HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
2. The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.

noun

1. (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
2. (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

verb

1. (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
2. (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
3. (chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
4. A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
5. Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

verb

1. (Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
2. (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.

noun

1. plural of blackfish

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. Someone who breaks a promise or violates a treaty.

noun

1. Any fish of the family Notopteridae.

noun

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
2. (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
3. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
4. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
5. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.

verb

1. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

noun

1. plural of flashback

noun

1. (American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.
2. (Australian rules football) One of three players (the centre halfback and two halfback flankers) on the line between the centre line and the fullback line.
3. (Canadian football) A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
4. (field hockey) A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.
5. (field sports) Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
6. (rugby) The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.

verb

1. To play in the position of halfback.

noun

1. plural of halfback

noun

1. (zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.

noun

1. plural of halfbeak