Synonyms of the word

bet

• n. A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the…
• n. A degree of certainty.
• v. To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
• v. To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
• v. (poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the…
• n. Alternative form of beth.
• prep. (knitting) between.

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

bank

• n. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
• n. A branch office of such an institution.
• n. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
• n. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
• n. (gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and…
• n. (slang, uncountable) money; profit.
• n. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
• n. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
• n. A device used to store coins or currency.
• v. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution.
• v. (transitive) To put into a bank.
• n. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
• n. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand,…
• n. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
• n. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
• n. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
• n. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
• n. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
• n. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
• n. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
• v. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
• v. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
• v. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
• n. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
• n. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
• v. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
• n. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
• n. A bench or seat for judges in court.
• n. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law,…
• n. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
• n. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
• n. (uncountable) slang for money.

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…

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…

count

• v. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
• v. (transitive) To determine the number (of objects in a group).
• v. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
• v. (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
• v. (transitive) To consider something an example of something.
• v. (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
• v. (Britain, law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
• n. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
• n. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
• n. A countdown.
• n. (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
• n. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
• n. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
• n. The male ruler of a county.
• n. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.

depend

• v. (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something…
• v. (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
• v. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) To serve; to attend;…
• v. (now literary) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
• v. (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.

forebode

• v. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
• v. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is…
• n. (obsolete) prognostication; presage.

foretell

• v. To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.

gamble

• n. A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain.
• n. A risky venture.
• v. To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome.
• v. To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain.
• v. (transitive) To risk (something) for potential gain.
• v. To interact with equipment at a casino.

gambling

• v. present participle of gamble.
• n. An activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill…

gaming

• v. present participle of game.
• n. The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.
• n. Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

look

• v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
• v. To appear, to seem.
• v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
• v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
• v. To face or present a view.
• v. To expect or anticipate.
• v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
• v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
• v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
• v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
• interj. Pay attention.
• n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
• n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
• n. A facial expression.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

predict

• v. (transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge…
• v. (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
• v. (intransitive) To make predictions.
• v. (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
• n. (obsolete) A prediction.

prognosticate

• v. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
• v. (transitive) To presage, betoken.

promise

• n. (countable) An oath or affirmation; a vow.
• n. (countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render…
• n. (uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
• n. (countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has…
• n. (countable, obsolete) Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.
• v. (transitive) To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.
• v. (intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

reckon

• v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
• v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
• v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
• v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
• v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
• v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…

rely

• v. (with on or upon, formerly also with in) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity,…

stake

• n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven…
• n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer,…
• n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
• n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
• n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
• n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths,…
• n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical…
• v. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
• v. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
• v. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business…

stakes

• n. plural of stake.
• n. The money wagered in gambling.
• n. Risks.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stake.

swear

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To take an oath.
• v. (intransitive) To use offensive language.
• n. A swear word.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Top-heavy; too high.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Niggardly.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
• v. (Britain dialectal) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.

trust

• n. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
• n. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
• n. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
• n. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
• n. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
• n. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
• n. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
• n. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit…
• n. (law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose…
• n. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities…
• n. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
• v. (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
• v. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
• v. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object).
• v. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
• v. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
• v. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
• v. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
• v. (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
• adj. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
• adj. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
• adj. (law) of or relating to a trust.

wager

• n. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake;…
• n. (law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall…
• n. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
• v. (transitive) To bet something; to put it up as collateral.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To suppose; to dare say.
• n. Agent noun of wage; one who wages.