain. 9. to divulge confidential information or secrets, blab, babble, rat-on (prison slang) |
Sing | phr | "Not Over Till the Fat Lady Sings" - it is not yet finished. |
Sing | phr | "Sing Along" - sing in accompaniment to a song or piece or music. |
Sing | phr | "Sing Out" - call out loudly; shout. 2. to cry or squeal in chastisement. |
Sing | phr | "Sing Small" - to play a humbler part. 2. to cease boasting and assume a quieter tone. |
Sing | phr | "Sing to Sleep" - make a child fall to sleep after singing to them. |
Sing | phr | "Sing Up" - sing more loudly. |
Singalong | n | A tune etc., to which one can sing in accompaniment. 2. an occasion of community singing. |
Singback | n | a musical exercise of notes, where the pupil is instructed to sing back a sequence of notes, previously played or sung. |
Singe | vb | To burn superficially, lightly burn ends or edges of something. 2. to remove hairs from carcases by lightly burning or by being singed. 3. to burn ,fire, cauterize. 4. used to describe the effect produce by extreme cold. |
Singe | phr | "Singe One's Wings" - suffer harm in a risky attempt. |
Singeing | n | A superficial burn. 2. the act of burning slightly. |
Singer | n | One who or that which sings, a vocalist. |
Singer-like | adj | Resembling a singer. |
Singer-songwriter | n | A person who sings and writes songs, especially professionally. |
Singing | n | The act of singing; vocal music; a humming noise in a car, on a telephone, circuit, etc. |
Singing-bird | n | A song bird. |
Singing-bone | n | The funny bone or humerus. |
Singing-book | n | A book containing singing exercises; a song book. |
Singing-dog | n | A wild dog, possibly related to the dingo, native to new Guinea. |
Singingly | adv | Whist singing; accomapanied by the sounds of singing. |
Singing sand | n | Sand that produces sound when walked upon. |
Sing-song | n | An occasion of feasting and musical celebration, esp. in P.N.G and some islands of The Pacific. 2. a ballad, piece of verse, having musical qualities, rather than poetical qualities, esp. one of a monotonous or jingling cadence. 3. a tone of voice marked by a monotonous rise and fall, with a kind of singing effect. 4. an amateur concert of informal nature; a convivial meeting. 5. of persons, a mere jingling rhythm or monotonous verse featuring trivial or simple singing. |
Sing-song | vb | A music piece sung in a monotonous cadence or tone. |
Sing-songy | adj | Like a piece of sing-song, simple and melodic; songlike. |
Singster | n | Singer, songstress. |
Sink | n | A pool or pit formed by a hole in the ground for the collection of waste, water, sewage etc. 2. a cesspool, a container for filth or ordure. 3. a conduit, drain for dirty water, sewage, sewer. 4. a basin for the collection of kitchen liquid waste: a kitchen sink. 5. a plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or a floor and having a drain pipe. 6. a depression in the ground with an underground way. 7. a covered cistern which waste water and sewage flow into. 8. cesspool, cesspit, sump. 9. a trapdoor in a theatre stage for raising or lowering scenery. |
Sink | vb | To fall or descend to a lower place or level. 2. to cause to sink a sea vessel, such as a warship. 3. to pass into a petrified state or condition. 4. to go under water or into some soft substance, such as quicksand or a miasma. 5. to appear to move downwards. 6. to fall or sink heavily; decline markedly, slump, fall off. 7. to be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall or sink from weakness; fail in strength; to decline; decay, decrease. 8. to fall, subside, drop, droop, lower, decline, decay, decrease, lessen. |
Sink | phr | "Be a Sitting Shot" - to be a person whose actions make them very vulnerable to criticism |
Sink | phr | "Be Sunk" - be in a hopeless position. |
Sink | phr | "Everything but the Kitchen Sink" - an unnecessary number of things. |
Sink | phr | "Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship" - the desertion of an organization, team , group, etc when failure seems imminent. |
Sink | phr | "Sink and Draw" - (angling) a method of angling in which the bait or fly is allowed to sink before being gently drawn back to the surface. |
Sink | phr | "Sink Deeper Into the Mire" - get into further difficulties. |
Sink | phr | "Sink In" - penetrate or make its way in. 2. become gradually absorbed, comprehended or understood. 2. invest capital heavily in some venture. |
Sink | phr | "Sinking Sand" - a area of loose, soft, shifting sand into which people or objects may sink and be covered over; quicksand. 2. (fig) a shaking moral foundation to one's life, as the affair with my best friend's wife made me realize what a sinking sand I had lived on. |
Sink | phr | "Sink Into" - fall fast asleep. 2. fall to a lower moral or physical level. |
Sink | phr | "Sink Like a Stone" - sink straight down immediately. |
Sink | phr | "Sink One's Teeth Into" - to be enthusiastically involved about. |
Sink | phr | "Sink Or Swim" - even at the risk of complete failure be determined to try. 2. perish or survive; total failure or thrilling succeeding. |
Sink | phr | "Sink Slowly Into the West" - to fail gradually. |
Sink | phr | "With a Sinking Heart" - to growing despondency. |
Sink bench | n | a surface in a kitchen intended for or equipped with a sink; (now) a kitchen unit comprising a sink and draining board; = sink unit |
Sink boat | n | A type of oblong boat used in wildfowl shooting, which becomes submerged to water level and serves to conceal the hunter. 2. boat sunk in the rim in water; used in duck-shooting; also called a surface boat. |
Sinker | n | A weight used to sink a fishing line or a sounding line; a die-sinker. 2. (slang) a doughnut. |
Sinker | phr | "Fall Hook, Line, and Sinker?" - completely |
Sinkers | n | Roots or climbers of parasitic plants. 2. logs too heavy for floating in the ponds at the docks; also called dead-heads. |
Sinkful | adj | As much as a sink can hold. |
Sink head | n | A reservoir attached to or forming the top of a channel in a mould, used to continuously supply molten metal to a casting as it cools and contracts. |
Sink-hole | n | A hole or hollow, an opening or aa sink drain, for foul matter to run into or be thrown into (Also, fig.) 2. a hole, cavern, cavity, made in the earth by the action of water on soil or underlying ground and frequently forming the course of a river or stream underground. 3. cesspool, miasma. |
Sinking | n | A shallow recess. 2. a part sunk below the surrounding surface. |
Sinking-feeling | n | A bodily sensation, esp. in the abdomen, caused by hunger, dread or apprehension. |
Sinking lid | n | A policy of lowering staff numbers by not replacing workers who resign or retire, typically in public services. |
Sinking speed | n | The rate at which a mine shaft is excavated (now rare); 2. the speed with which a body sinks or is sinking; esp. the rate at which a glider descends. |
Sinking spell | n | A sudden episode of dizziness, palpitations, weakness, etc.; a fainting fit or dizzy spell, a ‘turn’. |
Sinking ship | n | Something which is doomed; an impending debacle; an going disaster, a lost cause. |
Sinkless | adj | Without a sink(of any kind). |
Sinklike | adj | Resembling a sink or some aspect of one. |
Sinkpan | n | A hollow or depression in which waste water collects, a sinkhole |
Sinkroom | n | A scullery: a small room off the kitchen where the messy work is done, such as cleansing dishes and utensils. |
Sinkward | adv | towards a sink. |
Sinkwater | n | The water in a sink. |
Sinless | adj | Without sin or moral wrong; guiltless, innocent, pure. |
Sinlessly | adv | In a sinless way, without sin. |
Sinlessness | n | The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong. 2. lacking a knowledge of evil; free from sin. |
Sinner | n | A person who sins without resisting. 2. one who is habitual, persistent, incorrigible. 3. a transgressor, wrongdoer. |
Sinnership | n | The condition or state of being a sinner or living in sin. |
Sinning | n | The act of committing a sin. |
Sin-ridden | adj | Dominated or plagued by sin. |
Sinsick | adj | Distressed by one's own wrongdoings. 2. suffering in the mind from the effects of sin. 3. sin-soiled, blemished or soiled by sin. |
Sinsyne | adv | Since then, from the time, since syne. |
Sipe | n | A groove or channel in the tread of a tyre to improve its grip. |
Sipe | vb | Of liquids, water, to percolate or ooze through. 2. to drip or trickle slowly, to soak, sieve. |
Sissy | n | An effeminate or cowardly person. |
Sissy | adj | Effeminate, cowardly. |
Sister | n | A female person who has the same parents, mother and father, as another person. 2. a nun, as sister of a religious order. 3. a female person who a member of a sorority, labor union, or other group. 4. a slang term for an attractive young woman. 5. daughters of the same parents are full or whole sisters. those who have only one parent in common are called half-sisters. |
Sister | adj | Bearing the relationship of a sister or one suggestion of sisterhood. |
Sister | phr | "All (Are) Sisters Under the Skin" - sharing fundamental qualities and only differing superficially. |
Sister | phr | "The Three Sisters" - the fates who shaped the destiny of men, Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis. |
Sisterdom | n | Sisterhood; the quality of being a sister. |
Sisterhood | n | The state of being a sister. 2. a society or association of women, esp. when bound by monastic vows or devoting themselves to religious or charitable work or the feminist cause. . 3. the relationship between sisters. 4. a community of women living together for religious or charitable purposes. 5. a community of feeling and mutual support between women. |
Sister-hook | n | A safety clip-hoop, consisting of a pair of hooks moving and fitting close together from the same pivot; a clove hoook. |
Sistering | n | (obsolete) contiguous. |
Sister-in-law | n | A sister of one's wife or husband. 2. the wife of one's brother. 3. the wife of one's brother-in-law. |
Sisterless | adj | Having no sister. |
Sisterlike | adj | Like a sister. 2. becoming or befitting a sister a sister; affectionate. |
Sisterliness | n | The property of being a sister. |
Sisterly love | n | The fem variant of brotherly love. 2. agape (synonym). 3. a kindly and lenient attitude towards others. |
Sisterly | adv | Characteristic of or appropriate for a sister or sisters. 2. sisterly affection. |
Sistership | n | A kinship relationship between a female off-spring and the siblings. 2. an association, society or sorority of women who are linked together by a common purpose, trade or interest. |
Sister soul | n | Kindred spirit, a female one, soul mate. 2. confidante, fellow-believer, compadre. |
Sister tongue | n | A cognate language or languages. |
Sister-wife | n | A woman who is simultaneously a sister and wife to her husband. 2. in a polygamous marriage; a woman who is the sister and co-wife of another. 3. a co-wife in general. |
Sit | n | A sit or bedsit : a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodation (and some plumbing.) 2. the way clothing fits on a person's body. |
Sit | vb | To be seated or take a seat; to remain in a seated or settled position. 2. to rest on the haunches or the trunk of the body. 3. to be in session, as in a court. 4. to take a position for artistic purposes. 5. sit and travel on the back of an animal. 6. to be situated or located somewhere. 7. to look after a baby for its parents; that is: babysit. 8. show to a seat, as a usher. 9. to service in a professional capacity, sit on a board. 10. to rest, abide, remain in a position. 11. to lie, rest, remain, stay; to remain passive or inactive, or in a position of idleness or rest. 12. to befit, fit, for a jacket or coat. 13. to cover or warm eggs for hatching. 14. to occupy a place, as a member of a body, such as a committee |
Sit | phr | "Sit at" -- to be subject to. |
Sit | vb | "Sit At Meat' - to be at the table for eating. |
Sit | phr | "Sit At the Feet Of" - go to learn from some real, or would-be, authority. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Back" - after strenuous activity, relax one's efforts. 2. do nothing when action is needed. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Bolt Upright" - be sitting, or sit up suddenly, with one's back very straight. ( as a conventionally formal posture or because one is surprised). |
Sit | phr | 'Sit By" - look on without interfering. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Down" - sit down after standing; take a seat, settle down. 2. cause to sit. 3. submit (tamely) to an insult, etc. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Down Under" - endure, suffer something without protest or resistance. 2. to sit tamely to; to put up with. |
Sit | phr | "Sit For" - to represent in parliament. 2. take an exam. 3. to pose as an artist or have one's photograph taken. |
Sit | phr | "Sit In" - to join or become involved in a game, activity, business venture or deal. 2. to join a passive demonstration and sit in protest against a perceived wrong. |
Sit | phr | "Sit In For" - |
Sit | phr | "Sit In On It" |
Sit | phr | "Sit On " - to hold an official inquiry about; serve as a member of a board. |
Sit | phr | "Sit On (Somebody)" 2. neglect, suppress a complaint; repress a person. 3. to snub, repress, rebuke; deliberately do nothing about something for somebody. 4. handle firmly someone who misbehaves impertinently; put somebody in their place. |
Sit | phr | "Sit On One's Hands" - deliberately take no action. 2. refuse to applaud or clap. |
Sit | phr | "Sit on the Sidelines" - observe something without taking part in it. 2. not take part in the main action. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Out" - leave the dance floor, and sit down with one's partner. 2. stay or wait till the end (of an ordeal, unpleasant situation etc). 3. stay in one's seat until a performance is over (even though you may find it unpleasant). 4. sit outdoors. 5. outstay (other visitors). |
Sit | phr | "Sit Pretty" - to be in a favorable position. 2. be comfortably off. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Still" - |
Sit | phr | "Sit Through" - remain a theatre etc till the end of a performance (even though one may dislike it). |
Sit | phr | "Sit Under" - to sit regularly to the preaching of. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Up" - rise from a sitting or lying position. 2. sit firmly upright; straighten one's back. 3. move into an upright position, in a tense, alert way, usually from fear or surprise. 4. go to bed later than the usual time. 5. wait(not go to bed) until someone comes home. 6. to keep watch (with) during the night. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Well" - have a good seat in riding. |
Sit | phr | "Sit Well On" - suit or fit. |
Sit bone | n | Either of the two ischial tuberosities. |
Sit-by-the-fire | n | A person who prefixes to stay at home rather than go out and socialize. 2. a homebody. |
Sitch | n | A sike, stream, beck, burn, bourn, watercourse, waterway. |
Sit-down | n | A period of sitting. 2. a place where some activity takes place, as a sit-down protest where demonstrators occupy their workplace or sit down in a public place. |
Sit-down | adj | A meal eaten at a table. |
Sit down strike | n | A form of strike in which the strikers refuse to leave their place of work, day and night. |
Sitfast | adj | Fixed; stationary. |
Sith | adv | Then, thereupon, afterwards, subsequently. 2. next in succession, order or place. 3. some or anytime since, ago. 4. "sith ago", long ago, before now. 5. continuously or ever from, during the period, at some time or any time. 6. since a specified time. 6. from subsequent, to, or since the time that, during. |
Sithe | n | A going, journey, path, way. 2. fortune on a journey: also generally: fortune, hap, luck. 3. with cardinal numbers or equivalent term, denoting frequency of occurrence, as in oftsithe; on or in one sithe; one in the same sithe: at one and the same time. 4. used to express multiplication of times, esp so many times ten or twenty; bysithes. 5. used to express comparison. |
Sithe | vb | To go, journey, travel, voyage. |
Sithence | adv | Since |
Sithre | adv | At a later time, subsequently. |
Sit-in | n | A passive demonstration in which participants gather in government offices, a movie theater and various other places in order to protest against a perceived wrong or a social injustice. |
Sitter | n | One who sits. 2. a persons who minds other people's children, home or pets etc. 3. a person sitting as a model. |
Sitting | n | The state of resting on a seat. 2. the act of placing oneself on a seat. 3. a session, a business meeting. 4. each occasion where food is served to a group of persons. 4. a continuous space in time devoted to a specific piece of work. 5. a time given up for a posing of an aartist. 6. a clutch of eggs for incubation. |
Sitting | adj | Having sat down. 2. of an animal or bird not running or flying; perching. 3. resting on one's haunches. 4. of a hen engaged in hatching. 5. of a current member of parliament. |
Sitting duck | n | A duck resting on water and therefore an easy target for a hunter. 2. an easy target; a vulnerable person or thing. |
Sitting-room | n | A room in a house for relaxed sitting in. 2. space enough to accommodate seated persons. 3. a waiting room; receptionist room. |
Sit-up | vb | To rise from a recumbent position or from sleep. 2. to sit with the body upright. 3. to sit with, and esp. late or through out the night with a sick or dying person. |
Sit-upon | n | To belong to a jury, commission, etc. as a member. 2. to hold discussions about and look into carefully, as in a court case. 3. to suppress, hold onto, lock down or quash a matter, controversy, scandal, or secret. 4. the buttocks. |
Sive | n | Siftings, bran, meal. |
Sivedy | adj | Full of bran, siftings, grains. |
Six | n | A cardinal number following five and preceding seven. 2. anything made up of six units or members. |
Six | adj | Being one more than five; twice three. |
Six | phr | "At Six and Sevens" - all mixed up, without order and organization. 2. in confusion, concerned, undecided and indisagreement. |
Six | phr | "Knock for Six" - utterly overcome, defeat or surprise. |
Six | phr | "Six Feet Under" - dead and buried. |
Six | phr | "Six of the Best" - a punishment (once a time in schools)by canning or strapping. |
Six | phr | "Six Ways from/till Sunday" - used in this manner, the phrase refers to covering the topic from multiple viewpoints, in every way possible. Alternatively, using the idiom in a statement such as "the crowd dispersed six ways to Sunday" means the crowd disperse in all directions. |
Six | phr | "Throw InOne's Six Pennies' Worth" - to modestly put forward one's one facts or views. |
Sixes-and-Sevens | n | A particular type of crate used in the pottery trade. |
Six-fold | adj | Six times as much or many. |
Sixfoldness | n | The state or condition of being sixfold. |
Six-foot way | n | The strip of ground between two sets of railway lines. |
Sixish | adj | About or around six in number. |
Sixpence | n | The sum of sixpence, before decimalization. |
Sixpence | phr | "On a Sixpence" - within a small area or distance. 2. quickly and with ease. |
Six-score | n | One-hundred and twenty. |
Six shooter | n | A revolver that will fire six shots without reloading. |
Six-sided | adj | Having six-sides; a hexagon. |
Sixsome | n | As one of six, with five others |
Sixth | adj | Next in order after the fifth; one of six equal parts. |
Sixthly | adv | In sixth place; six in a row. |
Sixtieth | adj | Tenth in order after fiftieth, the ordinal of sixty. 2. being one of sixty equal parts. 3. the quotient of a unity divided by sixty. |
Sixty | n | The cardinal number following fifty-nine and preceding sixty-one. |
Sixty | adj | Being one more than fifty-nine and ten-times six. |
Sixtyish | adj | Of about sixty years of age. |
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