To refuse suddenly.
To stop short and refuse to go on.
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.
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.
To refuse; to veto.
To contradict.
To disprove.
To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.
Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
A right of veto.
An unfavorable point or characteristic.
A word that indicates negation.
A negative quantity.
An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
No; nay.
Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
Denying a proposition.
Not positive nor neutral.
HIV negative.
COVID-19 negative.
Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
Of a number: less than zero
Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.