Synonyms of the word

cross

• n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
• n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
• n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
• n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
• n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
• n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
• n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
• n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
• n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
• n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
• n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
• n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
• n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
• n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
• n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
• n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
• n. A line drawn across or through another line.
• n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
• n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
• n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
• adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
• adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
• adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
• adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
• adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
• prep. (archaic) across.
• prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• v. To make or form a cross.
• v. To move relatively.
• v. (social) To oppose.
• v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
• v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…

affliction

• n. A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
• n. Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.

bad-tempered

• adj. Of or pertaining to bad temper; showing anger easily or customarily.

baffle

• v. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
• v. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
• v. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
• v. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
• n. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is…
• n. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
• n. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

being

• v. present participle of be.
• n. A living creature.
• n. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
• n. (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
• n. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
• n. (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
• conj. (obsolete) Given that; since.

bilk

• n. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
• n. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
• v. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
• v. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).

breed

• v. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
• v. Of animals, to mate.
• v. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
• v. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
• v. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
• v. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
• v. To yield or result in.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before…
• v. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.
• v. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
• v. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
• n. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
• n. A race or lineage.
• n. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

conjugation

• n. The coming together of things.
• n. (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.
• n. Sexual relations within marriage.
• n. (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they…
• n. (grammar) The act of conjugating a verb.
• n. (grammar) The conjugated forms of a verb.
• n. (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds.
• n. (mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg^-1, where g and x are elements of a group; inner automorphism.
• n. (mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; complex…

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

continue

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

coupling

• v. present participle of couple.
• n. act of joining together to form a couple.
• n. a device that couples two things together.
• n. (computing) the degree of reliance between two program modules.
• n. (electronics) a connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
• n. (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other.
• n. (sexuality) sexual intercourse.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

crabbed

• adj. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
• adj. Cramped, bent.
• adj. (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of crab.

crabby

• adj. visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault…
• adj. crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.

crisscross

• v. To move back and forth (over something.).
• v. To mark something with crossed lines.
• n. A pattern of crossed lines.
• n. A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
• n. A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
• adj. marked with crossed lines.
• adv. crossing one another.

cross

• n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
• n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
• n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
• n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
• n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
• n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
• n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
• n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
• n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
• n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
• n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
• n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
• n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
• n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
• n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
• n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
• n. A line drawn across or through another line.
• n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
• n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
• n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
• adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
• adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
• adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
• adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
• adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
• prep. (archaic) across.
• prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• v. To make or form a cross.
• v. To move relatively.
• v. (social) To oppose.
• v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
• v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…

crossbreed

• v. (transitive) To produce (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or…
• v. (intransitive) To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
• v. (transitive) To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.
• n. An organism produced by mating of individuals of different varieties or breeds.

crossbreeding

• v. present participle of crossbreed.

crossing

• n. An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
• n. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
• n. A voyage across a body of water.
• n. (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church;…
• n. Movement into a crossed position.
• n. (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
• n. A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
• adj. (rare) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.
• v. present participle of cross.

crosswise

• adj. crossing; lying across.
• adv. transversely; so as to lie across.

emblem

• n. A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
• n. Something which represents a larger whole.
• n. Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
• n. A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

encounter

• v. (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly.
• v. (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
• n. An unplanned or unexpected meeting.
• n. A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish.
• n. A sudden, often violent clash, as between combatants.
• n. (sports) A match between two opposing sides.

extend

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

foil

• n. A very thin sheet of metal.
• n. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
• n. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
• n. (figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the…
• n. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
• n. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip.
• n. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation…
• n. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
• n. Shortened form of hydrofoil.
• n. Shortened form of aerofoil/airfoil.
• v. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
• v. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
• v. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
• v. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
• n. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
• n. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
• n. (hunting) The track of an animal.
• v. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
• v. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

foreclose

• v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
• v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
• v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
• v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

frustrate

• v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
• v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
• v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
• adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

fussy

• adj. Anxious or particular about petty details.
• adj. Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).

grouchy

• adj. (originally college slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.

grumpy

• adj. Unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable.

hybrid

• n. (biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two…
• n. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly…
• adj. Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.

hybridisation

• n. Alternative form of hybridization.

hybridise

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

hybridization

• n. The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.
• n. (transport) the conversion of a fleet of vehicles to hybrids.

hybridize

• v. (transitive) to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.
• v. (intransitive) to produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.
• v. (transitive) to construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.
• v. (physics) to combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
• v. (biochemistry) to combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.

hybridizing

• v. present participle of hybridize.

ill-natured

• adj. Having a bad nature, whether.

ill-tempered

• adj. Synonym of bad-tempered.

interbreed

• v. To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.
• v. To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids.

interbreeding

• v. present participle of interbreed.
• n. breeding within a narrow range of individuals.

intersect

• v. To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
• v. (mathematics) Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

marking

• v. present participle of mark.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to mark.
• n. a mark.
• n. the characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.

mating

• adj. Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
• n. (zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
• v. present participle of mate.

meet

• v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
• v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
• v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
• v. To satisfy; to comply with.
• v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
• n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
• n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
• n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. A meeting.
• n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
• n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
• adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

organism

• n. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
• n. (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.

pairing

• n. The combination or union of two things.
• v. present participle of pair.

pass

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

preclude

• v. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

queer

• adj. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
• adj. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
• adj. (colloquial) Homosexual.
• adj. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
• adj. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual…
• n. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• n. (colloquial) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• n. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare…
• n. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
• v. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
• v. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• v. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• v. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…
• adv. Queerly.

scotch

• n. A surface cut or abrasion.
• n. A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
• n. A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
• v. (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
• v. (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
• v. (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
• v. (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
• v. (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To clothe or cover up.
• adj. Of Scottish origin.
• n. Whisky of Scottish origin.
• n. Scotch tape.
• v. (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) to rape.

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.

span

• n. The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
• n. Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
• n. The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or…
• n. The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
• n. (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope…
• n. (obsolete) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar…
• n. (mathematics) the space of all linear combinations of something.
• v. To traverse the distance between.
• v. To cover or extend over an area or time period.
• v. To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
• v. (mathematics) to generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
• v. (intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
• v. To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
• v. (archaic, nonstandard) simple past tense of spin.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

sweep

• v. (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
• v. (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
• v. (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
• v. (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
• v. (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To move something in a particular motion, as a broom.
• v. (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
• v. (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that…
• v. (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
• v. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
• v. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
• v. To strike with a long stroke.
• v. (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
• v. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
• n. A single action of sweeping.
• n. The person who steers a dragon boat.
• n. A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
• n. A chimney sweep.
• n. A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
• n. A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team…
• n. A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
• n. (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
• n. Violent and general destruction.
• n. (metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
• n. (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
• n. The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
• n. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
• n. A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
• n. (refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
• n. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise…
• n. Any of the blades of a windmill.
• n. (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
• n. Any of several sea chubs in the kyphosid subfamily Scorpidinae.

thwart

• v. (transitive) To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
• v. (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
• n. (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel…
• n. (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
• adj. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
• adj. (figuratively) Perverse; crossgrained.
• adv. Obliquely; transversely; athwart.

thwartwise

• adj. (archaic) Athwart; from side to side; across.
• adv. (archaic) Athwart; from side to side; across.

track

• n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
• n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
• n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
• n. A road or other similar beaten path.
• n. Physical course; way.
• n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
• n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
• n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
• n. A tract or area, such as of land.
• n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
• n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
• n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
• n. (cricket) The pitch.
• n. Sound stored on a record.
• n. The physical track on a record.
• n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
• n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
• n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
• n. A session talk on a conference.
• v. To continue observing over time.
• v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

transversal

• adj. Running or lying across; transverse.
• n. A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
• n. (mathematics) A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.

transverse

• adj. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
• adj. (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things…
• n. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
• n. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
• v. (transitive) To overturn; to change.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

traverse

• n. (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by…
• n. (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject,…
• n. (obsolete) A screen or partition.
• n. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
• n. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
• n. (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings…
• n. (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound…
• n. (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
• n. (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
• v. (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
• v. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
• v. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
• v. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
• v. (climbing), To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
• v. (engineering), (skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe…
• v. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
• v. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
• v. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
• v. (law) To deny formally.
• adv. athwart; across; crosswise.
• adj. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

union

• n. (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
• n. (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts…
• n. (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
• n. (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some…
• n. (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
• n. (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
• n. (countable) The act or state of marriage.
• n. (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a…
• n. (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
• v. To combine sets using the union operation.

write

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
• v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To send written information to.
• v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
• v. (intransitive) To be an author.
• v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
• v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
• v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
• v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
• n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.