Synonym of the word DRAW

draw

v. (heading) To move or develop something.
v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
v. To disembowel.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
v. A random selection process.
v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

absorb

v. (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
v. (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically…
v. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as.
v. (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
v. (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
v. (transitive) Assimilate mentally.
v. (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
v. (transitive) To defray the costs.
v. (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.

alter

v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
v. (intransitive) To become different.
v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

arouse

v. To stimulate feelings.
v. To sexually stimulate.
v. To wake from sleep or stupor.

arrange

v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
v. To put in order, to organize.
v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…

ask

v. To request (information, or an answer to a question).
v. To put forward (a question) to be answered.
v. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
v. To request or petition; usually with for.
v. To request permission to do something.
v. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
v. To invite.
v. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
v. (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
n. An act or instance of asking.
n. Something asked or asked for; a request.
n. An asking price.
n. (Britain dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
n. (Britain dialectal) A lizard.

attract

v. To pull toward without touching.
v. To arouse interest.
v. To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite…

attraction

n. The tendency to attract.
n. The feeling of being attracted.
n. (countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in…
n. (chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.

attractor

n. Something which attracts.
n. (mathematics, physics) A set of points or states to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough…

be

v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

cast

v. (heading, physical) To move, or be moved, away.
v. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
v. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
v. (heading, social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
v. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
v. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
v. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
v. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
v. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
v. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by…
v. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
v. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
v. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
v. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
v. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
n. An act of throwing.
n. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
n. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
n. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
n. The casting procedure.
n. An object made in a mould.
n. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
n. The mould used to make cast objects.
n. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
n. A squint.
n. Visual appearance.
n. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
n. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
n. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
n. A group of crabs.

change

v. (intransitive) To become something different.
v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
v. (transitive) To replace.
v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
v. (archaic) To exchange.
v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

choose

v. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
v. To elect.
v. To decide to act in a certain way.
v. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
conj. (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
n. (dialectal or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
n. (dialectal or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
n. (dialectal or obsolete) Scope for choice.

close

v. (physical) To remove a gap.
v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
n. An end or conclusion.
n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
n. A grapple in wrestling.
n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
adj. Narrow; confined.
adj. At a little distance; near.
adj. Intimate; well-loved.
adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
adj. Short.
adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
adj. Marked, evident.
n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
n. A cathedral close.
n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

compose

v. (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
v. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
v. (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create…
v. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
v. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
v. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
v. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
v. (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

create

v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

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.

delineate

v. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
v. To depict, represent with pictures.
v. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
v. To outline or mark out.

demand

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

depict

v. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
adj. (obsolete) Depicted.

derive

v. (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
v. (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
v. (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
v. (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
v. (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
v. To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.

describe

v. (transitive) To represent in words.
v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

disembowel

v. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
v. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

displace

v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
v. (psycology) to repress.

drag

n. (uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
n. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
n. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body,…
n. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
n. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle…
n. (countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
n. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
n. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
n. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the…
n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially,…
n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
v. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
v. (intransitive) To move slowly.
v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
v. To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
v. To fish with a dragnet.
v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of…
v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
v. (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
n. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
n. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

draw

v. (heading) To move or develop something.
v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
v. To disembowel.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
v. A random selection process.
v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

effect

n. The result or outcome of a cause. See usage notes below.
n. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
n. Execution; performance; realization; operation.
n. (cinematography) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect").
n. (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced…
n. (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
n. (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
n. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
n. (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
n. (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
v. To make or bring about; to implement.
v. Misspelling of affect.

effectuate

v. (transitive) To be the cause of something.
v. (transitive) To bring about something; to effect or execute something.

elicit

v. To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or…
v. To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
v. To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason; deduce; construe.
adj. (obsolete) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

enkindle

v. To kindle; to arouse or evoke.

entertainer

n. A person who entertains others, esp. as a profession, as a singer, dancer, musician, comedian, etc.
n. Someone who puts on a show for the entertainment or enjoyment of others.

equal

adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
v. To be equivalent to; to match.
v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

equalise

v. Non-Oxford British English standard form of equalize.

equalize

v. (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
v. (intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
v. (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure…
v. (category theory) Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to…

equate

v. To consider equal, to state as being equivalent.
v. (mathematics) To set as equal.
n. (programming) A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.

eviscerate

v. (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
v. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
v. (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
v. (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
v. (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.

evoke

v. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

exposit

v. to expound.

expound

v. (transitive) To lay open the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length; to clear of obscurity; to interpret.
v. (intransitive) To make a statement, especially at length.

finish

n. An end; the end of anything.
n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
v. (transitive) To complete (something).
v. (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
v. (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the…
v. (intransitive) To come to an end.

fire

n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
v. To feed or serve the fire of.
v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
v. (farriery) To cauterize.
v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
adj. (slang) Amazing.
interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
interj. A signal to shoot.

force

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

form

n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
n. Level of performance.
n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
n. The den or home of a hare.
n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
n. (geometry) A quantic.
n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
v. (intransitive) To take shape.
v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

gain

prep. (obsolete) Against.
adj. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
adj. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
adj. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
adj. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
adv. (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
adv. (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
adv. (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
n. The act of gaining; acquisition.
n. What is gained.
n. (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
v. (transitive) To acquire possession of.
v. (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest,…
v. (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
v. (transitive) To increase.
v. (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
v. (transitive) To reach.
v. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
v. (intransitive) To put on weight.
v. (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
n. (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports…

get

v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To receive.
v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
v. (copulative) To become.
v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
v. (transitive) To cause to do.
v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
v. (transitive) To getter.
v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
v. (euphemistic) To kill.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
n. Offspring.
n. Lineage.
n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
n. Something gained.
n. (Britain, regional) A git.
n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

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…

guide

n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer…
n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
n. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for…
v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
v. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
v. to supervise the education or training of someone.
v. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

gully

n. A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
n. A small valley.
n. (Britain) A drop kerb.
n. A road drain.
n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point;…
n. (Britain) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
v. (obsolete) To flow noisily.
v. (transitive) To wear away into a gully or gullies.
n. (Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.

haul

v. To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult…
v. To pull or draw something heavy.
v. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
v. (nautical) To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
v. (nautical, of the wind) To shift fore (more towards the bow).
v. (figuratively) To pull.
v. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
n. A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
n. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.
n. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
n. (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads, to be tarred.
n. Collectively, all of the products bought on a shopping trip.
n. A haul video.

haulage

n. The act of hauling.
n. Business of transporting goods.

hook

n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
n. (baseball) A curveball.
n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
n. (typography, rare) A háček.
n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
n. A snare; a trap.
n. A field sown two years in succession.
n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

hooking

v. present participle of hook.
n. (ice hockey) The penalized action of using one's stick to restrain an opponent.

imbibe

v. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
v. (figuratively) To take in; absorb.

indite

v. (transitive) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe.
v. (transitive) To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose.
v. To dictate; to prompt.
v. (obsolete) To invite or ask.
v. (obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
n. (mineralogy) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.

infuse

v. (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
v. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
v. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
v. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
v. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
v. (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

inhale

v. (intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
v. (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form…
v. (transitive, figuratively) To eat very quickly.

inspire

v. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural…
v. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what…
v. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
v. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
v. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
v. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

interpret

v. To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms…
v. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation.
v. (intransitive) To act as an interpreter.

involve

v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily;…
v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
v. To envelop, enfold, entangle.
v. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
v. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of…

kill

v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
n. The act of killing.
n. Specifically, the death blow.
n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
n. A kiln.

kindle

v. (intransitive, of a rabbit or hare) To bring forth young; to give birth.
n. (rare, collective) A group of kittens.
v. (transitive) To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
v. (transitive, figuratively) To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc).
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To begin to grow or take hold.

line

n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
n. Direction, path.
n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
n. A letter, a written form of communication.
n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
n. A measure of length.
n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
v. To form a line along.
v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

localise

v. (British spelling, transitive) alternative spelling of localize.

localize

v. (transitive) To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
v. (software engineering) To adapt a product for use in a particular country or region, typically by translating…
v. To determine where something takes place or is to be found.

locomote

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

lot

n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
n. A prize in a lottery.
n. Allotment; lottery.
n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

make

v. (transitive, heading) To create.
v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
v. To constitute.
v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
v. To appoint; to name.
v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
v. To enact; to establish.
v. To develop into; to prove to be.
v. To form or formulate in the mind.
v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
n. How a thing is made; construction.
n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
n. A person's character or disposition.
n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
n. (slang, military) A promotion.
n. A home-made project.
n. (basketball) A made basket.
n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

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).

match

n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
n. A marriage.
n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
n. Suitability.
n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
n. An agreement or compact.
n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

modify

v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

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…

necessitate

v. (transitive) To make necessary; to require (something) to be brought about.

need

n. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
v. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
v. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

object

n. A thing that has physical existence.
n. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase.…
n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists…
n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach;…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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).

pen

n. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
n. A place to confine a person; a prison cell, though likelier an abbreviation of penitentiary.
n. (baseball) The bullpen.
v. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
n. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used…
n. (figuratively) A writer, or his style.
n. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
n. A light pen.
n. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
n. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
n. (poetic) A wing.
v. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
n. A female swan.
n. penalty.

poker

n. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
n. One who pokes.
n. A kind of duck, the pochard.
n. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards,…
n. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
n. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

postulate

n. Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a…
n. A fundamental element; a basic principle.
n. (logic) An axiom.
n. A requirement; a prerequisite.
adj. Postulated.
v. To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
v. (transitive, intransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical…
v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.

provoke

v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
v. (obsolete) To appeal.

puff

n. (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
n. (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
n. (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
n. (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
n. (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.
n. (dated, slang) A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up…
n. A puffball.
n. A powder puff.
n. (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
n. (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
n. (derogatory, slang, Britain, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof.
n. (slang, dated, Britain) Life.
v. (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
v. (intransitive) To pant.
v. (transitive, archaic) To advertise.
v. To blow as an expression of scorn.
v. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
v. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
v. To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
v. To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
v. To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
v. To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
v. To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

pull

interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
n. An act of pulling (applying force).
n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
n. A journey made by rowing.
n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
n. (slang) The act of drinking.
n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
v. To attract or net; to pull in.
v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
v. (intransitive) To row.
v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

pulling

v. present participle of pull.
n. The act by which something is pulled.

quarter

adj. Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
adj. (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
adj. (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
n. Any fourth of something, particularly.
n. Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly.
v. (transitive) To divide into quarters.
v. (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
v. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
v. (transitive) To quartersaw.
v. (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut…

raise

v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
n. A cairn or pile of stones.

reap

v. (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
v. (transitive) to gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
v. (transitive)To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
v. (transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
n. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

remove

v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
v. (transitive) To murder.
v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
n. The act of removing something.
n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
n. Distance in time or space; interval.
n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

represent

v. (transitive) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit…
v. (transitive) To portray visually; to delineate.
v. (transitive) To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of.
v. (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise…
v. (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.).
v. (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement…
v. (transitive) To give an account of; to describe.
v. (transitive) To serve as a sign or symbol of.
v. (transitive) To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended;…
v. (transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something…
v. (transitive) To constitute, to make up, to be a example of.
v. (sports, transitive) To participate as a team member.
v. (intransitive) (African American Vernacular) To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people;…

require

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

run

v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
v. (fluids) To flow.
v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
v. (social) To carry out an activity.
v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
v. To have growth or development.
v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
n. A pleasure trip.
n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
n. Migration (of fish).
n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
n. A (regular) trip or route.
n. The route taken while running or skiing.
n. The distance sailed by a ship.
n. A voyage.
n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
n. A trial.
n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
n. Any sudden large demand for something.
n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
n. (cricket) A point scored.
n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
n. Unrestricted use of.
n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
n. A pair or set of millstones.
n. (video games) A playthrough.
n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
adj. Cast in a mould.
adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

running

adj. Moving or advancing by running.
adj. successive; one following the other without break or intervention.
adj. Flowing; easy; cursive.
adj. Continuous; keeping along step by step.
adj. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
adj. (medicine) Discharging pus.
adj. (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
adv. (informal) consecutively; in a row.
n. The action of the verb to run.
n. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
n. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
n. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
v. present participle of run.

select

adj. Privileged, specially selected.
adj. Of high quality; top-notch.
v. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
v. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

shape

n. The status or condition of something.
n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
n. Form; formation.
n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

shut

v. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
v. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
v. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be…
v. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
adj. closed.
n. The act or time of shutting; close.
n. A door or cover; a shutter.
n. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
n. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between…

standoff

n. A device which maintains a fixed distance between two objects, especially between a surface and a sign…
n. A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists (see stand off and verb below).
v. Nonstandard spelling of stand off.

steep

adj. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
adj. (informal) expensive.
adj. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
adj. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove…
v. (intransitive) To imbue with something.
n. A liquid used in a steeping process.
n. A rennet bag.

stretch

v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
v. (transitive) To pull tight.
v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
v. (transitive) To increase.
v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
n. An act of stretching.
n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
n. A segment of a journey or route.
n. A segment or length of material.
n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
n. A length of time.
n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

string

n. (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
n. (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
n. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
n. A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession;…
n. (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
n. (countable) A series of items or events.
n. (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
n. (countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable…
n. (music, countable) A stringed instrument.
n. (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those…
n. (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively.
n. (countable, physics) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
n. (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
n. Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball…
n. The points made in a game of billiards.
n. (billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play,…
n. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
n. (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
n. (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
n. (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and…
n. (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
n. (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
n. (architecture) A stringcourse.
n. (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
v. (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
v. (transitive) To put strings on (something).
v. (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are…

suck

n. An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
n. (vulgar) Fellatio of a penis.
n. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who won't go along, especially out of spite; a crybaby…
n. A sycophant, especially a child.
v. (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
v. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
v. (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
v. (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
v. (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb…
v. (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
v. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
v. (intransitive, slang) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used…

swing

v. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
v. (intransitive) To dance.
v. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
v. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
v. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
v. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
v. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
v. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
v. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
v. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than…
v. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
v. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
v. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
v. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
v. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
v. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
n. The manner in which something is swung.
n. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
n. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
n. A dance style.
n. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
n. The amount of change towards or away from something.
n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
n. The diameter that a lathe can cut.
n. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
n. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
n. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in…
n. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
n. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.

take

v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
v. (transitive) To remove.
v. (transitive) To have sex with.
v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
v. (transitive) To consume.
v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
v. (transitive) To require.
v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
v. (transitive) To move into.
v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
v. (transitive) To deal with.
v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
n. The or an act of taking.
n. Something that is taken; a haul.
n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

thin

adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
v. To dilute.
v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

thread

n. A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving…
n. A theme or idea.
n. (engineering) A screw thread.
n. A sequence of connections.
n. The line midway between the banks of a stream.
n. (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources…
n. (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first…
n. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
n. (figuratively) Composition; quality; fineness.
v. (transitive) To put thread through.
v. (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
v. To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.

tie

n. A knot; a fastening.
n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

trace

n. An act of tracing.
n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
n. A very small amount.
n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
v. To follow the history of.
v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…

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.

withdraw

v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
v. (intransitive) To retreat.
v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

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.

Synonyms of the word

draw

absorb

alter

arouse

arrange

ask

attract

attraction

attractor

be

cast

change

choose

close

compose

create

deform

delineate

demand

depict

derive

describe

disembowel

displace

drag

draw

effect

effectuate

elicit

enkindle

entertainer

equal

equalise

equalize

equate

eviscerate

evoke

exposit

expound

finish

fire

force

form

gain

get

go

guide

gully

haul

haulage

hook

hooking

imbibe

indite

infuse

inhale

inspire

interpret

involve

kill

kindle

line

localise

localize

locomote

lot

make

mark

match

modify

move

necessitate

need

object

pass

pen

poker

postulate

provoke