To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding
To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
To oppress or grievously burden.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show, a skit
An amusing person.
A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
if a law goes through, or if it goes through a law-making institution, it is officially approved
if a thought or idea goes through your mind, you consider it for a short time
if something such as a request, proposal, or contract goes through, it is officially accepted or approved
to examine or search something very carefully
to experience something difficult or unpleasant
to follow an official system for dealing with a type of problem or request
to perform a set of actions that you regularly perform
to practise all of something such as a speech, song, or play
to use, spend, or eat all of something, especially quickly
Word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor
(degree, contranym) Used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes)
Used to intensify or dramatise non-figurative statements; tending towards a meaningless filler word in repeated use.
Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.




