Synonyms of the word

deposit

• n. Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material…
• n. That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care…
• n. (banking) Money placed in an account.
• n. Anything left behind on a surface.
• n. (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve…
• n. A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned,…
• n. A place of deposit; a depository.
• v. (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
• v. To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
• v. To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
• v. (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
• v. To lay aside; to rid oneself of.

accretion

• n. The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession…
• n. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.
• n. Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
• n. Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
• n. (biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
• n. (geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
• n. (law) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of…
• n. (law) Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same…

accumulation

• n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
• n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
• n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
• n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
• n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
• n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

alluviation

• n. The deposition of alluvium (sediment) by a river.

bank

• n. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
• n. A branch office of such an institution.
• n. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
• n. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
• n. (gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and…
• n. (slang, uncountable) money; profit.
• n. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
• n. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
• n. A device used to store coins or currency.
• v. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution.
• v. (transitive) To put into a bank.
• n. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
• n. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand,…
• n. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
• n. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
• n. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
• n. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
• n. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
• n. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
• n. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
• v. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
• v. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
• v. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
• n. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
• n. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
• v. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
• n. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
• n. A bench or seat for judges in court.
• n. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law,…
• n. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
• n. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
• n. (uncountable) slang for money.

buildup

• n. An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.

depositary

• adj. Acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
• n. One who receives a deposit in trust.
• n. A place where deposits are kept.

deposition

• n. The removal of someone from office.
• n. The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
• n. (chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
• n. (law) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
• n. (meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
• n. (physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation).
• n. (religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.

depository

• n. A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation; a repository.
• n. A trustee; a depositary.

facility

• n. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
• n. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
• n. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required…
• n. An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific…
• n. (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.

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;…

fund

• n. A sum or source of money.
• n. An organization managing such money.
• n. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
• n. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
• v. (transitive) To pay for.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

guarantee

• n. Anything that assures a certain outcome.
• n. A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
• n. More specifically, a written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly;…
• n. The person to whom a guarantee is made.
• n. (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
• v. To give an assurance that something will be done right.
• v. To assume responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
• v. To make something certain.

installation

• n. An act of installing.
• n. Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set…
• n. A work of installation art.
• n. A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

lodge

• n. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
• n. Porter's or caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
• n. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
• n. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
• n. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
• n. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
• n. A den or cave.
• n. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
• n. (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore…
• n. A collection of objects lodged together.
• n. A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration,…
• v. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
• v. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
• v. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
• v. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

matter

• n. Substance, material.
• n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
• n. An approximate amount or extent.
• n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
• n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
• n. (dated) Pus.
• v. (intransitive) To be important.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
• v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

payment

• n. (uncountable) The act of paying.
• n. (countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

posit

• n. Something that is posited; a postulate.
• n. (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
• v. Assume the existence of; to postulate.
• v. Propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
• v. Put (something somewhere) firmly.

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.

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

repository

• n. a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
• n. a burial vault.
• n. a person to whom a secret is entrusted.

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.

security

• n. (uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally,…
• n. (countable) Something that secures.
• n. An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations…
• n. (law) Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
• n. (law) Freedom from apprehension.
• n. (finance, often used in plural) A tradeable financial asset, such as a share of stock.^W.
• n. (finance) Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
• n. (finance) Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
• n. A guarantee.
• n. (obsolete) Carelessness; negligence.

sediment

• n. A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
• v. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
• v. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

sedimentation

• n. The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid,…

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

situate

• v. To place on or into a physical location. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.
• v. To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly…
• adj. (now rare) Situated.

stick

• n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
• n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
• n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• n. (sports) A stick-like item.
• n. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically.
• n. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking,…
• n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
• n. A measure.
• v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
• n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
• n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
• n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
• v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
• v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
• v. (intransitive) To persist.
• v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
• v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
• v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
• v. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
• v. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
• v. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
• v. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
• v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
• v. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
• v. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
• v. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by…
• v. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
• adj. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.

substance

• n. Physical matter; material.
• n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
• n. (theology) Hypostasis.

surety

• n. Certainty.
• n. That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
• n. (law) A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
• n. A substitute; a hostage.
• n. Evidence; confirmation; warrant.

warrant

• n. (obsolete) A protector or defender.
• n. Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior.
• n. Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof: a warrant of authenticity; a…
• n. An order that serves as authorization, especially: A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
• n. (law) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest or to execute a judgment.
• n. A warrant officer.
• n. (finance) An option, usually with a term at issue greater than a year, usually issued together with another…
• n. (New Zealand) A Warrant of Fitness; a document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To protect, keep safe (from danger).
• v. (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value etc.).
• v. (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquially) to believe strongly.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To give (someone) a guarantee or assurance (of something); also, with double object,…
• v. (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) warrant or sanction (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.

warrantee

• n. The beneficiary of a warranty.

warranty

• n. (countable) A guarantee that a certain outcome or obligation will be fulfilled; security.
• n. (countable, law, real estate, obsolete) An obsolete legal agreement that was a real covenant and ran with…
• n. (countable, law) A legal agreement, either written or oral (an expressed warranty) or implied through…
• n. (countable) A written guarantee, usually over a fixed period, provided to someone who buys a product or…
• n. (countable, insurance law) A stipulation of an insurance policy made by an insuree, guaranteeing that…
• n. (uncountable, rare) Justification or mandate to do something, especially in terms of one’s personal conduct.
• v. To warrant; to guarantee.

wedge

• n. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered…
• n. A piece (of food, etc.) having this shape.
• n. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting…
• n. (figuratively) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
• n. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted…
• n. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
• n. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
• n. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A quantity of money.
• n. (typography, US) háček.
• n. (phonetics) The IPA character <ʌ>, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
• n. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
• n. (meteorology) a wedge tornado.
• v. To support or secure using a wedge.
• v. To force into a narrow gap.
• v. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
• v. (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
• n. (Britain, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical…