Synonyms of the word

crank

• adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd.
• adj. sick; unwell; infirm.
• adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
• n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• n. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• n. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
• n. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
• n. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
• n. (US, slang) methamphetamine.
• n. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• n. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
• n. (slang) penis.
• v. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
• v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

amphetamine

• n. (organic chemistry, proper) The racemic freebase of 1-phenylpropan-2-amine; an equal parts mixture of…
• n. (informal) Any mixture of the two amphetamine enantiomers, dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine.
• n. (informal, nonstandard) Referring to a substituted amphetamine; a member of the amphetamine class of chemicals.
• n. (medicine) A potent central nervous system stimulant of the phenethylamine chemical class that is used…

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

chalk

• n. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.
• n. (countable) A piece of chalk, or, more often, processed compressed chalk, that is used for drawing and…
• n. Tailor's chalk.
• n. (uncountable, climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing,…
• n. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
• n. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor…
• v. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
• v. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
• v. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
• v. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
• v. To manure (land) with chalk.
• v. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

churl

• n. A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf).
• n. A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
• n. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
• n. (Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.

circumvolve

• v. To revolve or move about.
• v. (transitive) To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.

crackpot

• n. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. A kook.
• n. (informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). See also crackhead.
• adj. (informal) Eccentric or impractical.

cranky

• adj. (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
• adj. (of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition; shaky.
• adj. Grouchy, irritable; easily upset.
• adj. Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
• adj. (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.

crosspatch

• n. A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.

deform

• v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
• v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
• v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
• v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
• v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
• adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

eccentric

• adj. Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
• adj. Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
• adj. Having a different center; not concentric.
• adj. (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently.
• adj. (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such…
• adj. Having different goals or motives.
• n. One who does not behave like others.
• n. A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
• n. (slang) A kook.

fasten

• v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
• v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

flake

• n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
• n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
• n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
• n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• v. To break or chip off in a flake.
• v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
• v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
• v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
• n. (Britain) Dogfish.
• n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
• n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
• n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

flex

• n. (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
• n. (countable) The act of flexing.
• n. (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
• v. To bend something.
• v. To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
• v. To move part of the body using one's muscles.
• v. To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.

fruitcake

• n. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
• n. (chiefly US and Canada, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
• n. (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A male homosexual.

geek

• n. (dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
• n. (colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial.…
• n. (colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
• n. (colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream;…
• n. (colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
• v. (colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence…
• n. (Australia, colloquial) A look.
• v. (Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.

glass

• n. (uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda,…
• n. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent…
• n. (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
• n. (uncountable) Glassware.
• n. A mirror.
• n. A magnifying glass or telescope.
• n. (sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
• n. A barometer.
• n. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
• n. (obsolete) An hourglass.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with glass; to glaze.
• v. (transitive) To enclose with glass.
• v. (transitive, Britain, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass…
• v. (video games) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape…
• v. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
• v. To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
• v. (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.

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…

grouch

• n. A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
• n. One who is grumpy or irritable.
• v. (intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.

grump

• n. (informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To complain.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To be grumpy.

ice

• n. (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
• n. (uncountable) Covering made of frozen water on a river or other water basin in cold season.
• n. (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
• n. (uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily…
• n. (countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
• n. (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
• n. (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds.
• n. (uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
• n. (uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
• v. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
• v. To become ice, to freeze.
• v. (slang) To murder.
• v. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
• v. (ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
• v. (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

locomote

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

meth

• n. (slang) Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.
• n. (informal) Methadone.
• n. (Geordie, pejorative) A tramp.

methamphetamine

• n. A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug, similar to cocaine. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.

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…

nut

• n. A hard-shelled seed.
• n. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined…
• n. (slang) A crazy person.
• n. (slang) The head.
• n. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
• n. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
• n. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of…
• n. (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead…
• n. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
• n. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
• n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
• n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
• n. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
• n. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface…
• n. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and…
• n. The tumbler of a gunlock.
• n. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
• v. (slang) To ejaculate.
• interj. (Scotland, colloquial) No.

nutcase

• n. (humorous) An eccentric or odd person.
• n. (pejorative, slang) Someone who is insane.

oddball

• n. An eccentric or unusual person.
• n. (neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger…
• adj. Exotic, not mainstream.

rotate

• v. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
• v. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
• v. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
• v. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
• v. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older…
• v. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
• adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

screwball

• n. (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting…
• n. (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
• adj. (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

shabu

• n. (informal, Asia) methedrine.

speed

• n. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity.
• n. The rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the…
• n. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
• n. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
• n. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
• n. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a…
• n. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
• n. (slang) Personal preference.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
• v. (intransitive) To go fast.
• v. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
• v. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
• v. (obsolete) To be expedient.
• v. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
• v. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
• v. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
• v. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

starter

• n. Someone who starts something.
• n. Something that starts something.
• n. The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
• n. (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
• n. A dog that rouses game.

tender

• adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
• adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
• adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
• v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
• n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
• n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
• n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
• n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
• n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
• v. (formal) To offer, to give.
• v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
• n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
• n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
• n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

tippy

• adj. (obsolete, colloquial or slang) Fashionable, tip-top.
• adj. (obsolete, colloquial or slang, absolute, with the) In the height of fashion, excellent, cool.
• adj. (colloquial or slang) Clever, neat, smart.
• adj. Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds.
• n. (obsolete, colloquial or slang) A dandy.
• adj. (Canada, US) Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable.

trash

• n. (chiefly US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
• n. A container into which things are discarded.
• n. Something worthless or of poor quality.
• n. (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash…
• n. (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
• n. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered…
• n. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
• v. (US) To discard.
• v. (US) To make into a mess.
• v. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
• v. (US) To disrespect someone or something.
• v. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
• v. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
• v. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain;…

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.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

unstable

• adj. Having a strong tendency to change.
• adj. Fluctuating; not constant.
• adj. Fickle.
• adj. Unpredictable.
• adj. (chemistry) Readily decomposable.
• adj. (physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
• v. (transitive) To release (an animal) from a stable.

upper

• adj. At a higher level, rank or position.
• adj. Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
• adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) younger, more recent.
• adj. (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
• n. That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
• n. (shoemaking) The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.
• n. A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.

zigzag

• n. a line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
• n. one of such sharp turns.
• adj. Moving in, or having a zigzag.
• v. To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.
• adv. in a zigzag manner or pattern.