Synonyms of the word

butterfly

• n. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally…
• n. (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
• n. The butterfly stroke.
• n. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
• v. (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting…
• v. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound)…

coquet

• n. A flirtatious female; a coquette.
• n. (obsolete) A flirtatious male.
• v. To act as a flirt or coquet.
• v. To waste time; to dally.
• v. To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard,…

coquette

• n. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
• v. Alternative form of coquet.

dally

• v. To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
• v. To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare…
• v. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
• v. To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel…
• n. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

dart

• n. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed…
• n. Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
• n. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
• n. A sudden or fast movement.
• n. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
• n. A fish; the dace.
• n. (in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
• n. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
• v. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
• v. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
• v. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
• v. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

fleet

• n. A group of vessels or vehicles.
• n. Any group of associated items.
• n. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of…
• n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear-admiral's…
• n. (obsolete) A flood; a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, a river subject to the tide. cognate to Low German…
• n. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
• v. (obsolete) To float.
• v. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
• v. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
• v. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of…
• v. (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
• v. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
• v. To take the cream from; to skim.
• adj. (literary) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble;…
• adj. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

flirt

• n. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.
• n. One who flirts.
• n. An act of flirting.
• v. (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
• v. (intransitive) To jeer at; to mock.
• v. (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
• v. (transitive) To blurt out.
• v. (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in…
• v. (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
• adj. pert; wanton.

flit

• n. A fluttering or darting movement.
• n. (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
• n. (slang) A homosexual.
• v. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
• v. To move quickly from one location to another.
• v. (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
• v. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
• adj. (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.

flutter

• v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
• v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the…
• v. (transitive) To cause something to flap.
• v. (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
• n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
• n. A state of agitation.
• n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
• n. (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
• n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

lepidopteran

• n. Any insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths.
• adj. Characteristic of these insects.

lepidopteron

• n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Lepidoptera.

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

open

• adj. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
• adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
• adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
• adj. (comparable) Receptive.
• adj. (not comparable) Public.
• adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
• adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
• adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
• adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
• adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
• adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty…
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
• adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
• adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
• adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects…
• v. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
• v. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
• v. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
• v. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
• v. (intransitive) To become open.
• v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
• v. To enter upon; to begin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
• v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
• v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
• v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
• n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
• n. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
• n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
• n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

philander

• n. A lover.
• n. A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, Caluromys philander, formerly Didelphis philander.
• n. An Australian bandicoot, greater bilby or bilby, Macrotis lagotis, formerly Perameles lagotis.
• v. To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

romance

• n. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
• n. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
• n. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
• n. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
• n. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
• n. A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
• n. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
• n. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
• n. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
• n. (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
• v. Woo; court.
• v. (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

unfold

• v. To undo a folding.
• v. (intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To reveal.
• v. To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details,…
• v. To release from a fold or pen.
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite…