A continuous strand of twisted threads of natural or synthetic fibers, such as wool or nylon, used in weaving or knitting, Informal A long, often elaborate narrative of real or fictitious adventures; an entertaining tale, Yarn made from Imperfectly carded stock, verb_ To tell a story, tell or spin a yarn, intransitive verb_ To tell an entertaining tale or series of tales

The dense, soft, often curly hair forming the coat of sheep and certain other mammals, such as the goat and alpaca, consisting of cylindrical strands of keratin covered by minute overlapping scales and much valued as a textile fiber, Hairy or downy material on a plant or animal, as on certain caterpillars, wool pulled from a carcass, adjective_ this sense?) Made of wool

Metal that has been drawn out into a strand or rod, used chiefly for structural support, as in concrete, and for conducting electricity, when it is usually insulated with a rubber or plastic cladding, The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show, The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine, intransitive verb_ Slang To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example), To send a telegram to (someone), Computers To implement (a capability) through logic circuitry that is permanently connected within a computer or calculator and therefore not subject to change by programming

Any of various submicroscopic agents that infect living organisms, often causing disease, and that consist of a single or double strand of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms, A computer program or series of commands that can replicate itself and that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other files or programs which users later transfer to other computers. Viruses usually have a harmful effect, as in erasing all the data on a disk, A harmful or destructive influence

To wind together (two or more threads, for example) so as to produce a single strand, To make (one's way) in a tortuous manner, To alter the normal aspect of; contort, noun_ A loaf of bread or other bakery product made from pieces of dough twisted together, A complete rotation of the body around its vertical axis, as in diving and gymnastics, The state of being twisted into a spiral; torsional stress or strain

Fine cord of a fibrous material, such as cotton or flax, made of two or more filaments twisted together and used in needlework and the weaving of cloth, Something that suggests the fineness or thinness of such a strand, cord, or filament, A helical or spiral ridge on a screw, nut, or bolt, intransitive verb_ To machine a thread on (a screw, nut, or bolt), To remove (body hair) by using a looped thread that has been wound tightly in the middle, To form a thread when dropped from a spoon, as boiling sugar syrup, transitive verb_ To pass a thread through the eye of, To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid

A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn, A wisp or lock of hair, a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides), verb_ bring to the ground, leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue, transitive verb_ To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together, To break a strand of (a rope, for example), intransitive verb_ To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground, To be stranded, as on a beach. Used of sea animals, To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water

A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue, In the seventeenth century, a long curl attached to the wig behind, A treacherous person, intransitive verb_ To drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain, To move in a sinuous or gliding manne, To crawl like a snake, transitive verb_ Colloq. U.S. To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out, (Naut.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm

To move over a surface while maintaining smooth continuous contact, Baseball To drop down from a running into a lying or diving position when approaching a base so as to avoid being tagged out, To place covertly or deftly, noun_ An object holding by friction upon a band, tag, cord, or the like, and serving to hold its parts or strands in place, A slip or inadvertence, A smooth surface, especially of ice, for sliding on

The land along the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river; a coast, The coast or land adjacent to a considerable body of water, as an ocean or sea, or a lake or river; the edge or margin of the land; a strand, the land along the edge of a body of water, verb_ support by placing against something solid or rigid, arrive on shore, serve as a shore to, transitive verb_ To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up, To support by or as if by a prop