Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ape
apex
apex
noun
(astronomy) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
(attributive, ecology) The top of the food chain.
(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.
(botany) The growing point of a shoot.
(figuratively) The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
(geometry) The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
(mining, US) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
(physics) The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
A conical priest cap.
A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.
A sharp upward point formed by two strokes that meet at an acute angle, as in "W", uppercase "A", and closed-top "4", or by a tapered stroke, as in lowercase "t".
The deepest part of a tooth's root.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
The lowest part of the human heart.
apse
apse
noun
(architecture) A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
(astronomy, obsolete) Obsolete form of apsis.; The nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit. More usually called an apsis.
(obsolete or dialectal) An aspen tree.
A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
cape
cape
noun
(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
(slang) A superhero.
A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
verb
(US, slang, chiefly with "for") To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
(nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
(obsolete) To look for, search after.
(rare, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.
To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
cepa
depa
earp
ecap
ecpa
epha
epha
noun
(historical units of measure) Alternative spelling of ephah
evap
gape
gape
noun
(uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
(uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
(zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
A large opening.
The width of an opening.
verb
(intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
(intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
(intransitive) To stare in wonder.
(intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
(pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
heap
heap
adv
(possibly offensive) very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans
noun
(colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
(colloquial) A lot, a large amount
(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
(computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
A great number or large quantity of things.
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
verb
(transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
(transitive) To pile in a heap.
(transitive) To supply in great quantity.
jape
jape
noun
A joke or quip.
A prank or trick.
verb
(intransitive) To jest; play tricks.
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
(transitive) To mock; deride.
kape
kape
verb
(obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of keep.
keap
leap
leap
adj
(calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
noun
(figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
(figuratively) A significant move forward.
(mining) A fault.
(music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
A group of leopards.
A salmon ladder.
A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
Half a bushel.
The act of leaping or jumping.
The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
verb
(archaic) To copulate with (a human)
(archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
(intransitive) To jump.
(transitive) To cause to leap.
(transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
lepa
mepa
nape
nape
noun
(military, slang) Napalm.
(obsolete) A tablecloth.
(zoology) The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
The back part of the neck.
verb
(transitive, military, slang) To bombard with napalm.
neap
neap
adj
(of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.
noun
A neap tide.
Alternative form of neep
The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
verb
To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
to ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail
nepa
pace
pace
adj
(cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
noun
(collective) A group of donkeys.
(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
(obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
(obsolete) An aisle in a church.
(obsolete) One's journey or route.
A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
Easter.
Speed or velocity in general.
The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
prep
(formal) With all due respect to.
verb
To measure by walking.
To set the speed in a race.
To walk back and forth in a small distance.
page
page
noun
(Britain) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
(Internet) A web page.
(US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
(figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.
(in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
(obsolete) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
(telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
(typography) The type set up for printing a page.
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
verb
(intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
(transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
(transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
(transitive) To furnish with folios.
(transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
(transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
(transitive, telecommunications, dated) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
pale
pale
adj
(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
Feeble, faint.
Light in color.
noun
(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
(archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
(heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
(historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
(historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
A cheese scoop.
A wooden stake; a picket.
The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
verb
(intransitive) To become insignificant.
(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
(transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
pane
pane
noun
(architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
(computing, graphical user interface) A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.
A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
Alternative spelling of peen
An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
verb
(transitive) To fit with panes.
pape
pape
noun
painted bunting
pare
pare
verb
(Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.
(transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
(transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
To trim the hoof of a horse.
pase
pase
noun
A maneuver in bullfighting in which a bullfighter tries to get a bull's attention by manipulating his cape.
pate
pate
noun
(archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
(somewhat archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.
Alternative spelling of pâté (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
pave
pave
verb
(Britain) To cover something with paving slabs.
(Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
(transitive, figurative) To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth.
paye
peag
peag
noun
Wampum.
peai
peak
peak
adj
(MLE) Bad
(MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate
(slang) Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
At the greatest extent; maximum.
noun
(geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
(geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
(mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
(nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
(nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
(nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
verb
(gender-critical) To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
(intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
(intransitive) To become sick or wan.
(intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
(transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
peal
peal
noun
(collective) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.
verb
(intransitive) To resound; to echo.
(intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals.
(obsolete) To appeal.
(transitive) To assail with noise.
(transitive) To utter or sound loudly.
pean
pean
adj
(heraldry): In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field. with gold spots
noun
(heraldry) A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.
Alternative spelling of paean.
Alternative spelling of peen.
pear
pear
noun
(Jamaica) avocado, alligator pear
A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
Choke pear (a torture device).
The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
peas
peas
noun
plural of pea
peat
peat
noun
(obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
peba
peba
noun
An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.
peda
peda
noun
(India) A sweet made from khoa, sugar, and various flavourings.
plural of pedum
pega
pena
pera
pesa
peta
plea
plea
noun
(law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
(law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
(law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
(law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
An excuse; an apology.
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
verb
(chiefly England regional, Scotland) To plead; to argue.
rape
rape
adv
(obsolete) Quickly; hastily.
noun
(now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
(now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
(now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
(obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.
(obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
(obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
(obsolete) That which is snatched away.
(slang, sometimes offensive) Overpowerment; utter defeat.
A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
verb
(chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other penetrative sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
(obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
(slang, sometimes offensive) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
(transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
(transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
(transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)
reap
reap
noun
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
verb
(transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
(transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
(transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
(transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
(transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
seap
spae
spae
verb
(Scotland) To divine; foretell
tape
tape
noun
(ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
(informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
(informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
(possible, obsolete, UK, slang) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)
(printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
(trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).
Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
verb
(informal, passive) To understand, figure out.
To bind with adhesive tape.
To record, originally onto magnetic tape.
teap
tepa
tepa
noun
A tree native to Chile and Argentina, Laureliopsis philippiana