Compressor (n.) Anything which serves to compress |
Compressor (n.) A muscle that compresses certain parts. |
Compressor (n.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part. |
Compressor (n.) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope |
Compressor (n.) A machine for compressing gases |
Cramp (n.) That which confines or contracts |
Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc. |
Cramp (n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc. |
Cramp (n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape. |
Cramp (n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg. |
Cramp (v. t.) To compress |
Cramp (v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp. |
Cramp (v. t.) to bind together |
Cramp (v. t.) To form on a cramp |
Cramp (v. t.) To afflict with cramp. |
Cramp (n.) Knotty |
Cramp iron () See Cramp, n., 2. |
Spring (v. i.) To leap |
Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence |
Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
Spring (v. i.) To fly back |
Spring (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface |
Spring (v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth |
Spring (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor |
Spring (v. i.) To grow |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to spring up |
Spring (v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to explode |
Spring (v. t.) To crack or split |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring |
Spring (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong |
Spring (v. t.) To pass over by leaping |
Spring (v. i.) A leap |
Spring (v. i.) A flying back |
Spring (v. i.) Elastic power or force. |
Spring (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. |
Spring (v. i.) Any source of supply |
Spring (v. i.) Any active power |
Spring (v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source |
Spring (v. i.) A race |
Spring (v. i.) A youth |
Spring (v. i.) A shoot |
Spring (v. i.) That which causes one to spring |
Spring (v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow |
Spring (v. i.) The time of growth and progress |
Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. |
Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position |
Vice (n.) A defect |
Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing |
Vice (n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself |
leap leaping spring saltation bound bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
vice-presidency | the office and function of a vice president |
vice | a specific form of evildoing, vice offends the moral standards of the community |
vice crime | a vice that is illegal |
spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
leopard frog spring frog Rana pipiens | common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
green frog spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
spring peeper Hyla crucifer | a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring |
spring chicken | a young chicken having tender meat |
spring cankerworm | variably colored looper, larva of Paleacrita vernata |
air compressor | a compressor that takes in air at atmospheric pressure and delivers it at a higher pressure |
air cushion air spring | a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion |
box spring | a coiled bedspring in a frame that is covered with cloth |
coil spring volute spring | a spring in the shape of a coil |
compressor | a mechanical device that compresses gasses |
cramp cramp iron | a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles, used to hold masonry together |
cramp | a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued |
leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |
set gun spring gun | a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off |
spiral spring | a spring that is wound like a spiral |
spring | a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed, the spring was broken |
spring balance spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
spring mattress | a mattress containing springs in a rigid frame |
frailty vice | moral weakness |
give spring springiness | the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length |
green onion spring onion scallion | a young onion before the bulb has enlarged, eaten in salads |
egg roll spring roll | minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried |
spring water | water from a spring |
vice squad | a police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitution |
spring | a point at which water issues forth |
hot spring thermal spring | a natural spring of water at a temperature ofF or above |
spring fountain outflow outpouring natural spring | a natural flow of ground water |
executive vice president | a vice president holding executive power |
senior vice president | the ranking vice president in a firm that has more than one |
vice admiral | an admiral ranking below a full admiral and above a rear admiral |
vice chairman | one ranking below or serving in the place of a chairman |
vice chancellor | a deputy or assistant to someone bearing the title of chancellor |
vice president V.P. | an executive officer ranking immediately below a president, may serve in the president's place under certain circumstances |
Vice President of the United States | the vice president of the United States who presides over the United States Senate |
young person youth younker spring chicken | a young person (especially a young man or boy) |
Carolina spring beauty Claytonia caroliniana | similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers, eastern North America |
spring beauty Clatonia lanceolata | small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm |
Virginia spring beauty Claytonia virginica | small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, eastern North America |
spring cress Cardamine bulbosa | small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America |
winter heath spring heath Erica carnea | dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
spring squill Scilla verna sea onion | European scilla with small blue or purple flowers |
spring vetchling spring vetch Lathyrus vernus | bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers |
spring vetch Vicia sativa | herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building |
cleavers clivers goose grass catchweed spring cleavers Galium aparine | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles, North America and Europe and Asia |
footsteps-of-spring Sanicula arctopoides | sanicle of northwestern United States and British Columbia having yellow flowers |