a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | a quick run |
the act of moving with great haste | the act of moving with great haste |
a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener | distinctive and stylish elegance |
the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code |
a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech | a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text |
a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length | a footrace run at top speed |
a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | |