Ceramics
(n.) The art of making things of baked clay |
Ceramics
(n.) Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked |
Finger
(n.) One of the five terminating members of the hand |
Finger
(n.) Anything that does work of a finger |
Finger
(n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand |
Finger
(n.) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument. |
Finger
(v. t.) To touch with the fingers |
Finger
(v. t.) To touch lightly |
Finger
(v. t.) To perform on an instrument of music. |
Finger
(v. t.) To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing. |
Finger
(v. t.) To take thievishly |
Finger
(v. t.) To execute, as any delicate work. |
Finger
(v. i.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument. |
Five-finger
(n.) See Cinquefoil. |
Five-finger
(n.) A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens. |
Lady's finger
() The kidney vetch. |
Lady's finger
() A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger. |
Lady's finger
() A long, slender variety of the potato. |
Lady's finger
() One of the branchiae of the lobster. |
Rack
(n.) Same as Arrack. |
Rack
(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. |
Rack
(n.) A wreck |
Rack
(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. |
Rack
(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. |
Rack
(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body |
Rack
(n.) A fast amble. |
Rack
(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. |
Rack
(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. |
Rack
(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated |
Rack
(a.) An instrument for bending a bow. |
Rack
(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid. |
Rack
(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. |
Rack
(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display |
Rack
(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes |
Rack
(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. |
Rack
(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. |
Rack
(a.) A distaff. |
Rack
(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. |
Rack
(a.) That which is extorted |
Rack
(v. t.) To extend by the application of force |
Rack
(v. t.) To torment |
Rack
(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense |
Rack
(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. |
Rack
(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. |
Rack-rent
(n.) A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it |
Rack-rent
(v. t.) To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. |
Rack-renter
(n.) One who is subjected to paying rack-rent. |
Rack-renter
(n.) One who exacts rack-rent. |
-type
(n.) A combining form signifying impressed form |
Type
(n.) The mark or impression of something |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
| rack | a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body |
| finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint |
| ceramics | the art of making and decorating pottery |
| bicycle rack | a rack for parking bicycles |
| bomb rack | a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs |
bones
castanets
clappers
finger cymbals | a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance |
coatrack
coat rack
hatrack | a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
| dish rack | a rack for holding dishes as dishwater drains off of them |
| dress rack | a rack used primarily to display dresses for sale in a store |
| finger | one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb |
| finger bowl | small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table |
| finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
| finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
finger paint
fingerpaint | paint that has the consistency of jelly |
| finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers |
finger plate
escutcheon scutcheon | a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers |
luggage rack
roof rack | carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car |
| magazine rack | a rack for displaying magazines |
music stand
music rack | a light stand for holding sheets of printed music |
| n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
| pipe rack | a rack for holding a smoker's pipes |
| plate rack | a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed |
| p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
| pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
rack
stand | a support for displaying various articles, the newspapers were arranged on a rack |
| rack | framework for holding objects |
| rack wheel | an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims |
| rack and pinion | a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack, converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa) |
| ski rack | a carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle |
| spice rack | a rack for displaying containers filled with spices |
| tie rack | a rack for storing ties |
towel rack
towel horse | a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels can be hung |
| type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug
slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
body type
somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type
ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy
pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type
mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
| finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type
Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type
Rh-negative blood
Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
| finger | any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb), her fingers were long and thin |
index
index finger
forefinger | the finger next to the thumb |