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lunge
(mass) | lunge
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lunge
(encz) | lunge,skočit v: Zdeněk Brož |
lunge
(encz) | lunge,skok n: Zdeněk Brož |
Lunge
(gcide) | Lunge \Lunge\, n. [Also spelt longe, fr. allonge. See Allonge,
Long.]
A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
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Lunge
(gcide) | Lunge \Lunge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lunged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lunging.]
To make a lunge.
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Lunge
(gcide) | Lunge \Lunge\, v. t.
To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his
halter. --Thackeray.
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Lunge
(gcide) | Lunge \Lunge\, n. (Zool.)
Same as Namaycush.
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lunge
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n 1: the act of moving forward suddenly [syn: lurch, lunge]
2: (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and
the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched
forward [syn: lunge, straight thrust, passado]
v 1: make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl,
hurtle, thrust] |
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lungen
(encz) | lungen, n: |
lunger
(encz) | lunger, n: |
muskellunge
(encz) | muskellunge,druh velké štiky Zdeněk Brož |
nibelungenlied
(encz) | Nibelungenlied, |
plunge
(encz) | plunge,pád n: Pavel Machek; Gizaplunge,strčit v: rychle plunge,vrazit v: rychle |
plunge down
(encz) | plunge down,vnořit v: web |
plunge in
(encz) | plunge in,vnořit v: web |
plunge into
(encz) | plunge into,vnořit v: web |
plunged
(encz) | plunged,vrhnul se v: Jaroslav Šedivý |
plunger
(encz) | plunger,píst n: [tech.] např. pracovní píst elektromagnetu Sukyplunger,razník n: Zdeněk Brožplunger,spekulátor n: Zdeněk Brožplunger,zvon n: na čištění ucpaného odpadu Marek Běl |
plunges
(encz) | plunges,klesá v: Zdeněk Brožplunges,padá v: Zdeněk Brožplunges,vrhá se v: Zdeněk Brož |
Blunge
(gcide) | Blunge \Blunge\, v. t.
To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.
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Blunger
(gcide) | Blunger \Blun"ger\, n. [Corrupted from plunger.]
A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi?ing the clay
in potteries; a plunger. --Tomlinson.
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Emplunge
(gcide) | Emplunge \Em*plunge"\, v. t. [Cf. Implunge.]
To plunge; to implunge. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Implunge
(gcide) | Implunge \Im*plunge"\, v. t.
To plunge. --Fuller.
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Lunge
(gcide) | Lunge \Lunge\, n. [Also spelt longe, fr. allonge. See Allonge,
Long.]
A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
[1913 Webster]Lunge \Lunge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lunged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lunging.]
To make a lunge.
[1913 Webster]Lunge \Lunge\, v. t.
To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his
halter. --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]Lunge \Lunge\, n. (Zool.)
Same as Namaycush.
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Lunged
(gcide) | Lunge \Lunge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lunged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lunging.]
To make a lunge.
[1913 Webster]Lunged \Lunged\ (l[u^]ngd), a.
Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.
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lunger
(gcide) | lunger \lunger\ (l[u^]ng"[~e]r), n.
a person with pulmonary tuberculosis. [informal]
Syn: consumptive.
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Melungeon
(gcide) | Melungeon \Me*lun"geon\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]langer to mix,
m['e]lange a mixture.]
One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of
Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early
intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North
Carolina the
Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost
colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now
legally recognized as distinct.
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Muskellunge
(gcide) | Muskellunge \Mus"kel*lunge\, n. [From the Amer. Indian name.]
(Zool.)
A large American pike (Esox masquinongy formerly {Esox
nobilior}) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern
lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food
fish. [Written also maskallonge, maskalonge,
maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and
muskelunjeh.]
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Nibelungenlied
(gcide) | Nibelungenlied \Ni"be*lung`en*lied`\, n. [G. See Nibelungs;
Lied.]
A great medieval German epic of unknown authorship containing
traditions which refer to the Burgundians at the time of
Attila (called Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements
pointing to heathen times.
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Plunge
(gcide) | Plunge \Plunge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plunged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plunging.] [OE. ploungen, OF. plongier, F. plonger, fr.
(assumed) LL. plumbicare, fr. L. plumbum lead. See Plumb.]
1. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is
penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter
quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body
into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used
figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. "To plunge
the boy in pleasing sleep." --Dryden.
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Bound and plunged him into a cell. --Tennyson.
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We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I.
Watts.
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2. To baptize by immersion.
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3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.]
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Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.
--Sir T.
Browne.
[1913 Webster]Plunge \Plunge\, n.
1. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap,
rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the
water with a plunge.
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2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being
submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. [R.]
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She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her
husband's murder or accuse her son. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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And with thou not reach out a friendly arm,
To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows?
--Addison.
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3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or
violently forward, like an unruly horse.
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4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous
speculation. [Cant]
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Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath
in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
Plunge battery, or plunging battery (Elec.), a voltaic
battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into,
or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
[1913 Webster]Plunge \Plunge\, v. i.
1. To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to
submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he
plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to
plunge into debt.
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Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea. --Dryden.
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To plunge into guilt of a murther. --Tillotson.
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2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently
forward, as a horse does.
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Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.
--Bp. Hall.
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3. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or
other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in
hazardous speculations. [Cant]
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Plunging fire (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an
elevated position.
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Plunge bath
(gcide) | Plunge \Plunge\, n.
1. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap,
rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the
water with a plunge.
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2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being
submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. [R.]
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She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her
husband's murder or accuse her son. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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And with thou not reach out a friendly arm,
To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows?
--Addison.
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3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or
violently forward, like an unruly horse.
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4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous
speculation. [Cant]
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Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath
in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
Plunge battery, or plunging battery (Elec.), a voltaic
battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into,
or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
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Plunge battery
(gcide) | Plunge \Plunge\, n.
1. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap,
rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the
water with a plunge.
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2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being
submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. [R.]
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She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her
husband's murder or accuse her son. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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And with thou not reach out a friendly arm,
To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows?
--Addison.
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3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or
violently forward, like an unruly horse.
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4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous
speculation. [Cant]
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Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath
in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
Plunge battery, or plunging battery (Elec.), a voltaic
battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into,
or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
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Plunged
(gcide) | Plunge \Plunge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plunged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plunging.] [OE. ploungen, OF. plongier, F. plonger, fr.
(assumed) LL. plumbicare, fr. L. plumbum lead. See Plumb.]
1. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is
penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter
quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body
into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used
figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. "To plunge
the boy in pleasing sleep." --Dryden.
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Bound and plunged him into a cell. --Tennyson.
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We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I.
Watts.
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2. To baptize by immersion.
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3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.]
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Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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Plunger
(gcide) | Plunger \Plun"ger\, n.
1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
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2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or
bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
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3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless
speculator. [Cant]
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4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a
creamy consistence. --Knight.
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5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
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Plunger bucket, a piston, without a valve, in a pump.
Plunger pole, the pump rod of a pumping engine.
Plunger pump, a pump, as for water, having a plunger,
instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be
single-acting or double-acting
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Plunger bucket
(gcide) | Plunger \Plun"ger\, n.
1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
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2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or
bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
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3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless
speculator. [Cant]
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4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a
creamy consistence. --Knight.
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5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
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Plunger bucket, a piston, without a valve, in a pump.
Plunger pole, the pump rod of a pumping engine.
Plunger pump, a pump, as for water, having a plunger,
instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be
single-acting or double-acting
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Plunger pole
(gcide) | Plunger \Plun"ger\, n.
1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
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2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or
bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
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3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless
speculator. [Cant]
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4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a
creamy consistence. --Knight.
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5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
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Plunger bucket, a piston, without a valve, in a pump.
Plunger pole, the pump rod of a pumping engine.
Plunger pump, a pump, as for water, having a plunger,
instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be
single-acting or double-acting
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Plunger pump
(gcide) | Plunger \Plun"ger\, n.
1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
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2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or
bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
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3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless
speculator. [Cant]
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4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a
creamy consistence. --Knight.
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5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
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Plunger bucket, a piston, without a valve, in a pump.
Plunger pole, the pump rod of a pumping engine.
Plunger pump, a pump, as for water, having a plunger,
instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be
single-acting or double-acting
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Silver lunge
(gcide) | Silver \Sil"ver\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver
leaf; a silver cup.
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2. Resembling silver. Specifically:
(a) Bright; resplendent; white. "Silver hair." --Shak.
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Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed
Their downy breast. --Milton.
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(b) Precious; costly.
(c) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear. "Silver
voices." --Spenser.
(d) Sweet; gentle; peaceful. "Silver slumber." --Spenser.
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American silver fir (Bot.), the balsam fir. See under
Balsam.
Silver age (Roman Lit.), the latter part (a. d. 14-180) of
the classical period of Latinity, -- the time of writers
of inferior purity of language, as compared with those of
the previous golden age, so-called.
Silver-bell tree (Bot.), an American shrub or small tree
(Halesia tetraptera) with white bell-shaped flowers in
clusters or racemes; the snowdrop tree.
Silver bush (Bot.), a shrubby leguminous plant ({Anthyllis
Barba-Jovis}) of Southern Europe, having silvery foliage.
Silver chub (Zool.), the fallfish.
Silver eel. (Zool.)
(a) The cutlass fish.
(b) A pale variety of the common eel.
Silver fir (Bot.), a coniferous tree (Abies pectinata)
found in mountainous districts in the middle and south of
Europe, where it often grows to the height of 100 or 150
feet. It yields Burgundy pitch and Strasburg turpentine.
Silver foil, foil made of silver.
Silver fox (Zool.), a variety of the common fox ({Vulpes
vulpes}, variety argenteus) found in the northern parts of
Asia, Europe, and America. Its fur is nearly black, with
silvery tips, and is highly valued. Called also {black
fox}, and silver-gray fox.
Silver gar. (Zool.) See Billfish
(a) .
Silver grain (Bot.), the lines or narrow plates of cellular
tissue which pass from the pith to the bark of an
exogenous stem; the medullary rays. In the wood of the oak
they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple,
pine, cherry, etc.
Silver grebe (Zool.), the red-throated diver. See Illust.
under Diver.
Silver hake (Zool.), the American whiting.
Silver leaf, leaves or sheets made of silver beaten very
thin.
Silver lunge (Zool.), the namaycush.
Silver moonfish.(Zool.) See Moonfish
(b) .
Silver moth (Zool.), a lepisma.
Silver owl (Zool.), the barn owl.
Silver perch (Zool.), the mademoiselle, 2.
Silver pheasant (Zool.), any one of several species of
beautiful crested and long-tailed Asiatic pheasants, of
the genus Euplocamus. They have the tail and more or
less of the upper parts silvery white. The most common
species (Euplocamus nychtemerus) is native of China.
Silver plate,
(a) domestic utensils made of a base metal coated with
silver.
(b) a plating of silver on a base metal.
Silver plover (Zool.), the knot.
Silver salmon (Zool.), a salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
native of both coasts of the North Pacific. It ascends all
the American rivers as far south as the Sacramento. Called
also kisutch, whitefish, and white salmon.
Silver shell (Zool.), a marine bivalve of the genus Anomia.
See Anomia.
Silver steel, an alloy of steel with a very small
proportion of silver.
Silver stick, a title given to the title field officer of
the Life Guards when on duty at the palace. [Eng.]
--Thackeray.
Silver tree (Bot.), a South African tree ({Leucadendron
argenteum}) with long, silvery, silky leaves.
Silver trout, (Zool.) See Trout.
Silver wedding. See under Wedding.
Silver whiting (Zool.), a marine sciaenoid food fish
(Menticirrus littoralis) native of the Southern United
States; -- called also surf whiting.
Silver witch (Zool.), A lepisma.
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lungen
(wn) | lungen
n 1: tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for
its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes
placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium [syn: longan,
lungen, longanberry, Dimocarpus longan, {Euphorbia
litchi}, Nephelium longana] |
lunger
(wn) | lunger
n 1: someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing)
2: a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive,
lunger, tubercular] |
muskellunge
(wn) | muskellunge
n 1: flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish
2: large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America [syn:
muskellunge, Esox masquinongy] |
nibelungenlied
(wn) | Nibelungenlied
n 1: an epic poem written in Middle High German and based on the
legends of Siegfried and Teutonic kings |
plunge
(wn) | plunge
n 1: a brief swim in water [syn: dip, plunge]
2: a steep and rapid fall
v 1: thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in hot water" [syn:
immerse, plunge]
2: drop steeply; "the stock market plunged" [syn: dive,
plunge, plunk]
3: dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity; "She
plunged at it eagerly"
4: begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She
plunged into a dangerous adventure" [syn: plunge, launch]
5: cause to be immersed; "The professor plunged his students
into the study of the Italian text" [syn: plunge,
immerse]
6: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn:
plunge, dump]
7: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or
saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip
the brush into the paint" [syn: dunk, dip, souse,
plunge, douse]
8: devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his
studies" [syn: steep, immerse, engulf, plunge,
engross, absorb, soak up] |
plunger
(wn) | plunger
n 1: someone who risks losses for the possibility of
considerable gains [syn: speculator, plunger]
2: someone who dives (into water) [syn: diver, plunger]
3: hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at
one end; used to clean clogged drains [syn: plunger,
plumber's helper]
4: mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
[syn: piston, plunger] |
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