Synonyms of the word bunker


BUNKERCONTAINER - DUGOUT - FORTIFICATION - FUEL - HAZARD - HIT - MUNITION - SHIFT - TRANSFER - TRAP

bunker

  • n. (military) A hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants…
  • n. (Britain) A large container or bin for storing coal, often built outside in the yard of a house. Now rare,…
  • n. (nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine. [Also, by extension] the quantity…
  • n. (golf) A sand-filled hollow on a golf course.
  • n. (paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
  • n. (Scotland) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
  • n. (Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
  • n. A fish, the menhaden.
  • v. (nautical) To load a vessel with oil or coal for the engine.
  • v. (golf) To hit a golf ball into a bunker.
  • v. (paintball) To fire constantly at a hiding opponent, preventing them from firing at other players and…

container

  • n. Someone who contains; something that contains.
  • n. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
  • n. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
  • n. (by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
  • n. (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
  • n. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

dugout

  • n. (nautical) a canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
  • n. a pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.
  • n. a sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and…
  • n. a device used to smoke marijuana.
  • n. (Canadian Prairies) A pit used to catch and store rainwater or runoff.

fortification

  • n. The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
  • n. That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified…
  • n. An increase in effectiveness, as by adding ingredients.

fuel

  • n. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
  • n. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
  • n. (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
  • v. To provide with fuel.
  • v. To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.

hazard

  • n. (historical) A type of game played with dice.
  • n. Chance.
  • n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
  • n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
  • n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
  • n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing…
  • n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
  • v. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  • v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

hit

  • v. (heading, physical) To strike.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
  • v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
  • v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
  • v. (heading, games) To make a play.
  • v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
  • n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
  • n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
  • n. An attack on a location, person or people.
  • n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
  • n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
  • n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  • n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
  • n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
  • n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
  • n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
  • n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
  • adj. Designating of a popular song.
  • pron. (dialectal) It.

munition

  • n. (chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural, military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast…
  • n. (rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with munitions.

shift

  • n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
  • n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
  • n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
  • n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
  • n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
  • n. (computing) A bit shift.
  • n. (baseball) The infield shift.
  • n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
  • n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
  • n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
  • n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
  • n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
  • v. (transitive) To change, swap.
  • v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
  • v. (intransitive) To change position.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
  • v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
  • v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
  • v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose of.
  • v. (intransitive) To hurry.
  • v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
  • v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
  • v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

transfer

  • v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
  • v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
  • v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
  • n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  • n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
  • n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

trap

  • n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a…
  • n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
  • n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
  • n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
  • n. The game of trapball itself.
  • n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
  • n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents…
  • n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
  • n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
  • n. (slang) A person's mouth.
  • n. (in the plural) Belongings.
  • n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
  • n. (sports) Trapshooting.
  • n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  • n. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
  • n. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner…
  • n. (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
  • n. A kind of movable stepladder.
  • n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
  • v. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
  • v. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
  • v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
  • v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
  • v. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell narcotics, especially in a public…
  • v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
  • n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap…
  • v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
  • n. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

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