Synonyms of the word

address

• n. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
• n. Act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech.
• n. Manner of speaking to another; delivery.
• n. Attention in the way one addresses a lady.
• n. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
• n. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
• n. A description of the location of a property.
• n. (by extension) The property itself.
• n. (computing) A location in computer memory.
• n. (Internet) An Internet address; URL.
• n. An email address.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
• v. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
• v. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
• v. (transitive) To direct, as words, to (anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. to (any…
• v. (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by…
• v. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
• v. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
• v. (transitive) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
• v. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech…
• v. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
• v. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

access

• n. (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
• n. (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
• n. (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
• n. (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
• n. (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
• n. (archaic, countable) An increase by addition; accession.
• n. (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
• n. (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
• n. (uncountable, law) The right of a non-custodial parent to visit their child.
• n. (uncountable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
• n. (uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
• v. (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.
• v. (transitive, computing) To have access to (data).

accost

• v. (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
• v. (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
• v. To solicit sexually.
• v. (transitive) To assault (the most common modern usage).
• n. (rare) Address; greeting.
• n. An attack.

address

• n. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
• n. Act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech.
• n. Manner of speaking to another; delivery.
• n. Attention in the way one addresses a lady.
• n. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
• n. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
• n. A description of the location of a property.
• n. (by extension) The property itself.
• n. (computing) A location in computer memory.
• n. (Internet) An Internet address; URL.
• n. An email address.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
• v. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
• v. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
• v. (transitive) To direct, as words, to (anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. to (any…
• v. (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by…
• v. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
• v. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
• v. (transitive) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
• v. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech…
• v. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
• v. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

adjust

• v. (transitive) To modify.
• v. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
• v. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
• v. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.

aim

• n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the…
• n. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
• n. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
• n. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
• n. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
• v. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or…
• v. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try…
• v. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act,…
• v. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group.
• v. (obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
• n. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

align

• v. (intransitive) To form in line; to fall into line.
• v. (transitive) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.
• v. (transitive, computing) To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e…
• v. (intransitive) to identify with or match the behaviour, thoughts, etc of another person.
• v. (bioinformatics)To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA or protein sequences which have regions of…

aline

• v. (intransitive) To form in line; to fall into line.
• v. (transitive) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.
• v. (intransitive) To adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
• adv. in line.

apply

• v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
• v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
• v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
• v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
• v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
• v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
• v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• v. (obsolete) To visit.
• adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

broach

• n. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel.
• n. (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
• n. Alternative spelling of brooch.
• n. A spit for cooking food.
• n. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
• n. (architecture, Britain, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
• n. A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
• n. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
• n. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
• v. (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
• v. (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
• v. (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually…
• v. (transitive) To be overcome or submerged by a wave or surge of water.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

code

• n. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
• n. A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the…
• n. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
• n. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
• n. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
• n. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
• n. (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of…
• n. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
• v. (computing) To write software programs.
• v. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
• v. (cryptography) To encode.
• v. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
• v. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

come

• v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
• v. (intransitive) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
• v. (intransitive) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
• v. (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
• v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
• v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
• v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
• v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
• v. (intransitive) Happen.
• v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have a social background.
• v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
• n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
• n. (slang) Semen.
• n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
• prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
• interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
• interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
• n. (typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form…

communicate

• v. To impart.
• v. To share.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

delivery

• n. The act of conveying something.
• n. The item which has been conveyed.
• n. The act of giving birth.
• n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
• n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
• n. The manner of speaking.
• n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
• n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
• n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
• n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

destination

• n. (archaic) The act of destining or appointing.
• n. Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
• n. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

direct

• adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
• adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
• adj. Straightforward; sincere.
• adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
• adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
• adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
• adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
• adv. Directly.
• v. To manage, control, steer.
• v. To aim (something) at (something else).
• v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
• v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
• v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

employ

• n. The state of being an employee; employment.
• v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
• v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
• v. To make busy.

handle

• n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
• n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
• n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
• n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
• n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
• n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
• n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
• n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
• n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
• v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
• v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
• v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
• v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
• v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
• v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

initiate

• adj. (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
• adj. (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
• n. A new member of an organization.
• n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
• v. (transitive) To begin; to start.
• v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• v. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

instruction

• n. (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
• n. (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
• n. (countable) An order or command.
• n. (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
• n. A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.

intercommunicate

• v. To communicate, one with another.
• v. To be interconnected.

label

• n. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
• n. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
• n. (music) A company that sells records.
• n. (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
• n. (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
• n. (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
• n. (obsolete) A tassel.
• n. A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
• n. A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
• n. (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
• n. In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
• v. (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
• v. (transitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
• v. (biochemistry) To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of…
• v. (biochemistry) To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance…

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

plow

• n. (US) Alternative spelling of plough.
• v. (US) Alternative spelling of plough.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

savoir-faire

• n. The ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

speech

• n. (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations…
• n. (countable) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
• n. A style of speaking.
• n. (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech.
• n. A dialect or language.
• n. Talk; mention; rumour.

stance

• n. The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.
• n. One’s opinion or point of view.
• n. (Scotland) A station; a position; a site; a stopping place for buses at a bus station.
• n. (obsolete) A stanza.

tact

• n. The sense of touch; feeling.
• n. (music) The stroke in beating time.
• n. Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating…
• n. The ability to deal with embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will…
• n. (psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or…
• v. (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).

tactfulness

• n. The state or quality of being tactful.

target

• n. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
• n. A goal or objective.
• n. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
• n. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually…
• n. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
• n. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
• n. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
• n. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to…
• n. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
• n. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
• n. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer,…
• n. (Britain, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast…
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
• v. (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
• v. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

use

• n. The act of using.
• n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
• n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
• n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
• n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
• n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
• n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
• n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
• v. To accustom; to habituate.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
• v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
• v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
• v. (transitive) To exploit.
• v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
• v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
• v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
• v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
• v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

utilise

• v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
• v. To make use of; to use.
• v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
• v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.

utilize

• v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.