Word Finder - cushion

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A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.

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Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.

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A sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.

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A riotous dance, formerly common at weddings.

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To furnish with cushions.

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to cushion a sofa

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To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

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To absorb or deaden the impact of.

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to cushion a blow

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To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

Too weak to push it off, he let his head drop back onto the cushion behind him.

In short, she had a cushion job.

She climbed onto the vehicle and settled on the soft cushion.

Series 2, Disciflorae, takes its name from a development of the floral axis which forms a ring or cushion at the base of the ovary or is broken up into glands; the ovary is superior.

The emerging global world economy lacks the corresponding social structures that cushion economic vicissitudes within domestic society.

Give me out my red shawl, it's under the cushion.

There wasn't near as much snow early yesterday and it's too loosely packed to provide much of a cushion.

These symbols were laid upon a couch (lectus), the left arm resting on a cushion (pulvinus, whence the couch itself was often called pulvinar) in the attitude of reclining.

In cushion plants the leaves are very small, very close together, and the low habit is protective against winds.

Winkler (1703-1770), professor of physics at Leipzig, substituted a leather cushion for the hand.

Nairne's machine could give either positive or negative electricity, the first named being collected from the prime conductor carrying the collecting points and the second from the prime conductor carrying the cushion.

It is readily seen that if the optical system be symmetrical, the origins of the co-ordinate systems collinear with the optical axis Object J Barrel shaped Cushion shaped Distorted image FIG.

The female prothalli, which are sometimes branched, consist of a thick cushion bearing thin, erect lobes, at the base of which the archegonia are situated.

In the genus Lepidophloios the leaf-cushions are more prominent than in Lepidodendron, and their greatest diameter is in the transverse direction; on the older stems the leaf-scar lies towards the lower side of the cushion.

The most interesting point in the structure of the leaf-base is the presence of a ligule, like that of Isoetes or Selaginella, which was seated in a deep pit, opening on the upper surface of the cushion, just above the insertion of the lamina.

Dogs like aniseed, so you could include some aniseed in a dog cushion.

Any thoughts of a two-goal half-time cushion were immediately dispelled.

The whole cat bed measures 20 " wide, 8 " deep and the plump inner cushion measures 12 " .

I was taken to the prince and placed me on a comfy cushion.

A removable extension cushion is also available to increase the overall length of the couch for treating male or taller clients.

Cert 12. £ 39 LXDirect.co.uk " the Simpsons " plush cushion One size.

The final solution was to use the rubber from a whoopee cushion.

The player whose ball is the closest to the innermost edge of the balk cushion wins the lag.

Plastic floor tiles, cushion flooring, roofing felts, ropes, and blankets can also contain asbestos.

Pulling on just one, high-mounted handle hinges the backrest forward and makes the cushion move forward and down at the same time.

Any cushion we had in the First Division has been wiped out by our own ineptitude.

She could see a shredded couch cushion and broken glass in the hallway outside the bathroom door and recalled the shape her apartment was in.

In the erect position of the leaf the lower side has its cells extremely turgid, and the pulvinus thus forms a cushion, holding up the petiole.

The capitals are, in the lower order, the characteristic funnel-shaped rectangular Byzantine capitals, some of them with open work, bearing cushions; this is a type probably derived from the cushion itself, and developed in the East about the second half of the 5th century.

Rock-filling yields and becomes consolidated under heavy pressure, and therefore does not furnish a rigid support of the overlying strata, but rather a cushion to control and equalize the subsidence.

It must be mentioned 4 _ 28 that the pressure of the cushion C on the type-wheels 6 - 30 has no influence whatever upon the micrometer-screw, 7 -32 because the type-wheels are mounted on a hollow cylindrical axis, concentric with the axis of the screw, but entirely disconnected from the screw itself.

This process with a moderate degree of heat thoroughly cleans it of external greasy matter, and all that is necessary before manufacturing is to gently tap the fur upon a leather cushion stuffed with horsehair with smooth canes of a flexibility suited to the strength of the fur.

The change in direction of the air when striking a flat surface such as the side of a building will form a cushion to diminish the effects of impulses and shocks from local gusts.

Some black cabs have an integral booster cushion in the rear for older children.

A slightly through action helps cushion sudden lunges OK, let's have the $ 64,000 question.

With a couple of big pushes she was delivered onto a big squashy cushion.

If you 're a little squeamish, I also suggest you have a cushion nearby.

He then parred the next two holes to take a two-shot cushion into the tough closing stretch.

The cheapest upholstered furniture usually just simply has a cut chunk of foam in each cushion cover.

But the bodies of moderately overweight men appear to cushion the blow.

Each padded cushion has a zip enabling you to move or add padding to any area, ensuring maximum comfort.

If you don't have a cushion plunger just ignore the remarks about the plunger.

He made one attempt to reconcile the disputes between the army and the politicians by a conference, but ended the barren discussion on the relative merits of aristocracies, monarchies and democracies, interspersed with Bible texts, by throwing a cushion at the speaker's head and running downstairs.

Here the gravelly desert is characterized by cushion plants, such as Anabasis aretioides; by switch plants, such as Retama Retam; and specially by spiny plants, such as Zizyphus Lotus and Zilla macropteris; whereas succulent plants are rare.

The geometrical diagrams were particularly vexing because I could not see the relation of the different parts to one another, even on the cushion.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Sciatica sufferer Mrs Nicholson How Does the ROPHI Cushion Give You Lower Back Pain Relief For Osteoarthritis Treatment?

Driver 's age driving seat cushion or quot which means.

Give me out my red shawl, it 's under the cushion.

All the sheepskin cushion covers are easily removed for dry cleaning.