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verb

1. present participle of acknow

verb

1. (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in
2. (transitive) To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour)
3. (transitive) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.
4. (transitive) To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
5. (transitive) To report (the receipt of a message to its sender).

adj

1. Able to be acknowledged.
2. Worthy of acknowledgement.

adj

1. Generally accepted, recognized or admitted.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of acknowledg
2. simple past tense and past participle of acknowledge

adv

1. Confessedly, admittedly.

noun

1. (most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment

noun

1. plural of acknowledgement

noun

1. One who acknowledges.

noun

1. plural of acknowledger

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acknowledge

adj

1. (obsolete, specifically) Expressing esteem or gratitude.
2. That acknowledges, in various sense; (especially) that notices or recognises someone or something.

noun

1. (archaic) The act of acknowledging something.

verb

1. present participle of acknowledg
2. present participle of acknowledge

noun

1. (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
2. (law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
3. (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
4. A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
5. A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
6. A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
7. An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
8. The act of acknowledging
9. The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.

noun

1. plural of acknowledgment

adj

1. Relating to angiokinesis or to an angiokine

verb

1. present participle of antic

adj

1. (biochemistry) That inhibits the formation of ketones during the metabolism of fats and carbohydrates in the liver

adj

1. Countering racketeering.

noun

1. (rare) A chief king.

adj

1. Carrying out an attack.

verb

1. present participle of attack

adj

1. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

noun

1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.

verb

1. present participle of backbite

adv

1. In a backbiting manner.

noun

1. plural of backbiting

adj

1. (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.

verb

1. present participle of backcheck

noun

1. (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.

verb

1. present participle of backcross

noun

1. The act by which something is backdated.

verb

1. present participle of backdate

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

noun

1. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
2. The occurrence of a backfire.

verb

1. present participle of backfire

verb

1. present participle of backfit

verb

1. present participle of backflip

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

noun

1. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
2. {{lb|en|backgammon}} A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.

verb

1. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

noun

1. plural of backgammon

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon

adj

1. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

noun

1. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
2. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
3. (physics) Clipping of background radiation.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
5. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
6. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
7. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

verb

1. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
2. To put in a position that is not prominent.
3. simple past tense and past participle of backgrind

adj

1. (computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
2. Moved to the background

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of background

noun

1. (chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
2. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
3. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.

noun

1. plural of background

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of background

verb

1. present participle of backhand

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

adj

1. (music) Providing support for the main performer.

noun

1. (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
2. (television, film) A backdrop.
3. A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
4. Support, especially financial.
5. The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
6. The mounting of a horse or other animal.

verb

1. present participle of back

noun

1. plural of backing

verb

1. present participle of backlash

noun

1. The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.

verb

1. present participle of backlight

verb

1. present participle of backlist

noun

1. (transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

verb

1. present participle of backload

verb

1. present participle of backlog

noun

1. hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
2. low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.

verb

1. present participle of backpack

noun

1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.

verb

1. (US) present participle of backpedal

noun

1. (physics) The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

verb

1. present participle of backset

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

adj

1. sliding back

noun

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

verb

1. present participle of backslide

verb

1. present participle of backspace

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

verb

1. present participle of backstitch

verb

1. present participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (aviation) The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
2. (computer science) The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.

verb

1. present participle of backtrack

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

verb

1. present participle of backwind

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The act of cheering for or supporting a team.
2. An act of jeering or heckling.

verb

1. present participle of barrack

verb

1. present participle of bechalk

verb

1. present participle of beck

adj

1. That beckons.

noun

1. Such a wave or similar action.

verb

1. present participle of beckon

adv

1. So as to beckon or call near; enticingly.

verb

1. present participle of becloak

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

verb

1. present participle of befleck

verb

1. present participle of bemock

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

verb

1. present participle of bestick

noun

1. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.

verb

1. present participle of bicker

noun

1. Synonym of billposting

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

noun

1. An instance, or action, of a person being blackballed

verb

1. present participle of blackball

noun

1. (UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

noun

1. (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
2. (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
3. Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion; on steel, generally, synonym of bluing.
4. The act of defaming or sullying.

verb

1. present participle of blacken

noun

1. plural of blackening

noun

1. (slang, of a non-black person) The practice of appropriating signifiers of black identity, such as darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles.

verb

1. present participle of blackfish

noun

1. A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
3. Shoe polish.

verb

1. present participle of black

noun

1. plural of blacking

verb

1. present participle of blackjack

noun

1. The practice of working in place of those who are engaged in a strike.

verb

1. present participle of blackleg

noun

1. The act of placing onto a blacklist.

verb

1. present participle of blacklist

noun

1. The act of one who blackmails.

verb

1. present participle of blackmail

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

verb

1. present participle of blockade

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

noun

1. (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
2. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
3. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
4. The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).

verb

1. present participle of block

noun

1. The manufacture of blocks for use in printing.
2. The manufacture of nautical blocks.

adj

1. (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
2. (of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. A coarse woollen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.

verb

1. present participle of bodycheck

noun

1. servile behaviour

verb

1. present participle of bootlick

noun

1. (architecture) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
2. The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.

verb

1. present participle of bracket

Proper noun

1. A town in Colorado, USA
2. an unincorporated community in Indiana, in the United States
3. A village/town in Michigan, US.
4. A city and county seat in Minnesota, US.
5. A city/town in Missouri, US.
6. A town in Oklahoma, US.
7. A city in Texas, USA

noun

1. The act of assailing with criticism.
2. The act of attacking by throwing brickbats.

verb

1. present participle of brickbat

noun

1. The act of pelting with bricks.

verb

1. present participle of brick

noun

1. The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.

noun

1. plural of bricklaying

noun

1. The manufacture of bricks.

noun

1. A heavy pouring down of liquid; a deluge.
2. Synonym of binning (“data pre-processing technique”)
3. The act of moving material using a bucket.

verb

1. present participle of bucket

noun

1. The manufacture of buckets.

noun

1. (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
2. The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
3. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
4. The liquid used in this process.
5. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

verb

1. present participle of buck

Proper noun

1. A place name:
   1. A town in Buckinghamshire, England.
   2. A former city in Quebec, Canada, merged into Gatineau in 2002.
   3. An unincorporated community in Colorado, USA, named after a railroad official.
   4. A census-designated place in Florida, USA.
   5. A village in Illinois, USA.
   6. An unincorporated community in Iowa, USA, named after Buckingham County, VA.
   7. A former city in Texas, USA, now part of Richardson, Texas.
   8. A census-designated place and county seat of Buckingham County in Virginia, USA.
2. A dukedom in the English peerage.
3. An English habitational surname derived from the place name.

Proper noun

1. An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

verb

1. present participle of buckler

adj

1. Wavy; curly, as hair.

noun

1. (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
2. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
3. Smoked herring.
4. The act of fastening a buckle.
5. The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.

verb

1. present participle of buckle

verb

1. present participle of buckram

noun

1. (South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
2. (US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.

noun

1. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

noun

1. The art of the cabinetmaker