Synonyms of the word

buck

• n. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the…
• n. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
• n. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
• n. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
• n. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
• n. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
• n. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
• n. (US, slang) One hundred.
• n. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object,…
• n. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
• n. (finance, jargon) One million dollars.
• n. (informal) A euro.
• n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
• n. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal…
• n. (African American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
• v. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
• v. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down…
• v. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
• v. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together,…
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal;…
• v. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb…
• v. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
• v. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter.
• n. (Scotland) The beech tree.
• n. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
• n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
• v. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
• v. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
• v. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

author

• n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
• n. Someone who writes books for a living.
• n. The works of an author or authors.
• v. (chiefly US) To create a work as its author.

banknote

• n. A piece of paper currency.
• n. (historical) A demand note issued by private banks presumably backed up by gold or silver coin.

bill

• n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later…
• n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
• n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
• n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
• n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
• v. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
• n. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle,…
• n. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
• n. (of a hat or cap) The peak or brim, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
• v. (obsolete) To peck.
• v. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
• n. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill…
• n. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain…
• n. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
• n. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the…
• n. (US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
• n. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
• n. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play,…
• n. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without…
• n. A set of items presented together.
• v. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
• v. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
• n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

clam

• n. A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya…
• n. Strong pincers or forceps.
• n. A kind of vise, usually of wood.
• n. (US, slang) A dollar (usually used in the plural).
• n. (slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
• v. To dig for clams.
• n. A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
• v. To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
• adj. (obsolete) clammy.
• n. clamminess; moisture.
• v. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
• v. To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

dollar

• n. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United…
• n. (by extension) Money generally.
• n. (Britain, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of…
• n. (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish…

endeavor

• n. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
• n. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
• v. (obsolete) To exert oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
• v. To work with purpose.

endeavour

• n. British standard spelling of endeavor.
• v. British standard spelling of endeavor.

eutherian

• adj. belonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals…
• n. a eutherian animal.

frame

• v. (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
• v. (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent…
• v. (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan;…
• v. (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
• v. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
• v. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
• v. (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
• v. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
• v. (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
• n. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
• n. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
• n. The structure of a person's body.
• n. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
• n. A piece of photographic film containing an image.
• n. A context for understanding or interpretation.
• n. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win)…
• n. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
• n. (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but…
• n. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although…
• n. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
• n. (film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of…
• n. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
• n. (baseball, slang) An inning.
• n. (engineering, dated, chiefly Britain) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
• n. (dated) frame of mind; disposition.
• n. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
• n. (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game.
• n. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
• n. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.

framework

• n. (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
• n. (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
• n. (figuratively, especially in computing) A basic conceptual structure.
• n. (literally) The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task…

framing

• v. present participle of frame.

greenback

• n. (US) Any bill that is legal tender in the US (originally printed with green and black ink) issued by the…
• n. The United States dollar.
• n. A unit of American currency issued during the Civil War by the Treasury Department.

hasten

• v. To move in a quick fashion.
• v. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
• v. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

hie

• v. (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
• v. (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
• n. Haste; diligence.

hitch

• n. A sudden pull.
• n. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope . See List of hitch knots…
• n. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
• n. (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
• n. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element; a catch.
• n. A period of time. Most often refers to time spent in the military.
• v. (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
• v. (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
• v. (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
• v. (informal, transitive) contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
• v. (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
• v. (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
• v. (Britain) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

horse

• n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
• n. Equipment with legs.
• n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
• n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course…
• n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
• n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss…
• n. (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
• n. (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery.
• v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".).
• v. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
• v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
• v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
• v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
• v. To take or carry on the back.
• v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such…
• n. (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin (drug).

hotfoot

• n. (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting…
• adv. (Britain) hastily; without delay.

jerk

• n. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
• n. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) A dull or stupid person.
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered,…
• n. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
• n. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
• n. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
• v. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
• v. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
• v. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
• v. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
• v. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
• v. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
• n. (Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
• n. (Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
• v. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

missionary

• n. One who is sent on a mission.
• n. A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed.
• n. (pejorative) A religious messenger.
• n. (uncountable) A common position for undertaking sexual intercourse.
• adj. Relating to a (religious) mission.

missioner

• n. A missionary.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

oppose

• v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc…
• v. To object to.
• v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
• v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
• v. To compete with; to strive against.

placental

• adj. Of or pertaining to the placenta, or to the Placentalia.
• adj. Having a placenta.
• n. Any animal that is a member of the Placentalia.

race

• n. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective…
• n. (computing) A race condition.
• n. A progressive movement toward a goal.
• n. A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
• n. A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
• n. Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
• n. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
• n. Travels, runs, or journeys.
• n. The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
• v. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
• v. (transitive) To compete against in such a race.
• v. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed.
• v. (intransitive) Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
• n. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics.
• n. (taxonomy) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly…
• n. A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
• n. (figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with…
• n. (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities,…
• n. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
• n. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

react

• v. (transitive) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
• v. (physics) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force.
• v. (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two…
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.

rush

• n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
• n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
• n. The merest trifle; a straw.
• n. A sudden forward motion.
• n. A surge.
• n. General haste.
• n. A rapid, noisy flow.
• n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
• n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
• n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
• n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
• n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
• n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
• n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
• v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
• v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
• v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
• v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
• v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
• adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

sawbuck

• n. a framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse.
• n. (US, slang) a ten-dollar bill.

sawhorse

• n. A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.

shoot

• v. To launch a projectile.
• v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
• v. (sports) To act or achieve.
• v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
• v. To develop, move forward.
• v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
• v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
• n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
• n. A photography session.
• n. A hunt or shooting competition.
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
• n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
• n. A rush of water; a rapid.
• n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• n. A shoat; a young pig.
• n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
• interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

speed

• n. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity.
• n. The rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the…
• n. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
• n. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
• n. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
• n. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a…
• n. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
• n. (slang) Personal preference.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
• v. (intransitive) To go fast.
• v. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
• v. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
• v. (obsolete) To be expedient.
• v. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
• v. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
• v. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
• v. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

strive

• v. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
• v. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
• v. To vie; to compete as a rival.
• n. (obsolete) An effort; a striving.
• n. (obsolete) strife; contention.

tear

• v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
• v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
• v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
• v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
• v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
• v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
• v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
• v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
• n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
• n. (slang) A rampage.
• n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
• n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
• n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
• n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
• v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

writer

• n. A person who writes, or produces literary work.
• n. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a…
• n. Anything that writes or produces output.