A person or thing that irritates or instigates.
Synonym of gadabout (“a person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others”)
Any dipterous (“two-winged”) insect or fly of the family Oestridae (commonly known as a botfly) or Tabanidae (horsefly), noted for irritating animals by buzzing about them, and biting them to suck their blood; a gadbee.
A person who takes without giving back; a bloodsucker.
A person who upsets the status quo by posing novel or upsetting questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by being an irritant.
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
Fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
To have a limit in a particular set.
Being a fixed limit game.