Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, informal
Synonyms: cough up, fork out, fork over
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Unix, especially
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
administer or bestow, as in small portions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: give
Narrower terms: assign, allot, portion, reallot, deal, give, apply
History
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
