Synonyms of the word carry


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carry

  • v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
  • v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
  • v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
  • v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
  • v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
  • v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
  • v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
  • v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
  • v. To be pregnant (with).
  • v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
  • v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
  • v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
  • v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
  • v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
  • v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
  • v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
  • v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
  • n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
  • n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
  • n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

acquit

  • v. To declare or find not guilty; innocent.
  • v. (followed by “of”, formerly by “from”) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability,…
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for.
  • v. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite, to fulfill.
  • v. (reflexive) To clear oneself.
  • v. (reflexive) To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one’s part.
  • v. (obsolete) To release, set free, rescue.
  • v. (archaic) past participle of acquit.

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

advance

  • v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
  • v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
  • v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
  • v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
  • v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
  • v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
  • v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
  • v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
  • v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
  • n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
  • n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
  • n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
  • n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
  • adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
  • adj. Preceding.
  • adj. Forward.

appropriate

  • adj. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
  • adj. Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
  • adj. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially…
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
  • v. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
  • v. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all…
  • v. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation,…

bear

  • n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
  • n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
  • n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
  • n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
  • n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
  • n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
  • n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
  • v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
  • adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
  • v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
  • v. (transitive) To carry something.
  • v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
  • v. (transitive) To wear or display.
  • v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
  • v. (transitive) To put up with something.
  • v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
  • v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
  • v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
  • v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
  • v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
  • v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
  • v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
  • v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
  • v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
  • v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
  • v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
  • v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
  • v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
  • v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
  • n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
  • n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

behave

  • v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
  • v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

birth

  • n. (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
  • n. (countable) An instance of childbirth.
  • n. (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
  • n. (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
  • n. That which is born.
  • n. Misspelling of berth.
  • adj. A familial relationship established by childbirth.
  • v. (dated or regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
  • v. (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.

boost

  • n. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
  • n. (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers.
  • v. (transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
  • v. (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming…
  • v. (slang, transitive) To steal.
  • v. (Canada, transitive) To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle…
  • v. (transitive, medicine) To give a booster shot to.

booze

  • n. (slang, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage.
  • n. (slang, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.
  • v. (slang) To drink alcohol.

bring

  • v. (transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
  • v. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
  • v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
  • v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
  • interj. The sound of a telephone ringing.

broadcast

  • adj. cast or scattered widely, in all directions.
  • adj. transmitted, signalled, or communicated via radio waves or electronic means.
  • adj. relating to transmissions of messages or signals via radio waves or electronic means.
  • n. A transmission of a radio or television programme aired to be received by anyone with a receiver.
  • n. A programme (show, bulletin, documentary, and so on) so transmitted.
  • n. (dated) The act of scattering seed.
  • v. To transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means.
  • v. To transmit a message over a wide area.
  • v. To appear as speaker, presenter or performer in a broadcast program.
  • v. (archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
  • v. To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.

capture

  • n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
  • n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
  • n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
  • n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
  • n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
  • v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
  • v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
  • v. To reproduce convincingly.
  • v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

carry

  • v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
  • v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
  • v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
  • v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
  • v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
  • v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
  • v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
  • v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
  • v. To be pregnant (with).
  • v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
  • v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
  • v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
  • v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
  • v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
  • v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
  • v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
  • v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
  • n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
  • n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
  • n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

channel

  • n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
  • n. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
  • n. The navigable part of a river.
  • n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
  • n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
  • n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
  • n. (nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase…
  • n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
  • n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
  • n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
  • n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from…
  • n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair…
  • n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such…
  • n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined…
  • n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
  • n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading…
  • n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
  • n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
  • n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated…
  • n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
  • n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
  • v. To direct the flow of something.
  • v. To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal…
  • n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach…

circularise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of circularize.

circularize

  • v. (intransitive) To publicize something by publishing and distributing circulars.
  • v. (transitive) To distribute a circular or circulars to.
  • v. To canvass opinion by using a questionnaire.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) circular in shape.

circulate

  • v. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit.
  • v. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
  • v. to move from person to person, as at a party.
  • v. to spread or disseminate.
  • v. to become widely known.

communicate

  • v. To impart.
  • v. To share.

compensate

  • v. To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
  • v. To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy;…
  • v. To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

comport

  • v. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with).
  • v. (intransitive) To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord.
  • v. (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner).
  • n. (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; deportment.

conduct

  • n. The act or method of controlling or directing.
  • n. Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
  • n. The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
  • n. (of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
  • n. (obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
  • n. That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.
  • v. (transitive) To lead; to direct; to manage.
  • v. (transitive) (reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.
  • v. (transitive) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.).
  • v. (transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out (something organized).

conquer

  • v. To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
  • v. To overcome an abstract obstacle.
  • v. To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
  • v. To acquire by force of arms, win in war.

contain

  • v. (transitive) To hold inside.
  • v. (transitive) To include as a part.
  • v. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
  • v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

continue

  • v. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
  • v. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
  • v. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
  • v. (intransitive) To resume.
  • v. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
  • v. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
  • n. (video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.
  • n. (programming) a statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements…

convey

  • v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
  • v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
  • v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
  • v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
  • v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

conveyance

  • n. An act or instance of conveying.
  • n. A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
  • n. (law) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
  • v. (law, transitive) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.

correct

  • adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
  • adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
  • v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
  • v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
  • v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

counterbalance

  • n. (literally) A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance.
  • n. (figuratively) A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one.
  • v. (transitive) To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.
  • v. (transitive) To apply force in order to balance an opposite one.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To match or equal in effect, but acting in opposition.

deliver

  • v. To set free.
  • v. (process) To do with birth.
  • v. To free from or disburden of anything.
  • v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
  • v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
  • v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
  • v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
  • v. To discover; to show.
  • v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
  • v. (medicine) To administer a drug.

deport

  • v. (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
  • v. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.

diffuse

  • v. (transitive) To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or…
  • v. (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion…
  • adj. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

disperse

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
  • v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
  • adj. Scattered or spread out.

displace

  • v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  • v. (psycology) to repress.

disseminate

  • v. (transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc for growth and propagation, like seeds.
  • v. (intransitive) To become widespread.

distribute

  • v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
  • v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
  • v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
  • v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
  • v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
  • v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
  • v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
  • v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

do

  • v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  • v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
  • v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
  • v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
  • v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
  • v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  • v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  • v. To cook.
  • v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  • v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
  • v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  • v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
  • v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  • v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
  • v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
  • v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
  • v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  • v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  • v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  • v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
  • v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
  • v. (transitive) To take drugs.
  • v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
  • n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
  • n. (informal) A hairdo.
  • n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
  • n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
  • n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
  • n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
  • n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
  • adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

dribble

  • v. To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool.
  • v. To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle.
  • v. In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet.
  • v. (basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with…
  • v. To advance by dribbling.
  • v. (transitive) to let something fall in drips.
  • v. (transitive) in various ball games, to move the ball by repeated light kicks so as not to lose control…
  • v. (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
  • n. A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
  • n. A small amount of a liquid.
  • n. In sport, the act of dribbling.

drink

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
  • v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
  • v. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
  • v. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
  • n. A beverage.
  • n. A (served) alcoholic beverage.
  • n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
  • n. A type of beverage (usually mixed).
  • n. Alcoholic beverages in general.
  • n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
  • n. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink.

effect

  • n. The result or outcome of a cause. See usage notes below.
  • n. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
  • n. Execution; performance; realization; operation.
  • n. (cinematography) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect").
  • n. (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced…
  • n. (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
  • n. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
  • n. (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
  • n. (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
  • v. To make or bring about; to implement.
  • v. Misspelling of affect.

encourage

  • v. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
  • v. To spur on, strongly recommend.
  • v. To foster, give help or patronage.

execute

  • v. (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
  • v. (transitive) To perform.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become legally valid.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run.

expect

  • v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or…
  • v. To consider obligatory or required.
  • v. To consider reasonably due.
  • v. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

express

  • adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
  • adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
  • adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
  • adj. (retail) Being a merchant offering a smaller selection of goods than a full or complete dealer of the…
  • n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
  • n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
  • n. An express rifle.
  • n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
  • n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
  • n. An express office.
  • n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
  • v. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
  • v. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
  • v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
  • v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
  • n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
  • n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.

extend

  • v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
  • v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
  • v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
  • v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
  • v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
  • v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
  • v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

farm

  • n. (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
  • n. (obsolete) A banquet; feast.
  • n. (obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
  • n. (historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which…
  • n. (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
  • n. The body of farmers of public revenues.
  • n. The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
  • n. A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
  • n. A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising…
  • n. (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
  • n. (computing) A group of coordinated servers.
  • v. (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
  • v. (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
  • v. (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
  • v. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return…
  • v. (obsolete) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
  • v. (obsolete) To take at a certain rent or rate.
  • v. (video games, chiefly online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area…

feature

  • n. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
  • n. An important or main item.
  • n. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently…
  • n. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
  • n. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
  • n. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty,…
  • n. (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and…
  • n. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer,…
  • v. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
  • v. (transitive) To star, to contain.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

follow

  • v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
  • v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
  • v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
  • v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
  • v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
  • n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
  • n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

fuddle

  • v. To confuse or befuddle.
  • v. To intoxicate.
  • n. Intoxication.
  • n. Muddle, confusion.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring…

further

  • v. (transitive) To encourage growth.
  • v. To support progress or growth of something.
  • adj. comparative form of far: more far; of or pertaining to being distant, or of greater distance in degree…
  • adj. More, additional.
  • adv. comparative form of far: more far.
  • adv. (conjunctive) Also; in addition to.
  • adv. (location) At greater distance in space or time; farther.
  • adv. (conjunctive) Moreover; beyond what is already stated.

gestate

  • v. To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
  • v. (by analogy) To develop an idea.

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

grow

  • v. (ergative) To become bigger.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
  • v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
  • v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

have

  • v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
  • v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
  • v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
  • v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
  • v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
  • v. (transitive) To give birth to.
  • v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
  • v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
  • v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
  • v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
  • v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
  • v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
  • v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
  • v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
  • v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  • v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
  • v. To trick, to deceive.
  • v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
  • v. (transitive) To host someone.

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.

hold

  • adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To contain or store.
  • v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
  • v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
  • v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
  • v. To take place, to occur.
  • v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
  • v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
  • n. A grasp or grip.
  • n. A place where animals are held for safety.
  • n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
  • n. Something reserved or kept.
  • n. Power over someone or something.
  • n. The ability to persist.
  • n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
  • n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
  • n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
  • n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
  • n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
  • n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
  • n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
  • n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
  • n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
  • n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

impel

  • v. (transitive) To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast…
  • v. (transitive) To drive forward; to propel an object.

imply

  • v. (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence.
  • v. (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference.
  • v. (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct…
  • v. (archaic) to enfold, entangle.

include

  • v. To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
  • v. To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.
  • v. (obsolete) To enclose, confine.
  • v. (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
  • v. (programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.
  • n. (programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another…

influence

  • n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
  • n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
  • n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
  • n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
  • n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
  • n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
  • v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
  • v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

intercommunicate

  • v. To communicate, one with another.
  • v. To be interconnected.

involve

  • v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
  • v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
  • v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
  • v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily;…
  • v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
  • v. To envelop, enfold, entangle.
  • v. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
  • v. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of…

keep

  • v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
  • v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
  • v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
  • v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
  • n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
  • n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
  • n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
  • n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
  • n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
  • n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

locomote

  • v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

maintain

  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
  • v. To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
  • v. To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

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…

nourish

  • n. (obsolete) A nurse.
  • v. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes…
  • v. To support; to maintain.
  • v. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster.
  • v. To cherish; to comfort.
  • v. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
  • v. To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To gain nourishment.

nurture

  • n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
  • n. That which nourishes; food; diet.
  • n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
  • v. To nourish or nurse.
  • v. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

obtain

  • v. (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
  • v. (intransitive) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

pack

  • n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for…
  • n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack.
  • n. a multitude.
  • n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
  • n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
  • n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
  • n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
  • n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
  • n. A group of Cub Scouts.
  • n. A shook of cask staves.
  • n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
  • n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
  • n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack,…
  • n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
  • n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
  • n. (rugby) The team on the field.
  • v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
  • v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
  • v. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
  • v. To move, send or carry.
  • v. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
  • v. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis or other manbulge-causing…

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

perform

  • v. To do something; to execute.
  • v. To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.

persuade

  • v. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through…
  • v. (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection,…

post

  • n. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post.
  • n. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
  • n. A pole in a battery.
  • n. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
  • n. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
  • n. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
  • n. (sports) A goalpost.
  • n. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers;…
  • v. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
  • v. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
  • v. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
  • v. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
  • v. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).
  • n. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility…
  • n. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of…
  • n. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such…
  • n. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
  • n. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
  • n. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person…
  • n. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum.
  • n. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
  • n. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line…
  • n. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
  • n. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
  • v. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
  • v. To travel quickly; to hurry.
  • v. (Britain) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
  • v. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially…
  • v. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
  • adv. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.
  • adv. Sent via the postal service.
  • n. An assigned station; a guard post.
  • n. An appointed position in an organization, job.
  • v. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
  • v. To assign to a station; to set; to place.
  • prep. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
  • n. (film, informal) Post-production.

produce

  • v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
  • v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
  • v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
  • v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
  • n. Items produced.
  • n. Amount produced.
  • n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

promote

  • v. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
  • v. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell…
  • v. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
  • v. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to the above league.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
  • v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
  • v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

propagate

  • v. (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
  • v. (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
  • v. (transitive) To generate; to produce.
  • v. (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots…
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

propel

  • v. To cause to move in a certain direction.
  • v. To make to arrive to a certain situation or result.

raise

  • v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  • v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
  • v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
  • v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
  • v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
  • v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
  • n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
  • n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
  • n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
  • n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
  • n. A cairn or pile of stones.

range

  • n. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  • n. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
  • n. Selection, array.
  • n. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  • n. An area for military training or equipment testing.
  • n. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
  • n. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
  • n. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  • n. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  • n. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  • n. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference…
  • n. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
  • n. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  • n. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  • n. (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
  • n. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  • n. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  • n. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  • n. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian…
  • n. The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
  • n. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  • v. (transitive) To rove over or through.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to,…
  • v. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition)…
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the…
  • v. (transitive) To classify.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  • v. (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose…
  • v. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively…
  • v. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  • v. To separate into parts; to sift.
  • v. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
  • v. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

run

  • v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
  • v. (fluids) To flow.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • v. (social) To carry out an activity.
  • v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  • v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  • v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
  • v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • v. To have growth or development.
  • v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
  • v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
  • v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
  • n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • n. A pleasure trip.
  • n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • n. Migration (of fish).
  • n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  • n. A (regular) trip or route.
  • n. The route taken while running or skiing.
  • n. The distance sailed by a ship.
  • n. A voyage.
  • n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  • n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  • n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  • n. A trial.
  • n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
  • n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  • n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  • n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
  • n. Any sudden large demand for something.
  • n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  • n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  • n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
  • n. (cricket) A point scored.
  • n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
  • n. Unrestricted use of.
  • n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  • n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
  • n. A pair or set of millstones.
  • n. (video games) A playthrough.
  • n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  • n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  • n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  • n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
  • adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • adj. Cast in a mould.
  • adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

seize

  • v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
  • v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
  • v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
  • v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
  • v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
  • v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
  • v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

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.

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.

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.

stockpile

  • n. A supply of something kept safe for future use.
  • v. To accumulate a stockpile.

support

  • n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
  • n. Financial or other help.
  • n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
  • n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
  • n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
  • n. Evidence.
  • n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
  • n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
  • v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
  • v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
  • v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
  • v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
  • v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
  • v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
  • v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
  • v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
  • v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
  • v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

sustain

  • n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
  • v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
  • v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
  • v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
  • v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
  • v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
  • v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

sway

  • n. The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
  • n. A rocking or swinging motion.
  • n. Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side.
  • n. Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
  • n. Rule; dominion; control.
  • n. A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
  • n. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
  • v. To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
  • v. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
  • v. To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide…
  • v. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
  • v. (nautical) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
  • v. To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
  • v. To have weight or influence.
  • v. To bear sway; to rule; to govern.

take

  • v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove.
  • v. (transitive) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  • v. (transitive) To consume.
  • v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
  • v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  • v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  • v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  • v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  • v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  • v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  • v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
  • v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
  • v. (transitive) To require.
  • v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
  • v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
  • v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
  • v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
  • v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
  • v. (transitive) To move into.
  • v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
  • v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  • v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with.
  • v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
  • v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  • v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
  • n. The or an act of taking.
  • n. Something that is taken; a haul.
  • n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  • n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  • n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
  • n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  • n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  • n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  • n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

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.

transferral

  • n. Alternative spelling of transferal.

transmit

  • v. (transitive) To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
  • v. (transitive) To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
  • v. (transitive) To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate news or information.
  • v. (transitive) To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium.
  • v. (intransitive) To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).

transport

  • v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
  • v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  • n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
  • n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • n. (historical) A deported convict.

transportation

  • n. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
  • n. (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
  • n. (US) A means of conveyance.
  • n. (US) A ticket or fare.

travel

  • v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
  • v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  • v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
  • v. (transitive) To force to journey.
  • v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
  • n. The act of traveling.
  • n. pl A series of journeys.
  • n. pl An account of one's travels.
  • n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  • n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
  • n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

win

  • n. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
  • v. (intransitive) To reach some destination despite difficulties (generally with a preposition or locative…
  • v. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
  • v. (intransitive) To achieve victory.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
  • v. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
  • v. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
  • n. gain; profit; income.
  • n. wealth; owndom; goods.
  • n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss).
  • n. (slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail).

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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