cave
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
caving
computing
engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cave, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B kor (“throat”), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian սոր (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English sċræf. More at cavum, cavus and cage.
Inflected forms:
form: caves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
pos: noun
examples: We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
gloss: A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
pos: noun
examples: Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves, […]
gloss: A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
pos: noun
examples: This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.
gloss: A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
pos: noun
examples: My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.
gloss: A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
pos: noun
examples: It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.
gloss: A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
pos: noun
examples: These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave) […]
gloss: Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] the casing can then be placed in the hole without encountering any cave and core drilling in rock can begin.
gloss: A collapse or cave-in.
pos: noun
examples: The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side.
gloss: The vagina.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
slang
examples: Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring.
gloss: A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Without joining the cave, Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957.
gloss: Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the cave of the ear
gloss: A code cave.
pos: noun
examples: Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking. […] Additionally, you'd need to make sure that the cave properly cleans the stack.
gloss: To surrender.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: He caved under pressure.
Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.
On Friday morning, Salvador Illa, the former health minister of Spain who now leads the Catalan branch of the PSOE, said the socialists would be happy to fight another general election rather than cave to Junts and the ERC’s demands.
gloss: To collapse.
pos: verb
examples: First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave, then we ran.
gloss: To hollow out or undermine.
pos: verb
examples: The levee has been severely caved by the river current.
gloss: To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
pos: verb
examples: Pam has been caving for 25 years. She and her husband Tim are among the top cavers in the country. They are passionate about the world hidden beneath our feet and they were to be my instructors and guides on my first ever foray below ground that didn't involve getting on the tube.
gloss: In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
pos: verb
examples: The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.
gloss: To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore.
gloss: To dwell in a cave.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: although perhaps / It may be heard at court that such as we / Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time / May make some stronger head
gloss: look out!; beware!
pos: intj
tags: UK
examples: Ssh! Cave! Mum's the word! Not 'arf, or what?
Synonyms: earthhole
Derived words: Aladdin's cave
Blackfellows Caves
breathing cave
cave art
cave bear
caveboy
cave cricket
cave disease
cave diver
cave dweller
cavefish
cave flyer
caveful
cavegirl
cave guest
cave hyena
caveless
cavelet
cavelike
cave line
cave lion
caveman
cavemate
cavemouth
Cave of Adullam
cave painting
cave-painting
cave pearl
caveperson
cave physa
cave popcorn
cave salamander
Caves Beach
Caveside
cave swallow
cave swiftlet
cavewoman
Denisova Cave
encave
Fingal's Cave
goon cave
gypsum cave
ice cave
incave
intercave
mom cave
palaeocave
paleocave
salt cave
seacave
show cave
Strinati's cave salamander
Subway Cave
Tasmanian cave spider
The Caves
Wind Cave
wine cave
woman cave
Wombeyan Caves
block caving
cave in
cave out
caver
caving hammer
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