Synonyms of the word

command

• n. An order to do something.
• n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
• n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
• n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
• n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
• n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
• n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
• n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
• n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
• v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
• v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
• v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
• v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
• v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
• v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
• v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

accessibility

• n. The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.
• n. (computing, web design) Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.

authorisation

• n. Alternative spelling of authorization.

authority

• n. ability to decide, control.
• n. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
• n. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
• n. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
• n. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

authorization

• n. (uncountable) Permission.
• n. (countable) An act of authorizing.
• n. (countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
• n. (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.

availability

• n. (chiefly uncountable) The quality of being available.
• n. (countable) That which is available.

availableness

• n. Competent power; validity; efficacy.
• n. The quality of being available.

bid

• v. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
• v. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to pray for; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
• v. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
• v. (transitive) To offer as a price.
• v. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
• v. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
• n. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
• n. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
• n. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

bidding

• v. present participle of bid.
• n. That which one is bidden to do; a command.
• n. The act of placing a bid.

code

• n. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
• n. A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the…
• n. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
• n. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
• n. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
• n. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
• n. (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of…
• n. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
• v. (computing) To write software programs.
• v. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
• v. (cryptography) To encode.
• v. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
• v. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

compel

• v. (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
• v. (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
• v. (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
• v. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
• v. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
• v. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

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…

demand

• n. The desire to purchase goods and services.
• n. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
• n. A need.
• n. A claim for something.
• n. A requirement.
• n. An urgent request.
• n. An order.
• n. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a…
• v. To request forcefully.
• v. To claim a right to something.
• v. To ask forcefully for information.
• v. To require of someone.
• v. (law) To issue a summons to court.

dictation

• n. (uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
• n. (countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
• n. (countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
• n. (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.

dominance

• n. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
• n. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
• n. (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs;…
• n. (biology, genetics) The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.

dominate

• v. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.
• v. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone.
• v. To enjoy a commanding position in some field.
• v. To overlook from a height.

enjoin

• v. (transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct…
• v. (transitive, law) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

exact

• adj. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor…
• adj. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
• adj. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
• adj. (algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism…
• v. (transitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
• v. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly obtain or produce.
• adv. exactly.

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

handiness

• n. The quality or state of being handy.

instruction

• n. (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
• n. (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
• n. (countable) An order or command.
• n. (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
• n. A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.

lie

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
• v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
• v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
• v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
• v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
• v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
• n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
• n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
• v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
• n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
• n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
• n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

master

• n. Someone who has control over something or someone.
• n. The owner of an animal or slave.
• n. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
• n. (dated) The head of a household.
• n. Someone who employs others.
• n. An expert at something.
• n. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
• n. (dated) A schoolmaster.
• n. A skilled artist.
• n. (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
• n. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
• n. A person holding such a degree.
• n. The original of a document or of a recording.
• n. (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
• n. (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed…
• n. (engineering) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source (e.g. master database).
• n. (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
• n. (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
• adj. Masterful.
• adj. Main, principal or predominant.
• adj. Highly skilled.
• adj. Original.
• v. (intransitive) To be a master.
• v. (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to…
• v. (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To own; to posses.
• v. (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
• v. (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
• n. (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.

mastery

• n. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
• n. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
• n. (obsolete) Contest for superiority.
• n. (obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat.
• n. (obsolete) The philosopher's stone.
• n. The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

overlook

• n. A vista or point that gives a beautiful view.
• v. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to…
• v. Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly.
• v. To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
• v. To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
• v. To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking.
• v. To pretend not to have noticed, especially a mistake; to pass over without censure or punishment.

overtop

• v. (transitive) To be higher than; to rise over the top of.
• v. (transitive) To place too many toppings on.
• adv. (now chiefly Canada, US) Over the top.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

potency

• n. Strength.
• n. Power.
• n. The ability or capacity to perform something.

require

• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
• v. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
• v. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
• v. To demand of (someone) to do something.

say

• v. (transitive) To pronounce.
• v. (transitive) To recite.
• v. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
• v. To indicate in a written form.
• v. (impersonal) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate…
• v. (informal, imperative) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
• v. (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
• v. (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension,…
• n. One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.
• adv. For example; let us assume.
• interj. (colloquial) Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion.
• n. A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
• v. To try; to assay.
• n. Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
• n. Tried quality; temper; proof.
• n. Essay; trial; attempt.

say-so

• n. Statement that something is so.
• n. (informal) Permission.
• n. Say, voice (in a matter).

skillfulness

• n. The state or quality of being adept or skillful.

statement

• n. A declaration or remark.
• n. A presentation of opinion or position.
• n. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
• n. (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special…

status

• n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
• n. Prestige or high standing.
• n. A situation or state of affairs.
• n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
• n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…

tell

• v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• v. (transitive) To narrate.
• v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
• v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
• v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
• v. (transitive) To reveal.
• v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
• v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
• v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
• v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
• n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
• n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
• n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
• n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.