Synonyms of the word

backbone

• n. The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down…
• n. Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
• n. Courage, fortitude, or strength.

anchor

• n. (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
• n. (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain…
• n. (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass…
• n. (heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
• n. Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold…
• n. (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
• n. (television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
• n. (athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
• n. (archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to…
• n. (economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
• n. (figuratively) That which gives stability or security.
• n. (architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
• n. (architecture) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain…
• n. One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
• n. One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
• v. To hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point.
• v. To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
• v. To stop; to fix or rest.
• v. To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
• v. To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
• v. To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.

back

• adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
• adj. (not comparable) Not current.
• adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
• adj. In arrear; overdue.
• adj. Moving or operating backward.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
• adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
• adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
• adv. In a manner that impedes.
• adv. In a reciprocal manner.
• n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest…
• n. That which is farthest away from the front.
• n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
• n. A support or resource in reserve.
• n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
• n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
• n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
• n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
• v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
• v. (transitive) To support.
• v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise…
• v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to…
• v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
• v. (Britain, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
• v. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
• v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
• v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
• v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
• v. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend…
• v. To row backward with (oars).
• n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers,…
• n. A ferryboat.

connecter

• n. A connector.

connection

• n. (uncountable) The act of connecting.
• n. The point at which two or more things are connected.
• n. A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
• n. An established communications or transportation link.
• n. (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
• n. A kinship relationship between people.
• n. (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is…

connective

• adj. Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
• n. That which connects.
• n. (logic) A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
• n. (grammar) A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
• n. (botany) The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
• n. (anatomy, zoology) A connective tissue.

connector

• n. One who connects.
• n. A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together…
• n. A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange…
• n. (computing) A line connecting two shapes in presentation software.
• n. (computing) A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database…

connexion

• n. (chiefly Britain) Dated spelling of connection.
• n. (Britain, religion, historical) A circuit of prayer groups who employed travelling ministers alongside…

fortitude

• n. Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
• n. (archaic) Physical strength.

grit

• n. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such…
• n. Inedible particles in food.
• n. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number…
• n. (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone,…
• n. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
• v. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
• v. To cover with grit.
• v. To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
• n. (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

gumption

• n. (Britain) common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
• n. (US) Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.
• n. (US) Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness, guts; spunk; initiative.

guts

• n. plural of gut.
• n. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
• n. (slang) Courage; determination.
• n. (slang) Content, substance.
• n. (in the plural) The essential, core parts.
• v. (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).

keystone

• n. (architecture) The top stone of an arch.
• n. Something on which other things depend for support.
• n. A native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania.
• v. (transitive) To distort (an image) by projecting it onto a surface at an angle, which for example causes…

linchpin

• n. A pin inserted through holes at the end of an axle, so as to secure a wheel.
• n. (figuratively) A central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical…

lynchpin

• n. a pin inserted through holes at the end of an axle, so as to secure a wheel.
• n. (figuratively) a central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical…

mainstay

• n. A chief support.
• n. Someone or something that can be depended on to make a regular contribution.
• n. (nautical) A stabilising rope from the top of the mainmast to the bottom of the foremast.

moxie

• n. nerve, spirit, backbone, determination and fortitude, courage, force of character.
• n. verve, vigor, pep, energy, initiative.
• n. wit, skill, know-how.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

rachis

• n. (botany) The main shaft of either a compound leaf, head of grain, or fern frond.
• n. (zoology, anatomy) The spine or the vertebrae of the spine.
• n. (ornithology) The central shaft of a feather.

sand

• n. (uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally,…
• n. (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand.
• n. (uncountable, dated, circa 1920) Personal courage.
• n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
• n. A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.
• n. (countable, figuratively) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to…
• adj. Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
• v. (transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
• v. (transitive) To cover with sand.
• v. (transitive, historical) To blot ink using sand.
• n. (colloquial) A sandpiper.

spine

• n. The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to…
• n. Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures…
• n. A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
• n. (figuratively) Courage or assertiveness.
• n. The stiffness of an arrow.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.