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1: railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction [syn: {cog railway}]

1: an extortionate rent

1: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn: {score}, {hit}, {tally}] 2: place in a rack; "rack pool balls" 3: defeat thorou...

1: an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack

1: a loud and disturbing noise 2: an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit [syn: {fraudulent scheme}, {illegitimate enterprise}] 3: the...

1: club for players of racket sports

1: some who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) v : carry on illegal business activities involving crime

1: law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions [syn: {anti-racketeering law}, {RICO Act}, {RICO}]

1: engaging in a racket

1: characterized by loud and constant noise [syn: {noisiness}]

1: uncontrollably noisy [syn: {rip-roaring}, {uproarious}]

1: causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain" [syn: {wrenching}]

1: a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position [syn: {radar beacon}]

1: a person skilled in telling anecdotes [syn: {anecdotist}]

1: an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America [syn: {raccoon}]

1: a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games [syn: {racket}]

1: the ball used in playing the game of racquetball 2: a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets

1: full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style" [syn: {lively}] 2: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scand...

1: a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material 2: the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center...

1: measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects [syn: {microwave radar}, {radio detection and ranging}, {radiolocation}]

1: a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position [syn: {racon}]

1: a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves [syn: {radome}]

1: an electronic signal that has been reflected back to the radar antenna; contains information about the location and distance of the reflecting object

1: gunfire aimed a target that is being tracked by radar

1: a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface [syn: {blip}, {pip}]

1: English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943) [syn: {Hall}, {Marguerite Radclyffe Hall}]

1: a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking [syn: {ruddle}, {reddle}] v 1: twist or braid together, interlace [syn: {ruddle}] 2: mark or paint with raddle

1: worn until no longer useful; "battered trumpets and raddled radios"; "worn-out shoes with flapping soles" [syn: {worn-out}] 2: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking...

1: Indian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian philosophy to the West (1888-1975) [syn: {Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan}, {Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan}]

1: relating to or near the radius; "the radial aspect of the forearm" 2: relating to or moving along or having the direction of a radius; "radial velocity" 3: issuing in rays from a common centerXs; r...

1: branch of the brachial artery beginning below the elbow and extending down the forearm around the wrist and into the palm [syn: {arteria radialis}]

1: the absence of symmetry about an axis [ant: {radial symmetry}]

1: an internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase [syn: {rotary engine}]

1: radial pattern of incisions in the cornea that cause the cornea to bulge; performed to correct myopia

1: largest branch of the brachial plexus; extends down the humerus to the lateral epicondyle where it divides into one branch that goes to the skin on the back of the hand and another that goes to the...

1: pulse of the radial artery (felt in the wrist)

1: the property of symmetry about an axis; "the starfish illustrates radial symmetry" [ant: {radial asymmetry}]

1: pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing [syn: {radial}, {radial-ply tire}]

1: superficial veins ascending the radial side of the forearm; combines with the ulnar veins to form the brachial vein [syn: {vena radialis}]

1: velocity along the line of sight toward or away from the observer

1: of or relating to automobile tires that have a strip under the tread and relatively little stiffening in the sidewalls; "radial-ply tires"

1: pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing [syn: {radial}, {radial tire}]

1: in a radial manner; "an imaginative dispersal of the pews radially from the central focus of the pulpit"

1: having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point [syn: {centrosymmetric}]

1: the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degree...

1: the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface [syn: {glow}, {glowing}] 2: the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: {radiancy}, {shine}, ...

1: the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: {radiance}, {shine}, {effulgence}, {refulgence}, {refulgency}]

1: radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset" [syn: {beaming}, {beamy}, {effulgent}, {refulgent}]

1: energy that is transmitted in the form of (electromagnetic) radiation; energy that exists in the absence of matter

1: the rate of flow of radiant energy (electromagnetic waves)

1: heating a building by radiation from panels containing hot water or electrical heaters

1: in a radiant manner; "the bride smiled radiantly"

1: send out rays or waves; "The sun radiates heat" 2: send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness" 3: extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes ...

1: diverging from a common point [syn: {radiating(a)}]

1: energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles 2: the act of spreading outward from a central source 3: syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g...

1: graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle [syn: {radiation pattern}, {pattern}]

1: a field that represents the energy lost from the radiator to space

1: graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle [syn: {radiation diagram}, {pattern}]

1: the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave [syn: {corpuscular-radiation pressure}]

1: a pyrometer for estimating the temperature of distant sources of heat; radiation is focussed on a thermojunction connected in circuit with a galvanometer