Chimney-piece
(n.) A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. |
Media
(n.) pl. of Medium. |
Media
(n.) One of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute. |
Media
(pl. ) of Medium |
News
(n) A report of recent occurences |
News
(n) Something strange or newly happened. |
News
(n) A bearer of news |
News-book
(n.) A newspaper. |
News-letter
(n.) A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers. |
News-vnder
(n.) A seller of newspapers. |
News-writer
(n.) One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. |
Over-story
(n.) The clearstory, or upper story, of a building. |
Piece
(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing |
Piece
(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work |
Piece
(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind |
Piece
(n.) A literary or artistic composition |
Piece
(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon |
Piece
(n.) A coin |
Piece
(n.) A fact |
Piece
(n.) An individual |
Piece
(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. |
Piece
(n.) A castle |
Piece
(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces |
Piece
(v. t.) To unite |
Piece
(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts |
Scoop
(n.) A large ladle |
Scoop
(n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything |
Scoop
(n.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. |
Scoop
(n.) A place hollowed out |
Scoop
(n.) A sweep |
Scoop
(n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle |
Scoop
(n.) To take out or up with, a scoop |
Scoop
(n.) To empty by lading |
Scoop
(n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish |
Story
(v. t.) A set of rooms on the same floor or level |
Story
(n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred |
Story
(n.) The relation of an incident or minor event |
Story
(n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie |
Story
(v. t.) To tell in historical relation |
Story-teller
(n.) One who tells stories |
Story-teller
(n.) An historian |
Story-teller
(n.) A euphemism or child's word for |
Story-telling
(a.) Being accustomed to tell stories. |
Story-telling
(n.) The act or practice of telling stories. |
Story-writer
(n.) One who writes short stories, as for magazines. |
Story-writer
(n.) An historian |
| scoop shot | a basketball shot made with an underhand scooping motion |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
c fuck
fucking
screw
screwing
ass
nooky
nookie
piece of ass
piece of tail
roll in the hay
shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
compromise
via media | a middle way between two extremes |
great snipe
woodcock snipe Gallinago media | Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe |
bikini
two-piece | a woman's very brief bathing suit |
chessman
chess piece | any of white and black pieces used in playing the game of chess |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
firearm
piece small-arm | a portable gun, he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster |
floor level storey
story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
| fowling piece | a light shotgun used for fowling |
furniture
piece of furniture
article of furniture | furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy, they had too much furniture for the small apartment, there was only one piece of furniture in the room |
| fur-piece | a neckpiece made of fur |
| knee piece | armor plate that protects the knee |
man
piece | game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games, he taught me to set up the men on the chess board, he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage |
masking piece
masking | scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen |
objet d'art
art object
piece | a work of art of some artistic value, this store sells only objets d'art, it is not known who created this piece |
| period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
| piece | a separate part of a whole, an important piece of the evidence |
| piece | an item that is an instance of some type, he designed a new piece of equipment, she bought a lovely piece of china, |
piece of cloth
piece of material | a separate part consisting of fabric |
| piece of leather | a separate part consisting of leather |
| scoop | a large ladle, he used a scoop to serve the ice cream |
| scoop scoop shovel | the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe |
| set piece | a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting |
soap scoop max
liquid ecstasy
grievous bodily harm
goop
Georgia home boy
easy lay | street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate |
| three-piece suit | a business suit consisting of a jacket and vest and trousers |
two-piece two-piece suit
lounge suit | a business suit consisting of a matching jacket and skirt or trousers |
work
piece of work | a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing, it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works, the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work, he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey, the work of an active imagination, erosion is the work of wind or water over time |
yard goods
piece goods | merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard |
| piece | a distance, it is down the road a piece |
newsworthiness
news | the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins, the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial, he is no longer news in the fashion world |
middle cerebral vein
vena cerebri media | either of two cerebral veins |
| conversation piece | something interesting that stimulates conversation |
sheet
piece of paper
sheet of paper | paper used for writing or printing |
| print media | a medium that disseminates printed matter |
journalism
news media | newspapers and magazines collectively |
| news photography | photography of newsworthy events |
news article
news story
newspaper article | an article reporting news |
| piece | an artistic or literary composition, he wrote an interesting piece on Iran, the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests |
| think piece | an article in a newspaper or magazine or journal that represents opinions and ideas and discussion rather than bare facts |
lead
lead story | a news story of major importance |
writing
written material
piece of writing | the work of a writer, anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect), the writing in her novels is excellent, that editorial was a fine piece of writing |
| story | a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events, he writes stories for the magazines |
adventure story
heroic tale | a story of an adventure |
mystery
mystery story
whodunit | a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie |
| detective story | a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution |
love story
romance | a story dealing with love |
| short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
| news item | an item in a newspaper |