Word Finder - bags

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A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.

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• poke
• sack
• tote

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A handbag

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• handbag
• purse

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A suitcase.

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A schoolbag, especially a backpack.

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One’s preference.

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Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

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• cup of tea
• thing

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An ugly woman.

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• dog
• hag

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The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

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The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

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First, second, or third base.

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He headed back to the bag.

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(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

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A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

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If one has a bag of three apples and the letter 'a' is taken to denote 'apple', then such bag could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Note that in an ordinary context, when talking about a bag of apples, one does not care about identifying the individual apples, although one might be interested in distinguishing apples by species, for example, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.

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• multiset

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A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

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the bag of a cow

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A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

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The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

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A scrotum.

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A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

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(chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

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A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

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£1000, a grand.

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A large number or amount.

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To put into a bag.

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To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

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We bagged three deer yesterday.

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To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

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To furnish or load with a bag.

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(African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.

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(African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.

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To criticise sarcastically.

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To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

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To fit with a bag to collect urine.

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To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

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The brisk wind bagged the sails.

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To hang like an empty bag.

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His trousers bag at the knees.

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To drop away from the correct course.

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To swell with arrogance.

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To become pregnant.

She placed the bags on the counter.

Jessi staggered under the grocery bags filling her arms.

Sarah counted the full bags.

Some other couple came in just before we left, hauling bags and all.

She eyed the garment bags.

She'd kill as many punching bags as she could, until she was numb to the world again.

She stacked the bags on the couch.

These totally degradable plastic bags are designed to maintain their full strength for a year from manufacture under normal conditions.

Klean Kanteen is also partnered with REI, Reusable Bags, and Greenfeet.

He picked up her bags and followed the pair to the small room.

He dropped the bill on the counter, pocketed his card, and grabbed the garment bags.

Bring your own reusable bags when you go shopping to reduce plastic and paper waste and conserve energy.

Consider using fabric grocery bags that can be used time and time again, unlike disposable plastic or paper bags that end up in the waste system.

Some people choose to compost leaves within plastic bags.

Use cloth or canvas bags instead of having your groceries bagged in new bags.

She did want to use the bags first, and if Jackson hadn't been in this state, he would be getting a shrill earful for feeding from the bottles.

Why don't we grab your bags and I'll show you to your rooms while Connor and Jackson make drinks.

Did you find the bags the way you told me this afternoon— when you were pretending to be Byrne?

I'd forgotten all about the bags I put in his trunk.

Then I said I'd turn the bags in, back in Scranton—told him I had a lawyer friend or something.

With a sigh, she knelt and released all the bags.

The chief articles of import are apparel and textiles, machinery and hardware, stimulants, narcotics, explosives, bags and sacks, books and paper, oils and tea.

In old age they appear much ground down; particularly is this the case with women, who chew the different kinds of fibres, of which they make nets and bags.

In 1792 the quantity exported from the United States was only 1 It is related that in the year 1784 William Rathbone, an American merchant resident in Liverpool, received from one of his correspondents in the southern states a consignment of eight bags of cotton, which on its arrival in Liverpool was seized by the customhouse officers, on the allegation that it could not have been grown in the United States, and that it was liable to seizure under the Shipping Acts, as not being imported in a vessel belonging to the country of its growth.

At the same time Musha Island, at the entrance to the Gulf of Tajura, was bought by the British " for ten bags of rice," Bab Island, in the same gulf, and Aubad Island, off Zaila, were also purchased, the object of the East India Company being to obtain a suitable place " for the harbour of their ships without any prohibition whatever."

Thin straw-coloured paper, such as is used for biscuit bags, may be conveniently employed by travellers unable to carry a quantity of bibulous paper.

The latex, which exudes slowly and in many tortuous courses, some of it ultimately falling on the ground, is allowed to remain on the tree for several days, until it becomes dry and solid, when it is pulled off in strings, which are either rolled up into balls or put into bags in loose masses, in which form it enters commerce under the name of Ceara " scrap."

While he also prevents interruption of the operation by means of water-jackets, he uses hot-blast, and produces, besides metallic lead, large volumes of lead fumes which are drawn off by fans through long cooling tubes, and then forced through suspended bags which filter off the dust, called "blue powder."

The export in 1905 was 10,820,604 bags of 132 lb each, with an official valuation of £21,420,330.

By far the largest of the imports are cotton, silk and woollen piece-goods, while subordinate imports include hardware, gunny bags, sugar, tobacco and liquors.

Air goods, such as cushions, beds, gas bags, and so forth, are made of textile fabrics which have been coated with mixed rubber either by the spreading process above described, or by means of heated rollers, the curing being then effected by steam heat.

The Albizzi tried to strengthen their position by conferring exceptional powers on the capitano del popolo and by juggling with the election bags, but the Medici still had a great hold on the populace.

They consist of tanks or cisterns fitted with " heads " from which a number of bags of specially woven cloth are suspended in a suitable manner, and into which the melted sugar or liquor to be filtered flows from the melting pans.

Thus a maximum of filtering surface with a minimum of liquor in each bag is obtained, and a fa .r greater number of bags are got into a given area that would otherwise be possible, while the danger of bursting the bags by leaving them unsupported is avoided.

As the liquor goes on filtering through the bags they gradually get filled up with slime and sludge, and the clear liquor ceases to run.

Steam is then turned on to the outside of the bags and sheaths, and hot water is run through them to wash out all the sweets they contain.

Large doors at the side of the cistern are then opened, and as soon as the bags are cool enough they are removed at the expense of very exacting labour and considerable time, and fresh bags and sheaths are fixed in their places ready for filtering fresh liquor.

The dirty bags and sheaths are then washed, mangled and dried, and made ready for use again.

In a refinery in Nova Scotia a system has been introduced by which a travelling crane above the bag filters lifts up any head bodily with all its bags attached, and runs it to the mud and washing tanks at the end of the battery, while another similar crane drops another head, fitted with fresh bags, into the place of the one just removed.

The whole operation of thus changing a filter occupies about ten minutes, and there is no need for anyone to enter the hot cistern to detach the bags, which are removed in the open air above the mud tank.

By this arrangement the work of a refinery can be carried on with about one-half the cisterns otherwise required, because, although it does not reduce the number of bags required per day for a given amount of work, it enables the refiner to use one cistern twice a day with fresh bags, instead of only once as heretofore.

The tobacco flower is fortunately perfectly self-fertile, and by enclosing the flowers of selected plants in paper bags, so as to exclude all possibility of hybridization, progeny true to the type of the mother plant can be obtained.

The solution of metallic chlorides or sulphates so obtained is precipitated by iron, the metallic bismuth filtered, washed with water, pressed in canvas bags, and finally fused in graphite crucibles, the surface being protected by a layer of charcoal.

A crude method consists of straining the liquid through cotton or other cloth, either stretched on wooden frames or formed into long narrow bags ("bag-filters").

The coin is counted and packed into bags for despatch from the Mint.

From the palaces and retinues of thousands of servants attached to the royal service may be inferred at once the despotic power of the Mexican rulers and the heavy taxation of the people; in fact some of the most remarkable of the picture-writings are tribute-rolls enumerating by hundreds and thousands the mantles, ocelot-skins, bags of gold-dust, bronze hatchets, loads of chocolate, &c., furnished periodically by the towns.

At the moment of communion the acolytes received in linen bags the consecrated Hosts to carry to the assisting priests.

The exports of coffee from Rio in 1908 amounted to $ 3,062,268 bags of 60 kilogrammes each, officially valued at about 27,846,000.

After being dried, the hanks are packed in linen bags and boiled for three hours in a weaker soapy solution, then washed out in pure warm water and dried in a centrifugal hydroextractor.

In this process the silk waste is put into strong, open-meshed cotton bags, made to hold (in accordance with the wish of individual spinners) from i lb to 5 lb in weight.