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Synonyms of the word 
BUTT → ABUT - ADJOIN - ARSE - ASS - BACKSIDE - BARREL - BEHIND - BORDER - BOTTOM - BUM - BUNS - BUNT - BUTTOCKS - CAN - CASK - CIGARET - CIGARETTE - COMPONENT - CONTACT - DERRIERE - DUPE - EDGE - FAG - FANNY - FUNDAMENT - GOAT - HINDQUARTERS - JOINT - KEISTER - LAUGHINGSTOCK - LAY - MARCH - MEET - NATES - PART - PLACE - PORTION - POSE - POSITION - POSTERIOR - PRAT - PUT - REAR - RUMP - SEAT - SET - SMOKE - STERN - STOCK - STOOGE - STRIKE - STUB - TAIL - TARGET - TOUCH - TUSH - VICTIMbutt- n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
- n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
- n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
- n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
- n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- n. A thrust in fencing.
- n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
- n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
- n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
- n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
abut- v. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent; to project;…
- v. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to; to support by an abutment.
- v. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
adjoin- v. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
- v. (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field,…
arse- n. (dated in New England, current in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, now slang) The buttocks or…
- n. (chiefly Britain, pejorative slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
- v. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.
ass- n. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus africanus, often domesticated and…
- n. (slang) A stupid person.
- n. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks.
- n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sex.
- n. (vulgar, slang) Anus.
- n. (slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
- n. (slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness.
- n. (slang) One's self or person, chiefly their body.
backside- n. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly.
- n. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
barrel- n. (countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of…
- n. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law…
- n. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;.
- n. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- n. (archaic) A tube.
- n. (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
- n. (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a…
- n. (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- n. (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
- n. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- n. (obsolete) A jar.
- n. (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory…
- v. (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- v. (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
behind- prep. At the back of; positioned with something else in front of.
- prep. To the back of.
- prep. After, time- or motion-wise.
- prep. responsible for.
- prep. In support of.
- prep. Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
- adv. At the back part; in the rear.
- adv. Toward the back part or rear; backward.
- adv. Overdue, in arrears.
- adv. Slow; of a watch or clock.
- adv. existing afterwards.
- adv. Backward in time or order of succession; past.
- adv. Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- adv. (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
- n. the rear, back-end.
- n. butt, the buttocks, bottom.
- n. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
- n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
- n. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick…
border- n. The outer edge of something.
- n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- n. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance…
- v. (transitive) To put a border on something.
- v. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
- v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
- v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
bottom- n. The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.
- n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- n. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
- n. The buttocks or anus.
- n. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- n. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always…
- n. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
- n. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
- n. (physics) A bottom quark.
- n. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- n. An abyss.
- n. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
- n. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
- v. To fall to the lowest point.
- v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest…
- v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
- v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point…
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
- v. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
- v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- v. To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
- adj. The lowest or last place or position.
bum- n. The buttocks.
- n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
- n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
- v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
- n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
- n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
- n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
- n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
- v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
- adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
- adj. Unfair.
- adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
- adj. Unpleasant.
- v. To depress; to make unhappy.
- n. (dated) A humming noise.
- v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.
buns- n. plural of bun.
- n. (informal) buttocks.
bunt- n. (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center…
- n. A push or shove; a butt.
- n. (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes…
- n. (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
- n. (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
- n. A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.
- v. (transitive, baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- v. (intransitive, baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- v. (intransitive, aviation) to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
- v. (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
- v. (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
buttockscan- v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
- v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
- n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
- n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
- n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
- n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
- n. (slang) Jail or prison.
- n. (slang) Headphones.
- n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
- n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
- v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
- v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- v. To shut up.
- v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
cask- n. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
- n. (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
- v. To put into a cask.
cigaret- n. Dated form of cigarette.
cigarette- n. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
- v. (slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.
component- n. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part…
- adj. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
- adj. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.
contact- n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
- n. The establishment of communication (with).
- n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
- n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
- n. (informal) A contact lens.
- n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
- n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
- n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
- v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
- v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.
derriere- n. (humorous) bottom, bum.
dupe- n. A person who has been deceived.
- v. To swindle, deceive, or trick.
- n. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
- n. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
- n. (informal) A duplicate.
- v. (transitive) To duplicate.
edge- n. The boundary line of a surface.
- n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
- n. An advantage.
- n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
- n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
- n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
- v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
- v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
fag- n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
- n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
- n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
- n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
- v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
- v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
- v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
- n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
- n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
fanny- n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia.
- n. (Canada, US, informal) The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
- n. (Britain, vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- n. (Britain, vulgar) A woman, or women generally, as a sexual object(s).
- n. (Britain, naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot.
fundament- n. Foundation.
- n. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
- n. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
goat- n. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
- n. (slang) A lecherous man.
- n. (informal) A scapegoat.
- n. Nickname for the Pontiac GTO.
- v. (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
- v. (transitive) To scapegoat.
hindquarters- n. plural of hindquarter.
joint- adj. Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
- n. The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- n. The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- n. (anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be…
- n. The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- n. A cut of meat.
- n. The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- n. (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- n. (chiefly US slang, somewhat pejorative) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality…
- n. (slang, with the definite article) prison.
- n. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- v. (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together.
- v. (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- v. (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- v. (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into…
- v. (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
keister- n. (slang) The anus or buttocks.
- n. (slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.
- n. (slang) A suitcase; a satchel.
- v. (slang) To conceal something in one's rectum.
laughingstock- n. Alternative spelling of laughing stock.
lay- v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
- v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
- v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
- v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- v. (law) To state; to allege.
- v. (military) To point; to aim.
- v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- v. To apply; to put.
- v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
- v. To present or offer.
- n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- n. A share of the profits in a business.
- n. The direction a rope is twisted.
- n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
- n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
- n. A lake.
- adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
- adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
- adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
- v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
- n. (obsolete) A law.
- n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
- v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
march- n. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
- n. A political rally or parade.
- n. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music).
- n. Steady forward movement or progression.
- n. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
- v. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- v. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
- v. To go to war; to make military advances.
- n. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
- n. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- n. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
- v. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers.
- n. (obsolete) Smallage.
meet- v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
- v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
- v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
- v. To satisfy; to comply with.
- v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
- n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
- n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
- n. A meeting.
- n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
- n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
- adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
nates- n. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals;…
- n. The buttocks.
- n. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
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.
place- n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
- n. A location or position in space.
- n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
- n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
- n. A frame of mind.
- n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
- n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
- n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
- n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
- v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
- v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
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.
pose- n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
- v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
- v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
- v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
- n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
- n. Affectation.
- v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
- v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
- v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).
position- n. A place or location.
- n. A post of employment; a job.
- n. A status or rank.
- n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
- n. A posture.
- n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
- n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
- n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- v. To put into place.
posterior- adj. Located behind, or towards the rear of an object.
- adj. Following in order or in time.
- adj. (anatomy) Nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
- adj. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
- n. (euphemistic) The buttocks.
prat- n. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
- adj. (obsolete) Cunning, astute.
- n. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
- n. (Britain, slang) A fool.
- n. (slang) The female genitals.
put- v. To place something somewhere.
- v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
- v. To express something in a certain manner.
- v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
- v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
- v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
- n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
- n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- n. An old card game.
- n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
- n. (obsolete) A prostitute.
rear- v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
- v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
- v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
- v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
- v. (transitive) To move; stir.
- v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
- v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
- adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
- adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
- adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
- adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
- n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
- n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
- v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).
rump- n. The hindquarters of an animal.
- n. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
- n. The buttocks.
- n. Remnant, as in rump parliament.
seat- n. Something to be sat upon.
- n. A location or site.
- n. The starting point of a fire.
- n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
- v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
- v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
- v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
- v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- v. To put a seat or bottom in.
set- v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
- v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
- v. (transitive) To adjust.
- v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
- v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
- v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- v. (intransitive) To solidify.
- v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
- v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- v. To place or fix in a setting.
- v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
- v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
- v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
- n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
- n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
- n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
- n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
- n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
- n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
- n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
- n. A young oyster when first attached.
- n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
- n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- adj. Fixed in position.
- adj. Rigid, solidified.
- adj. Ready, prepared.
- adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
- adj. Prearranged.
- adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
- adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- n. A rudimentary fruit.
- n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
- n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- n. An object made up of several parts.
- n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
- n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- n. The scenery for a film or play.
- n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
- v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.
smoke- n. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- n. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- n. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.).
- n. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of…
- n. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory,…
- n. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke…
- n. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- n. (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield…
- n. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- v. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- v. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- v. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- v. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
- v. (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
- v. (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.
- v. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
- v. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
- v. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- v. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- v. To suffer severely; to be punished.
- v. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- adj. Of the colour known as smoke.
- adj. Made of or with smoke.
stern- adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
- adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
- n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
- n. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
- n. The hinder part of anything.
- n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- n. A bird, the black tern.
stock- n. A store or supply.
- n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an…
- n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- n. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
- n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
- n. A bar, stick or rod.
- n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle.
- n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical…
- n. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew…
- n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as…
- n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- n. (Britain, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the…
- n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- n. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- n. The beater of a fulling mill.
- v. To have on hand for sale.
- v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- v. To put in the stocks as punishment.
- v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
- adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having…
- adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
stooge- n. One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
- n. (comedy) A straight man.
- n. A secret informant for police.
- n. (psychology) A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study…
- v. (intransitive) To act as a straight man.
strike- v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
- v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
- v. To touch; to act by appulse.
- v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
- v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
- v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- v. To make and ratify.
- v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
- v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
- v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
- v. To balance (a ledger or account).
- n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
- n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
- n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
- n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
- n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
- n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
- n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
- n. The discovery of a source of something.
- n. A strike plate.
stub- n. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- n. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- n. (computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement…
- n. (computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing…
- n. (wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- n. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog.
- n. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract.
- n. (obsolete) A log; a block; a blockhead.
- n. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- n. A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
- n. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- v. To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- v. To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
- v. To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
tail- n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
- n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
- n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
- n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- n. (mining) A tailing.
- n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
- v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
- v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- v. To pull or draw by the tail.
- adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
- n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
target- n. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- n. A goal or objective.
- n. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- n. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually…
- n. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- n. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- n. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- n. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to…
- n. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- n. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- n. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer,…
- n. (Britain, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast…
- n. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
- n. (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
- v. (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
- v. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.
touch- v. Primarily physical senses.
- v. Primarily non-physical senses.
- v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
- v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
- v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- n. A little bit; a small amount.
- n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
- n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
- n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
- n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
- n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
- n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
- n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
- n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
- n. The children's game of tag.
- n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.
tush- n. (now dialectal) A tusk.
- n. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
- n. (US, colloquial) The buttocks.
- interj. An exclamation of contempt or rebuke.
- n. (Britain, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
- v. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
- n. (Britain, obsolete slang) Alternative form of tosheroon.
victim- n. Anyone who is harmed by another.
- n. (original sense) A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in…
- n. An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.).
- n. A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.
- n. An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.
- n. (narratology) A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain.
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