Synonyms of the word

backup

• n. A reserve or substitute.
• n. (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover…
• n. An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement…
• n. (law enforcement) reinforcements.
• adj. Standby, reserve or extra.
• adj. (computing) That is intended as a backup.
• v. Misspelling of back up.

accompaniment

• n. (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music,…
• n. That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness…

accretion

• n. The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession…
• n. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.
• n. Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
• n. Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
• n. (biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
• n. (geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
• n. (law) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of…
• n. (law) Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same…

accumulation

• n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
• n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
• n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
• n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
• n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
• n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

approval

• n. An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that…
• n. An expression of favorable acceptance and encouragement; a compliment that also condones.
• n. (especially philately) Something mailed by a seller to a collector to match his stated interests; he can…

approving

• adj. Expressing approbation; commending.
• v. present participle of approve.

backing

• n. Support, especially financial.
• n. A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
• n. (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
• adj. (music) That which provides support for the main performer.
• v. present participle of back.

blessing

• n. Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
• n. A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
• n. Good fortune.
• n. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.
• n. The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
• n. A thing one is glad of.
• n. A prayer before a meal; grace.
• n. A group of unicorns.

championship

• n. (sports) A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.
• n. The position of champion, or winner.
• n. Defense or support of some cause.

compeer

• n. (obsolete) the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone…
• v. To be equal with; to match.

duplicate

• adj. Being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage…
• adj. (games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other…
• v. to make a copy of.
• v. to do repeatedly; to do again.
• v. to produce something equal to.
• n. One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
• n. (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars,…
• n. The game of duplicate bridge.
• n. The game of duplicate Scrabble.
• n. (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the…

duplication

• n. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
• n. (biology) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.

equal

• adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
• adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
• adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
• adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
• adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
• v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
• v. To be equivalent to; to match.
• v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
• n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
• n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

fill-in

• n. A temporary replacement for another.

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

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.

patronage

• n. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
• n. Customers collectively; clientele; business.
• n. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
• n. (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political…
• n. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
• n. The right of nomination to political office.
• n. (Britain, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
• v. (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
• v. (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.

peer

• v. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
• v. To come in sight; to appear.
• n. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
• n. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
• n. A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges…
• n. A comrade; a companion; an associate.
• v. To make equal in rank.
• v. (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to…
• n. Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

relief

• n. The removal of stress or discomfort.
• n. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
• n. The person who takes over a shift for another.
• n. Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
• n. (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
• n. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; short for tax relief.
• n. A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
• n. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation…
• n. The difference of elevations on a surface.
• adj. (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
• adj. Of or used in letterpress.

reliever

• n. (baseball) A relief pitcher.
• n. Someone who fills in for another.

stand-in

• n. A person of similar size and shape to an actor that "stands-in" for the actor during the lengthy process…
• n. A substitute.

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

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.

voice

• n. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered…
• n. (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; —…
• n. The tone or sound emitted by an object.
• n. The faculty or power of utterance.
• n. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
• n. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment.
• n. (archaic) Command; precept.
• n. One who speaks; a speaker.
• n. (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means…
• n. (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
• n. (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages…
• v. (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce.
• v. (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly.
• v. (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To clamor; to cry out.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to…
• v. (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.