Synonyms of the word

catch

• n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
• n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
• n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
• n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
• n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
• n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
• n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
• n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
• n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
• n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
• n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
• n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
• n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
• n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
• n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
• n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
• n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
• n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
• n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
• n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
• n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
• n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
• v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
• v. (heading) To seize hold of.
• v. (heading) To intercept.
• v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
• v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
• v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
• v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

accumulate

• v. (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
• v. (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
• adj. (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

ache

• v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
• v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
• n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
• n. (obsolete) Parsley.
• n. Rare spelling of aitch.

acquire

• v. (transitive) To get.
• v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
• v. (medicine) To contract.
• v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

adult

• n. A fully grown human or animal.
• n. A person who has reached the legal age of majority, generally 18 years of age.
• adj. Fully grown.
• adj. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
• adj. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; designating pornography.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.

amass

• v. (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
• v. (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
• n. (obsolete) A mass; a heap.

appeal

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accuse (someone of something).
• v. (transitive, law, chiefly US, informal elsewhere) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior…
• v. (intransitive) To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to…
• v. (intransitive) To call on (someone) for aid.
• v. (intransitive) To be attractive.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by…
• v. To summon; to challenge.
• v. To invoke.
• n. (law).
• n. A summons to answer to a charge.
• n. A call to a person or an authority for help, proof or a decision; entreaty.
• n. Resort to physical means; recourse.
• n. The power to attract or interest.

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

arrest

• n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
• n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
• n. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
• n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
• n. A device to physically arrest motion.
• n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
• n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
• n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
• v. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
• v. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
• v. (transitive) To catch the attention of.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

attract

• v. To pull toward without touching.
• v. To arouse interest.
• v. To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite…

becharm

• v. (transitive, archaic) To charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.

beguile

• v. (transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).
• v. (transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.

bewitch

• v. to cast a spell on someone or something.
• v. to astonish, amaze.

board

• n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction…
• n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control…
• n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
• n. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
• n. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
• n. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
• n. (nautical) The side of a ship.
• n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
• n. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
• n. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
• n. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
• n. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
• n. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players…
• v. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
• v. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
• v. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her…
• v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
• v. To cover with boards or boarding.
• v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
• v. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
• n. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

captivate

• v. To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
• v. (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

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).

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

charm

• n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
• n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
• n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
• n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
• v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
• v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
• v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
• n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
• n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

clutch

• v. To seize, as though with claws.
• v. To grip or grasp tightly.
• n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
• n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
• n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
• n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
• n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
• n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
• n. (US) An important or critical situation.
• adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
• n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
• n. A group or bunch (of people or things).

collar

• n. Anything that encircles the neck.
• n. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
• n. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
• n. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
• n. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
• n. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
• n. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope…
• n. (slang) An arrest.
• v. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
• v. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
• v. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
• v. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
• v. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
• v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

combust

• v. To burn; to catch fire.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
• adj. (obsolete) Burnt.
• adj. (astrology) In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes…

compile

• v. (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
• v. (obsolete) To construct, build.
• v. (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
• v. (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
• v. (obsolete) To write; to compose.
• n. (programming) An act of compiling code.

comprehend

• v. (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain.
• v. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

conflagrate

• v. (intransitive) To catch fire.
• v. (transitive) To set fire to something.

constraint

• n. Something that constrains; a restriction.
• n. (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
• n. (databases) A method that maintains database integrity.

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.

contract

• n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
• n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
• n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
• v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
• v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• v. To betroth; to affiance.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

delay

• n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
• v. To put off until a later time; to defer.
• v. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
• v. (obsolete) To allay; to temper.
• v. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
• v. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

delivery

• n. The act of conveying something.
• n. The item which has been conveyed.
• n. The act of giving birth.
• n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
• n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
• n. The manner of speaking.
• n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
• n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
• n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
• n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

detain

• v. (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
• v. (transitive) To put under custody.
• v. (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
• v. (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.

discover

• v. To find or learn something for the first time.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
• v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
• v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

drawback

• n. A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
• n. A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.

enamor

• v. (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love.
• v. (mostly in the passive) to captivate;.

enamour

• v. Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada spelling of enamor.

enchant

• v. To attract and delight, to charm.
• v. To cast a spell over.

entrance

• n. (countable) The action of entering, or going in.
• n. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
• n. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
• n. (uncountable) The right to go in.
• n. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
• n. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
• n. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
• n. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
• n. (music) When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.
• v. (transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.
• v. (transitive) To put into a trance.

erupt

• v. (intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To spontaneously release pressure or tension.

fascinate

• v. To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
• v. To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
• v. To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

find

• v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
• v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
• v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
• v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
• v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To point out.
• v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
• v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
• n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
• n. The act of finding.

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

game

• n. A playful or competitive activity.
• n. (countable) A video game.
• n. (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
• n. (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
• n. (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
• n. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
• n. (uncountable, informal, used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
• n. (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
• adj. (colloquial) Willing to participate.
• adj. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded,…
• adj. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
• adj. Injured, lame (of a limb).
• v. (intransitive) To gamble.
• v. (intransitive) To play video games and be a gamer.
• v. (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit…
• v. (transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

gimmick

• n. A trick or device used to attain some end.
• n. A clever ploy or strategy.
• n. (electronics) A gimmick capacitor.
• v. To rig or set up with a trick or device.

grab

• v. (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
• v. To restrain someone; to arrest.
• v. To grip the attention; to enthrall.
• v. (informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.
• v. (informal) To consume something quickly.
• v. To take the opportunity of.
• n. a sudden snatch (for something).
• n. a mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
• n. (media) a soundbite.
• n. A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.

grownup

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.
• adj. Adult; fully developed; mature.
• n. An adult. (used especially by children).

haul

• v. To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult…
• v. To pull or draw something heavy.
• v. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
• v. (nautical) To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
• v. (nautical, of the wind) To shift fore (more towards the bow).
• v. (figuratively) To pull.
• v. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
• n. A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
• n. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.
• n. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
• n. (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads, to be tarred.
• n. Collectively, all of the products bought on a shopping trip.
• n. A haul video.

hear

• v. (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear.
• v. (transitive) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something)…
• v. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
• v. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
• v. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
• v. (transitive) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
• v. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.

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.

hitch

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

hoard

• n. A hidden supply or fund.
• n. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
• n. Misspelling of horde.
• v. To amass, usually for one's personal collection.

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).

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

ignite

• v. (transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something).
• v. (transitive) to spark off (something), to trigger.
• v. (intransitive) to commence burning.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible…

learn

• v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
• v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
• v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
• v. To be studying.
• v. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
• v. (now only in slang and dialects) To teach.

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

moderate

• adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
• adj. Mediocre.
• adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
• adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
• adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
• n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
• v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

object

• n. A thing that has physical existence.
• n. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
• n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase.…
• n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
• n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
• n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists…
• n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
• v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach;…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

overhear

• v. To hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears.

overtake

• v. To pass a more slowly moving object.
• v. (economics) To become greater than something else.
• v. To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.

perceive

• v. To see, to be aware of, to understand.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

prehend

• v. (obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.

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.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

reproduce

• v. To produce an image or copy of something.
• v. (biology) To generate offspring (sexually or asexually), or organisms.
• v. To produce again; to recreate.
• v. To bring something to mind; to recall.

restraint

• n. (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures.
• n. (uncountable) control or caution; reserve.

see

• v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
• v. To form a mental picture of.
• v. (social) To meet, to visit.
• v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
• v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
• v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
• v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
• v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
• v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
• n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
• n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
• n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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.

seizure

• n. The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
• n. A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
• n. A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
• n. (obsolete) retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.
• n. That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

snap

• n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
• n. A sudden break.
• n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
• n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
• n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
• n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
• n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
• n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
• n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
• n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
• n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
• n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
• n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
• n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
• n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
• n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
• n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
• n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
• n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
• n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
• n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
• n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
• n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
• n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
• n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
• v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
• v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
• v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
• v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
• v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
• v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
• v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
• v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
• v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
• v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
• v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
• v. To misfire.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
• interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
• interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
• interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
• interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
• interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
• adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.

snatch

• v. To grasp quickly.
• v. To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
• v. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
• v. To grasp and remove quickly.
• v. To steal.
• v. (by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
• v. To do something quickly due to limited time available.
• n. A quick grab or catch.
• n. (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked…
• n. A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
• n. (vulgar slang) A vulva.
• n. The handle of a scythe; a snead.

speech

• n. (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations…
• n. (countable) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
• n. A style of speaking.
• n. (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech.
• n. A dialect or language.
• n. Talk; mention; rumour.

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.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

surprise

• n. Something not expected.
• n. (attributive) Unexpected.
• n. The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
• n. (obsolete) A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.
• v. (transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo or witness something unexpected.
• v. (intransitive) To cause surprise.
• v. (transitive) To attack unexpectedly.
• v. (transitive) To take unawares.

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.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

touching

• v. present participle of touch.
• adj. Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.
• n. The act by which something is touched.

trance

• n. A dazed or unconscious condition.
• n. (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience;…
• n. (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
• n. (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
• n. (uncountable, music) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
• n. (obsolete) A tedious journey.
• v. To entrance.
• v. (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
• v. (obsolete) To pass; to travel.

understand

• v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
• v. To believe, based on information.
• v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
• v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

watch

• n. A portable or wearable timepiece.
• n. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
• n. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
• n. A person or group of people who guard.
• n. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
• n. (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty:…
• n. (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the…
• n. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
• v. (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
• v. (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
• v. (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
• v. (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
• v. (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
• v. (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.

witness

• n. (uncountable) Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
• n. (countable) One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
• n. (countable) Someone called to give evidence in a court.
• n. (countable) Something that serves as evidence; a sign.
• v. (transitive) To furnish proof of, to show.
• v. (transitive) To take as evidence.
• v. (transitive) To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
• v. (intransitive, construed with to or for) To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone)…
• v. To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.