balk vs cheese

balk

verb
  • To stop short and refuse to go on. 

  • To refuse suddenly. 

  • To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. 

  • To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. 

  • To leave or make balks in. 

  • To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player. 

  • To stop, check, block. 

  • To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring. 

  • To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. 

  • To disappoint; to frustrate. 

noun
  • Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". 

  • The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. 

  • The area of the table lying behind the baulk line. 

  • A sudden and obstinate stop. 

  • A hindrance or disappointment; a check. 

  • The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together. 

  • The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played. 

  • An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner. 

  • A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve. 

  • An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. 

cheese

verb
  • To stop; to refrain from. 

  • To smile excessively, as for a camera. 

  • To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.) 

  • To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games). 

  • To prepare curds for making cheese. 

  • To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. 

  • To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off". 

noun
  • Money. 

  • A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. 

  • That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy. 

  • Any particular variety of cheese. 

  • In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles. 

  • Smegma. 

  • A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture. 

  • A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. 

  • A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese. 

  • Wealth, fame, excellence, importance. 

  • Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. 

  • A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted. 

  • A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly) 

  • A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese 

  • The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis). 

  • A fastball. 

intj
  • Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling. 

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