| eel | | |
| n. (food) | 1. eel | the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled. |
| ~ common eel, freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked. |
| ~ fish | the flesh of fish used as food.; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish" |
| ~ smoked eel | eel cured by smoking. |
| ~ elver | young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried. |
| n. (animal) | 2. eel | voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins. |
| ~ malacopterygian, soft-finned fish | any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii. |
| ~ anguilliformes, order anguilliformes, order apodes | elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced. |
| ~ elver | young eel. |
| ~ common eel, freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked. |
| ~ anguilla sucklandii, tuna | New Zealand eel. |
| ~ moray, moray eel | family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked. |
| ~ conger, conger eel | large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food. |
| stake | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. interest, stake | (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something.; "they have interests all over the world"; "a stake in the company's future" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ share, percentage, portion, part | assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group.; "he wanted his share in cash" |
| ~ grubstake | funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits. |
| ~ controlling interest | ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares. |
| ~ insurable interest | an interest in a person or thing that will support the issuance of an insurance policy; an interest in the survival of the insured or in the preservation of the thing that is insured. |
| ~ vested interest | (law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another. |
| ~ security interest | any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation. |
| ~ terminable interest | an interest in property that terminates under specific conditions. |
| ~ undivided interest, undivided right | the interest in property owned by tenants whereby each tenant has an equal right to enjoy the entire property. |
| ~ fee | an interest in land capable of being inherited. |
| ~ equity | the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation. |
| ~ reversion | (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee). |
| ~ right | (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing.; "mineral rights"; "film rights" |
| n. (communication) | 2. post, stake | a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track).; "a pair of posts marked the goal"; "the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake" |
| ~ visual signal | a signal that involves visual communication. |
| ~ starting post | a post marking the starting point of a race (especially a horse race). |
| ~ winning post | the post at the end of a racecourse. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. stake | instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning. |
| ~ instrument of execution | an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person. |
| n. (possession) | 4. bet, stake, stakes, wager | the money risked on a gamble. |
| ~ gamble | money that is risked for possible monetary gain. |
| ~ jackpot, kitty, pot | the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker). |
| ~ ante | (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot. |
| ~ kitty, pool | the combined stakes of the betters. |
| ~ pool | any communal combination of funds.; "everyone contributed to the pool" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. stake | a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground. |
| ~ post | an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position.; "he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them" |
| v. (social) | 6. adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture | put at risk.; "I will stake my good reputation for this" |
| ~ lay on the line, put on the line, risk | expose to a chance of loss or damage.; "We risked losing a lot of money in this venture"; "Why risk your life?"; "She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong" |
| v. (competition) | 7. back, bet on, gage, game, punt, stake | place a bet on.; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" |
| ~ ante | place one's stake. |
| ~ parlay, double up | stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager. |
| ~ wager, bet, play | stake on the outcome of an issue.; "I bet $100 on that new horse"; "She played all her money on the dark horse" |
| v. (contact) | 8. post, stake | mark with a stake.; "stake out the path" |
| ~ mark | make or leave a mark on.; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads" |
| v. (contact) | 9. stake | tie or fasten to a stake.; "stake your goat" |
| ~ fasten, fix, secure | cause to be firmly attached.; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" |
| v. (contact) | 10. impale, stake | kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole.; "the enemies were impaled and left to die" |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| ~ pierce | make a hole into.; "The needle pierced her flesh" |
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