Butting - English meaning

Butting – definitions in English dictionary

verb
(of a person or animal) hit (someone or something) with the head or horns.
Usage examples:
She butted him in the chest
Synonims:
Ram Headbutt Bunt Bump Buffet Push Thrust Shove Prod Knock Tup

verb
Adjoin or meet end to end.
Usage examples:
The shop butted up against the row of houses
Synonims:
Adjoin Abut Butt up to Be next to Be adjacent to Border (on)Neighbour Verge on Bound on Be contiguous with Be connected to Communicate with Link up with Extend as far as Extend to Join Conjo

noun
A push or blow, especially one given with the head.
Usage examples:
The characters can fight hand to hand using punches, kicks, nudges, butts, combos…

noun
The person or thing at which criticism or ridicule is directed.
Usage examples:
His singing is the butt of dozens of jokes

noun
An archery or shooting target or range.
Usage examples:
The practice butts open at 8.30am.

noun
The thicker end of something, especially a tool or a weapon.
Usage examples:
A rifle butt

noun
The stub of a cigar or a cigarette.
Usage examples:
If i give them a bag of nickels and an ashtray full of cigarette butts, will they tell me my future?

noun
A person's buttocks or anus.
Usage examples:
I was being paid to sit on my butt and watch television

noun
The trunk of a tree, especially the part just above the ground.
Usage examples:
Pick the tree up and tap the butt on the ground a few times, notice how many needles fall off the t…

noun
A cask, typically used for wine, beer, or water.
Usage examples:
A butt of malmsey

noun
A liquid measure equal to 126 us gallons (equivalent to 477.5 litres).
Usage examples:
The pension was originally stipulated at £100 and a butt of sack (108 gallons of sweet wine) yearly.

verb
Present participle of butt

Butting translation into English

Butting: translate from English into Chinese

对接, 疆, 疆界, 畛域

Butting: translate from English into Dutch

Stoten, Grens

Butting: translate from English into French

Buter, Abouter, Donner un coup de tête, Donner un coup de corne

Butting: translate from English into German

Stoßen, Mit dem kopf stoßen, Mit den hörnen stoßen

Butting: translate from English into Hindi

बटिंग, पीपे में रखना

Butting: translate from English into Italian

Sbattere, Cozzare, Urtare

Butting: translate from English into Korean

식료품 저장실

Butting: translate from English into Russian

Бодаться, Граница, Предел

Butting: translate from English into Spanish

Cabezazo

Word origin

late Middle English: the noun apparently related to Dutch bot ‘stumpy’, also to buttock; the verb partly from butt2, reinforced by abut.

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Butting – similar words

but

conjunction
Used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned.
Usage examples:
He stumbled but didn't fall

preposition
Except; apart from; other than.
Usage examples:
We were never anything but poor

adverb
No more than; only.
Usage examples:
He is but a shadow of his former self

But - all meanings in English

Butting synonims

abut

verb
(of a building or an area of land) be next to or have a common boundary with.
Usage examples:
Gardens abutting great prescott street

verb
If a building or area of land abuts something or on something, it is next to it or touches it on one side
Usage examples:
Mexico abuts (on) some of the richest parts of the united states., their house abutted (onto) the p…

Abut - all meanings in English

adjoin

verb
Be next to and joined with (a building, room, or piece of land).
Usage examples:
The dining room adjoins a conservatory

Adjoin - all meanings in English

buffet

noun
A meal consisting of several dishes from which guests serve themselves.
Usage examples:
A cold buffet lunch

verb
(especially of wind or waves) strike repeatedly and violently; batter.
Usage examples:
Rough seas buffeted the coast

noun
A blow or punch.
Usage examples:
Soothly, as he followed after me, i had a mind to turn about and deal him a buffet on the face, to …

Buffet - all meanings in English

bump

noun
A light blow or a jolting collision.
Usage examples:
A nasty bump on the head

verb
Knock or run into someone or something with a jolt.
Usage examples:
I almost bumped into him

verb
An impact (as from a collision)

Bump - all meanings in English

bunt

verb
(of a batter) gently tap (a pitched ball) without swinging in an attempt to make it more difficult to field.
Usage examples:
He tried to bunt the ball down the first baseline

noun
An act or result of bunting a pitched ball.
Usage examples:
When jim abbott first took the mound for the california angels, we could see his disability - that …

noun
The baggy centre of a fishing net or a sail.
Usage examples:
The sailors hoisted the trysails a little way, tightened the sheets, fixed bunts to the sail, and s…

Bunt - all meanings in English

join

verb
Link; connect.
Usage examples:
The tap was joined to a pipe

noun
A place or line where two or more things are connected or fastened together.
Usage examples:
It was soldered so well that you couldn't see the join

Join - all meanings in English

knock

verb
Strike a surface noisily to attract attention, especially when waiting to be let in through a door.
Usage examples:
He strolled over and knocked on a door marked enquiries

noun
A sudden short sound caused by a blow, especially on a door to attract attention or gain entry.
Usage examples:
There was a sudden knock at the door, the noise seemingly unnatural and loud in the silence that i …

verb
To repeatedly hit something, producing a noise
Usage examples:
Someone is knocking at the door., jane knocked on the window to attract his attention., alice accid…

Knock - all meanings in English

neighbour

noun
A person living next door to or very near to the speaker or person referred to.
Usage examples:
Our garden was the envy of the neighbours

verb
(of a place or object) be situated next to or very near (another).
Usage examples:
The square neighbours the old quarter of the town

Neighbour - all meanings in English

prod

verb
Poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object.
Usage examples:
He prodded her in the ribs

noun
A poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object.
Usage examples:
He gave the wire netting an experimental prod

noun
(especially in ireland) a protestant.

Prod - all meanings in English

push

verb
Exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself.
Usage examples:
She pushed her glass towards him

noun
An act of pushing someone or something in order to move them away from oneself.
Usage examples:
He closed the door with a push

verb
Move with force, "he pushed the table into a corner"

Push - all meanings in English

ram

noun
An uncastrated male sheep.
Usage examples:
Mr watkinson, from constable burton, near leyburn, won best male with his aged ram.

verb
Roughly force (something) into place.
Usage examples:
He rammed his stick into the ground

abbreviation
Random-access memory.

Ram - all meanings in English

shove

verb
Push (someone or something) roughly.
Usage examples:
They started pushing and shoving people out of the way

noun
A strong push.
Usage examples:
She gave him a hefty shove and he nearly fell

verb
Come into rough contact with while moving

Shove - all meanings in English

thrust

verb
Push suddenly or violently in a specified direction.
Usage examples:
She thrust her hands into her pockets

noun
A sudden or violent lunge with a pointed weapon or a bodily part.
Usage examples:
He drove the blade upwards with one powerful thrust

verb
To push suddenly and strongly
Usage examples:
[ t ] she thrust the money into his hand., [ i ] he thrust at me with a stick., [ c ] a sword thrus…

Thrust - all meanings in English

tup

noun
A ram.
Usage examples:
Tups were set free among the ewes for mating

verb
(of a ram) copulate with (a ewe).
Usage examples:
Making small changes to the number of ewes a ram is required to tup can have a big impact on costs

Tup - all meanings in English

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