bag vs contract

bag

verb
  • To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To laugh uncontrollably. 

  • To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest. 

  • To steal. 

  • To put into a bag. 

  • To fit with a bag to collect urine. 

  • To hang like an empty bag. 

  • To drop away from the correct course. 

  • To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. 

  • To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator. 

  • To criticise sarcastically. 

  • To forget, ignore, or get rid of. 

  • To furnish or load with a bag. 

noun
  • A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath. 

  • One's preference. 

  • A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags. 

  • A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods. 

  • The scrotum. 

  • A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated. 

  • £1000, a grand. 

  • A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance. 

  • An ugly woman. 

  • A fellow gay man. 

  • The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base. 

  • A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics. 

  • A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc. 

  • A large number or amount. 

  • First, second, or third base. 

  • A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig. 

  • A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds. 

  • The quantity of game bagged in a hunt. 

contract

verb
  • To gain or acquire (an illness). 

  • To enter into a contract with. 

  • To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. 

  • To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. 

  • To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain. 

  • To betroth; to affiance. 

  • To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. 

  • To bring on; to incur; to acquire. 

  • To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. 

noun
  • An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone. 

  • An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed. 

  • An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement. 

  • The document containing such an agreement. 

  • A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts. 

  • The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump. 

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