(medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. / (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.

A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.). / (transitive) To create a plan for. / (intransitive) To intend. / (intransitive) To make a plan.

(baseball) A flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batter's box, which is used as a basis for judging pitched strikes and balls, and the touching of which by a runner advancing from or past third base scores a run.

(anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.

(intransitive) To happen or to occur. / (obsolete) To take precedence or priority. / (obsolete) To take effect; to prevail. / (obsolete) To sit in a particular location, take one's place.

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. / A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.

(transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat / (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid

(textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.