Synonyms of the word

degree

• n. (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
• n. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
• n. A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
• n. (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
• n. (now rare) One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
• n. The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
• n. A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university…
• n. (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.
• n. (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
• n. (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
• n. (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
• n. (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc…

accolade

• n. An expression of approval; praise.
• n. A special acknowledgment; an award.
• n. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
• n. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and…
• n. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
• n. (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded…
• n. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its…
• v. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
• v. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
• v. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.

award

• n. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
• n. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
• n. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor…
• n. (obsolete) Care, keeping.
• n. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or…
• v. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful…
• v. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
• v. (transitive) to give an award (prize) for merit.

exponent

• n. One who expounds, represents or advocates.
• n. (linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.

grade

• n. A rating.
• n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
• n. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
• n. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage.
• n. (Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
• n. (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
• n. An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine).
• n. The level of the ground.
• n. (mathematics) A gradian.
• n. (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection…
• n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
• n. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
• n. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
• v. To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
• v. To assign a score to overall academic performance.
• v. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
• v. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make…

honor

• n. (uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence…
• n. (countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such…
• n. A privilege.
• n. (in the plural) The privilege of going first.
• n. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
• n. (feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
• n. (heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon. (Compare honour point…
• n. (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In…
• n. (in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
• v. (transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or…
• v. (transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request,…
• v. (transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
• v. (transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).

honour

• n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.
• v. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.

index

• n. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
• n. The index finger; the forefinger.
• n. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
• n. (printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
• n. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
• n. A sign; an indication; a token.
• n. (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g.,…
• n. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
• n. (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
• n. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
• n. (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data…
• n. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
• n. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
• v. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
• v. To inventory, to take stock.
• v. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.

laurels

• n. plural of laurel.
• n. Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred…

level

• adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
• adj. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
• adj. Unvaried in frequency.
• adj. Unvaried in volume.
• adj. Calm.
• adj. In the same position or rank.
• adj. Straightforward; direct; clear.
• adj. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
• adj. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection ; monotonic.
• n. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
• n. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
• n. Degree or amount.
• n. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
• n. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered…
• n. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
• n. A floor of a multi-storey building.
• n. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
• n. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
• v. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
• v. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
• v. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
• v. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
• v. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To levy.
• v. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege,…
• v. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
• v. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

magnitude

• n. (uncountable, countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
• n. (countable) An order of magnitude.
• n. (mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically.
• n. (mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
• n. (astronomy) The apparent brightness of a star (on a negative, logarithmic scale); apparent magnitude.
• n. (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

power

• n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control.
• n. (physical, uncountable) Effectiveness.
• n. (mathematics).
• n. (biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels,…
• v. (transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
• v. (transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.
• v. To enable or provide the impetus for.
• adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.

property

• n. Something that is owned.
• n. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
• n. Real estate; the business of selling houses.
• n. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
• n. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
• n. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
• n. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or…
• n. (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
• n. (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
• v. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
• v. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.

stage

• n. A phase.
• n. A platform, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
• n. A floor or storey of a house.
• n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
• n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
• n. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
• n. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
• n. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked…
• n. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
• n. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
• n. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
• n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
• n. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
• v. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
• v. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
• v. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
• v. To place in position to prepare for use.

state

• n. A polity.
• n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
• n. High social standing or circumstance.
• n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
• v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
• v. (transitive) To make known.
• adj. (obsolete) stately.