(uncountable) The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means; espionage.
A scout or spy.
An act of finding out or observing by spying or looking; an espial or espying.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To observe as a spy, to spy; also, to examine or observe carefully; or to look out or watch.
To become aware of (a fact, information, etc.).
To find out or observe (someone or something, especially if not easy to see) by spying or looking; to catch sight of; to see; to spot.
To observe (someone or something) as a spy; also, to examine or observe (someone or something) carefully; or to look out or watch for.
To see (someone or something) without foreplanning or unexpectedly.
expy
expy
noun
(fandom slang) A character in a work of fiction who is a stand-in for or knockoff of a character from an unrelated work or of a real person.
Contraction of expressway.
gype
gype
noun
(Ulster) fool; clumsy, awkward person
(Ulster) long-legged person
(Ulster) silly boy
hype
hype
adj
(informal) Hyped (“excited”).
(slang) Excellent, cool.
noun
(marketing) Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.
(metonymically, slang, dated) A drug addict.
(slang) Short for hypodermic needle.
Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)
verb
(transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.
paye
pewy
prey
prey
noun
(archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war
(archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
A person or thing given up as a victim.
That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured
The victim of a disease.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a predator.
pyes
pyes
noun
plural of pye
pyke
pyke
noun
Obsolete form of pike.
verb
Obsolete form of peek.
Obsolete form of pick.
pyle
pyne
pyne
noun
Obsolete form of pine.
pyre
pyre
noun
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
Any heap or pile of combustibles.
rype
rype
adj
Obsolete spelling of ripe
noun
A bird, the ptarmigan.
spey
spey
verb
(nonstandard) Alternative form of spay
type
type
noun
(chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
(chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
(corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
(mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
(medicine) A blood group.
(obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
(taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
(uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
verb
To categorize into types.
To determine the blood type of.
To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
To put text on paper using a typewriter.
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
wype
wype
noun
(UK, dialect) The wipe, or lapwing.
yelp
yelp
noun
A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.