Synonyms of the word flock


FLOCKASSEMBLE - BATCH - CLUMP - CLUSTER - CONGREGATION - CONSTELLATE - CROWD - DEAL - FAITHFUL - FOLD - FOREGATHER - FORGATHER - GATHER - GO - HATFUL - HEAP - LOCOMOTE - LOT - MASS - MEET - MESS - MICKLE - MINT - MOVE - MUCKLE - PECK - PILE - PLENTY - POT - RAFT - SIGHT - SLEW - SPATE - STACK - TRAVEL - TROOP - WAD

flock

  • n. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
  • n. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
  • n. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
  • n. A large number of people.
  • v. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
  • v. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
  • n. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
  • n. A lock of wool or hair.
  • n. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating…
  • v. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

assemble

  • v. (transitive) To put together.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather as a group.
  • v. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code.

batch

  • n. A bank; a sandbank.
  • n. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
  • n. (obsolete) The process of baking.
  • n. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
  • n. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
  • n. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
  • n. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
  • n. (Philippines) A graduating class.
  • v. To aggregate things together into a batch.
  • v. (computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
  • adj. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
  • v. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

clump

  • n. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
  • n. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
  • n. A dull thud.
  • n. The compressed clay of coal strata.
  • n. A small group of trees or plants.
  • v. (transitive) To form clusters or lumps.
  • v. (transitive) To gather into thick groups.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.

cluster

  • n. A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
  • n. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
  • n. (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
  • n. (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
  • n. (phonetics) A group of consonants.
  • n. (computing) A group of computers that work together.
  • n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
  • n. (statistics) A significant subset within a population.
  • n. (military) Set of bombs or mines.
  • n. (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
  • n. (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk…
  • v. (intransitive) To form a cluster or group.

congregation

  • n. The act of congregating or collecting together.
  • n. A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also…
  • n. A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic church.
  • n. A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
  • n. Any large gathering of people.
  • n. A group of eagles.
  • n. (Britain, Oxford University slang) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative…

constellate

  • v. (transitive) To combine as a cluster.
  • v. (transitive) To fit, adorn (as if) with constellations.
  • v. (intransitive) To (form a) cluster.
  • v. (intransitive) To shine with united radiance, or one general light.

crowd

  • v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  • v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
  • v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  • v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
  • v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
  • v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  • v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  • v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  • n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  • n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  • n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  • n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  • n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
  • n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

deal

  • n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
  • n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  • v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  • v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  • v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  • v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  • v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  • v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
  • n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
  • n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  • n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
  • n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  • n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  • n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  • n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  • n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
  • adj. Made of deal.

faithful

  • adj. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
  • adj. Having faith.
  • adj. Reliable; worthy of trust.
  • adj. Consistent with reality.
  • adj. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
  • n. (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
  • n. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.

fold

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

foregather

  • v. Alternative form of forgather.

forgather

  • v. (intransitive) To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.

gather

  • v. To collect; normally separate things.
  • v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
  • v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
  • v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
  • v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
  • v. To gain; to win.
  • n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
  • n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
  • n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
  • n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

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…

hatful

  • n. The amount that will fit into a hat.
  • n. (soccer, Britain) A large number (usually talking about goalscoring chances).

heap

  • n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  • n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  • n. A great number or large quantity of things.
  • n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  • n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  • n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  • n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
  • v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
  • v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

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).

mass

  • n. (physical) Matter, material.
  • n. A large quantity; a sum.
  • n. (quantity) Large in number.
  • v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
  • v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
  • adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
  • adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
  • n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
  • n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
  • n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

meet

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

mess

  • n. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
  • n. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one…
  • n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel…
  • n. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
  • n. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
  • v. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
  • v. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
  • v. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
  • v. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
  • n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding;…
  • n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
  • n. (euphemistic) Excrement.
  • v. (transitive) To make a mess of.
  • v. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
  • v. (intransitive) To interfere.

mickle

  • n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
  • n. (Scotland) A small amount.
  • n. (obsolete) Important or great people as a class.
  • n. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.
  • pron. (now chiefly Scotland) A large amount or great extent.
  • adv. (now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.
  • adv. (obsolete) Often, frequently.

mint

  • v. (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
  • v. (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try…
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
  • n. (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
  • n. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
  • n. (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
  • n. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
  • v. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
  • v. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
  • adj. (of condition) as new.
  • adj. (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
  • adj. (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Very good.
  • n. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
  • n. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
  • n. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
  • n. A green colour, like that of mint.
  • n. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
  • adj. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

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…

muckle

  • n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
  • adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
  • adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
  • v. (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
  • v. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

peck

  • v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
  • v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
  • v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
  • v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
  • v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
  • v. To type by searching for each key individually.
  • v. (rare) To type in general.
  • v. To kiss briefly.
  • n. An act of pecking.
  • n. A small kiss.
  • n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
  • n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
  • v. (regional) To throw.
  • v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
  • n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
  • n. Misspelling of pec.

pile

  • n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  • n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
  • n. A mass formed in layers.
  • n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  • n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
  • n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
  • n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  • n. (figuratively) A list or league.
  • v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
  • v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  • v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  • v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  • v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
  • n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  • n. The head of an arrow or spear.
  • n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
  • n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
  • v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
  • n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
  • n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
  • n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

plenty

  • n. A more than adequate amount.
  • pron. More than enough.
  • adv. More than sufficiently.
  • adv. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
  • adj. (obsolete) plentiful.

pot

  • n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
  • n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly.
  • n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
  • n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
  • n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail…
  • n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively)…
  • n. (Britain, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
  • n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
  • n. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
  • n. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
  • n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
  • n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
  • v. To put (something) into a pot.
  • v. To preserve by bottling or canning.
  • v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted.
  • v. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
  • v. (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  • v. (obsolete, dialect, Britain) To tipple; to drink.
  • v. (transitive) To drain.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during…
  • v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
  • n. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to…
  • n. (role-playing games) Clipping of potion.

raft

  • n. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies…
  • n. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
  • n. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
  • n. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
  • v. (transitive) to convey on a raft.
  • v. (transitive) to make into a raft.
  • v. (intransitive) to travel by raft.
  • n. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of reave.

sight

  • n. (in the singular) The ability to see.
  • n. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
  • n. Something seen.
  • n. Something worth seeing; a spectacle.
  • n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
  • n. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
  • n. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
  • n. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame…
  • n. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
  • n. Mental view; opinion; judgment.
  • v. (transitive) To register visually.
  • v. (transitive) To get sight of (something).
  • v. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction…
  • v. (transitive) To take aim at.

slew

  • n. (US) A large amount.
  • n. The act, or process of slaying.
  • n. A device used for slaying.
  • n. A change of position.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
  • v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
  • v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
  • v. (intransitive) To pivot.
  • v. (intransitive) To skid.
  • v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
  • v. simple past tense of slay.
  • n. A wet place; a river inlet.

spate

  • n. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
  • n. A sudden rush or increase.

stack

  • n. (heading) A pile.
  • n. A smokestack.
  • n. (heading) In digital computing.
  • n. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
  • n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
  • n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
  • n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
  • n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
  • n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
  • n. (heading) In architecture.
  • n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
  • n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  • v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
  • v. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  • v. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  • v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

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.

troop

  • n. (collective) A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
  • n. (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company…
  • n. A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
  • n. Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
  • n. (nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
  • n. (Scouting) A basic unit of girl or boy scouts, consisting of 6 to 10 youngsters.
  • n. (collective) A group of baboons.
  • n. A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
  • n. (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
  • v. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
  • v. To march on; to go forward in haste.
  • v. To move or march as if in a crowd.

wad

  • n. An amorphous, compact mass.
  • n. A substantial pile (normally of money).
  • n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
  • n. (slang) A sandwich.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
  • n. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…
  • v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
  • v. (Ulster) To wager.
  • v. To insert or force a wad into.
  • v. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

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