stick to — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
taboo — proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: Taboo language is usually bleeped on TV. Synonyms: prohibited, banned, forbidden, proscribed. Antonyms: allowed, permitted, permissible; sanctioned.
take to — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
tattoo — a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
thank you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
theroux — Paul (Edward). born 1941, US novelist and travel writer. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), The Mosquito Coast (1981), and My Other Life (1996); travel writings include The Great Railway Bazaar (1975)
turn to — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
undo — to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done: Murder once done can never be undone.
babu — (in India) a title or form of address more or less equivalent to Mr, placed before a person's full name or after his first name
baku — the capital of Azerbaijan, a port on the Caspian Sea: important for its extensive oilfields. Pop: 1 830 000 (2005 est)
bamboo — Bamboo is a tall tropical plant with hard, hollow stems. The young shoots of the plant can be eaten and the stems are used to make furniture.
brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
bring to — If you bring someone to when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
canoe — A canoe is a small, narrow boat that you move through the water using a stick with a wide end called a paddle.
cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
cebu — an island in the central Philippines. Pop: 2 091 602 (latest est). Area: 4422 sq km (1707 sq miles)
chengdu — a city in S central China, capital of Sichuan province. Pop: 3 478 000 (2005 est)
come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
come to — When someone who is unconscious comes to, they recover consciousness.
construe — If something is construed in a particular way, its nature or meaning is interpreted in that way.
debut — The debut of a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.
depew — Chauncey Mitchell, 1834–1928, U.S. lawyer, legislator, and orator.
drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
due to — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
edu — (networking) ("education") The top-level domain for educational establishments in the USA (and some other countries). E.g. "mit.edu". The UK equivalent is "ac.uk".
fondue — a saucelike dish of Swiss origin made with melted cheese and seasonings together with dry white wine, usually flavored with kirsch: served as a hot dip for pieces of bread.
get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
get to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
go through — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
go to — functioning properly and ready: two minutes before the satellite is to be launched and all systems are go.
got to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
gym shoe — a lightweight canvas shoe with a rubber sole; sneaker.
isu — (sumo) an individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.
jammu — a city in and the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, in the SW part, in N India.
kazoo — a musical toy consisting of a tube that is open at both ends and has a hole in the side covered with parchment or membrane, which produces a buzzing sound when the performer hums into one end. Also called mirliton.
kung fu — an ancient Chinese method of self-defense by striking blows at vulnerable areas of an attacker's body using fluid movements of the hands and legs.
renew — to begin or take up again, as an acquaintance, a conversation, etc.; resume.
review — a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
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allen screw — a screw that has a hexagonal cross section in the head, designed to be turned using an Allen key
angle of view — the angle that corresponds to the field of view provided by a lens
ballyhoo — You can use ballyhoo to refer to great excitement or anger about something, especially when you disapprove of it because you think it is unnecessary or exaggerated.
book review — a description and analysis of a new book
break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
carry through — If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.
casein glue — a glue made from casein, used for plywood, cabinetwork, etc.
check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
come into — If someone comes into some money, some property, or a title, they inherit it.
come up to — To be coming up to a time or state means to be getting near to it.
cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
deja vu — Déjà vu is the feeling that you have already experienced the things that are happening to you now.
dip into — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
fall into — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
get into — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
go into — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
grow into — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
hitherto — up to this time; until now: a fact hitherto unknown.
irish stew — a stew usually made of mutton, lamb, or beef, with potatoes, onions, etc.
iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
kangaroo — any herbivorous marsupial of the family Macropodidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a small head, short forelimbs, powerful hind legs used for leaping, and a long, thick tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
katmandu — a city in and the capital of Nepal, in the central part.
lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
lay into — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
lemieux — Mario ("Super Mario") born 1965, Canadian hockey player and executive.
live up to — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
look into — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
look up to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
luck into — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
meadow rue — any of several plants belonging to the genus Thalictrum, of the buttercup family, having leaves resembling those of rue, especially T. dioicum, of North America.
misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
royal blue — a deep blue, often with a faint reddish tinge.
run into — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
tae kwon do — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
tear into — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
tennis shoe — a sports shoe with a rubber sole (usually pebbled) and a stitched canvas upper that laces over the instep.
through and through — in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other: to pass through a tunnel; We drove through Denver without stopping. Sun came through the window.
timbuktu — a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River. French Tombouctou.
tried and true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
blue — Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
boo — If you boo a speaker or performer, you shout 'boo' or make other loud sounds to indicate that you do not like them, their opinions, or their performance.
brew — If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee.
c2 — a skilled manual worker, or a manual worker with responsibility for other people
chew — When you chew food, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow.
choo — (onomatopoeia) The sound of a locomotive whistle.
crew — The crew of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft is the people who work on and operate it.
crewe — a town in NW England, in Cheshire: major railway junction. Pop: 67 683 (2001)
cue — In the theatre or in a musical performance, a performer's cue is something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something.
foo — (computing) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
glue — a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
gnu — either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
goo — a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
gue — (Shetland) A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.
hew — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
hewe — (obsolete) A domestic; a servant or retainer.
hoo — (South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire) she.
hu — (neologism) they (singular). non-gloss definition Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns 'he' and 'she'.
hue — a seaport in central Vietnam: former capital of Annam.
hugh — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “heart, mind.”.
jew — one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite.
m2 — A Modula-2 compiler for VAX and MIPS. A Pascal compiler for VAX is also included. The Pascal compiler accepts a language that is almost identical to Berkeley Pascal. It was originally designed and built by Michael L. Powell in 1984. Joel McCormack made it faster, fixed lots of bugs, and swiped/wrote a User's Manual. Len Lattanzi ported it to the MIPS. It has the following extensions: foreign function and data interface, dynamic array variables, subarray parameters, multi-dimensional open array parameters, inline procedures, longfloat type, type-checked interface to C library I/O routines. It runs on VAX (Ultrix, BSD) and MIPS (Ultrix). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
mu — a legendary lost continent supposed to have sunk into the SW Pacific Ocean at about the same time that Atlantis disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean.
new — other than the former or the old: a new era; in the New World.
nu — oldest of the ancient Egyptian gods, personifying the primordial ocean from which the world was formed; father of Ra, the sun god.
roux — a cooked mixture of butter or other fat and flour used to thicken sauces, soups, etc.
ru — (networking) The country code for the Russian Federation.
rue — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
screw — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
shoe — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
shoo — to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”.
shu — the god of the air, sometimes represented with arms upraised, supporting the vault of heaven.
skew — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
through — in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other: to pass through a tunnel; We drove through Denver without stopping. Sun came through the window.
to — (used for expressing motion or direction toward a point, person, place, or thing approached and reached, as opposed to from): They came to the house.
too — in addition; also; furthermore; moreover: young, clever, and rich too.
true — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
xu — A monetary unit of Vietnam, equal to one hundredth of a dong.
yew — any of several evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs of the genera Taxus and Torreya, constituting the family Taxaceae, of the Old World, North America, and Japan, having needlelike or scalelike foliage and seeds enclosed in a fleshy aril.
you — something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed: Don't buy the bright red shirt—it just isn't you. It was like seeing another you.
yu — a legendary Chinese emperor who drained the land and made the mountains.
apple of peru — a plant, Nicandra physalodes, of the nightshade family, having large blue flowers.
depardieu — Gérard. born 1948, French film actor, granted Russian citizenship in 2013. His films include Jean de Florette (1986), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Green Card (1991), The Man in the Iron Mask (1997), and Tais-toi (2003)
hullabaloo — a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.
in regard to — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
methylene blue — a dark-green, crystalline compound, C 1 6 H 1 8 ClN 3 S, that dissolves in water to form a deep-blue solution: used chiefly as a dye, as a bacteriological and biological stain, and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
out of the blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
rat kangaroo — any of several rabbit-sized, ratlike Australian kangaroos of the subfamily Potoroinae.
tree kangaroo — any arboreal kangaroo of the genus Dendrolagus, of Queensland, Australia, and New Guinea.
wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
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balsam of peru — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
in relation to — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.