Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

aspire

• v. (intransitive) To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
• v. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

bearing

• adj. That which bears (whatever this combining form combines with).
• adj. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
• n. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
• n. (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or…
• n. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
• n. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
• n. (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
• n. (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
• n. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
• n. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
• n. (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
• v. present participle of bear.

calculate

• v. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical…
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
• v. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
• v. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other…
• v. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of…

design

• n. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
• n. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
• n. The composition of a work of art.
• n. Intention or plot.
• n. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
• n. The art of designing.
• v. (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

designate

• adj. Designated; appointed; chosen.
• v. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description;…
• v. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
• v. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the…

destine

• v. To preordain.
• v. To assign something (especially finance) for a particular use.
• v. To have a particular destination.

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.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

goal

• n. A result that one is attempting to achieve.
• n. In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
• n. The act of placing the object into the goal.
• n. A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
• n. A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct…
• v. (Gaelic football, Australian rules) To score a goal.

guidance

• n. The act or process of guiding.
• n. Advice or counselling on some topic.
• n. Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

heading

• v. present participle of head.
• n. The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
• n. (nautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading)…
• n. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
• n. (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
• n. (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
• n. (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.

intend

• v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished);…
• v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
• v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
• v. To strain; make tense.
• v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
• v. To apply with energy.
• v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
• v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
• v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

intent

• n. A purpose; something that is intended.
• n. (law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
• adj. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
• adj. Engrossed.
• adj. Unwavering from a course of action.

intention

• n. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
• n. (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
• n. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention;…
• n. (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
• n. (obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.
• n. (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

object

• n. A thing that has physical existence.
• n. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
• n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase.…
• n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
• n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
• n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists…
• n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
• v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach;…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

objective

• adj. Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
• adj. Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
• adj. Based on observed facts.
• adj. (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
• adj. (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an…
• n. A material object that physically exists.
• n. A goal that is striven for.
• n. (grammar) The objective case; a noun or pronoun in that case.
• n. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

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).

plan

• n. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often…
• n. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
• n. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as…
• n. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
• n. A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an internet plan.
• v. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To create a plan for.
• v. (intransitive) To intend.
• v. See plan on.
• v. (intransitive) To make a plan.

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.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

propose

• v. (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
• v. (transitive) To intend.
• v. (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
• v. (obsolete) To set forth.
• n. (obsolete) An objective or aim.

purport

• v. To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
• v. (construed with to) To intend.
• n. import, intention or purpose.
• n. (obsolete) disguise; covering.

purpose

• n. An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
• n. A result that is desired; an intention.
• n. The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
• n. The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
• n. The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.
• n. (obsolete) Instance; example.
• v. (transitive) Have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
• v. (transitive) (passive) Designed for some purpose.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

specify

• v. (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
• v. (transitive) To include in a specification.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a specific result.

steering

• v. present participle of steer.
• n. Equipment used to control direction; something used to steer.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

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.

think

• v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
• v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
• v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• v. To presume; to venture.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
• v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

train

• n. Elongated portion.
• n. Connected sequence of people or things.
• v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
• v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
• v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
• v. To proceed in sequence.
• v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
• v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
• v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
• v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
• v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
• n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
• n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
• n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
• n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

way

• n. (heading) To do with a place or places.
• n. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
• n. A state or condition.
• n. (heading) Personal interaction.
• n. (paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft,…
• n. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
• n. A degree, an amount, a sense.
• n. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions…
• n. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large…
• n. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table…
• interj. (only in reply to no way) It is true.
• v. (obsolete) To travel.
• adv. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
• adv. (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
• adv. (informal) Far.
• n. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.