1 : to dig or labor with or as if with a spade delved into her handbag in search of a pen. 2a : to make a careful or detailed search for information delved into the past. b : to examine a subject in detail the book delves into the latest research won’t delve into her reason for leaving.

verb (used with object), fed, feed·ing. to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child. to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations. to provide as food. to furnish for consumption. to satisfy; minister to; gratify: Poetry feeds the imagination.

1. There must have been a computer malfunction.
2. The drug caused a malfunction in the brain.
3. Results have been delayed owing to a malfunction in the computer.
4. Inexplicably, the usually reliable pumps started to malfunction and finally broke down.

What is the opposite of malfunctioning?

delve Add to list Share. The verb delve means to dig into, loosen, or investigate. The verb is most often used in the more figurative sense — like to delve into a problem or into someone’s personal life.

So a ‘road’ is anything that connects two points, while ‘streets’ are public ways which have buildings on either side. Avenues, meanwhile, have the same attributes as streets but run perpendicular to them, while a boulevard is essentially a wide street (or avenue), with a median through the middle.

Street types (also known as street suffixes) are identifiers of street names and serve to describe the street. Some examples of street types are: street, road, avenue, boulevard, junction, crescent, etc.

rights

to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities. to wish that (something) had never been done, taken place, etc.: I rue the day he was born.

Yes, rue is in the scrabble dictionary.

to speak slowly

A dead end, also known as a cul-de-sac (/ˈkʌldəsæk, ˈkʊl-/, from French for ‘bag-bottom’), no through road or no exit road, is a street with only one inlet or outlet. The term “dead end” is understood in all varieties of English, but the official terminology and traffic signs include many different alternatives.

List of Acronyms/Abbreviations

A cul de sac is a dead-end street, particularly one with a circle for turning around at the end.

A boulevard is usually a widened, multi-lane arterial street with a median and landscaping between the curbs and sidewalks on either side. A court is a short street that ends as a cul de sac.

Boulevard strip is the regional term for a patch of grass between a curb and a sidewalk, which in other places is called a tree lawn. The French word boulevard literally means “rampart,” or “defensive embankment.” Later it was adapted to mean “a promenade beside a rampart.”