Synonyms of the word

gad

• interj. An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.
• v. (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
• n. A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
• n. (obsolete) A metal bar.
• n. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
• n. (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the…
• n. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
• n. (Britain, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive…

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.

drift

• n. (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
• n. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
• n. A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
• n. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention;…
• n. (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
• n. (handiwork) A tool.
• n. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
• n. (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an…
• n. (nautical) Movement.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
• v. (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
• v. (transitive) To drive into heaps.
• v. (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
• v. (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence…
• v. (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
• v. To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner…

gallivant

• v. (intransitive) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To flirt, to romance.

goad

• n. A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
• v. To prod with a goad.
• v. To encourage or stimulate.
• v. To incite or provoke.

prod

• v. To poke, to push, to touch.
• v. To encourage, to prompt.
• n. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
• n. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
• n. A poke.
• n. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
• n. (computing, programming) production.

ramble

• n. A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
• n. A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
• n. (mining) A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
• n. A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.
• v. To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.
• v. To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
• v. To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.

range

• n. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
• n. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
• n. Selection, array.
• n. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
• n. An area for military training or equipment testing.
• n. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
• n. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
• n. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
• n. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
• n. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
• n. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference…
• n. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
• n. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
• n. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
• n. (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
• n. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
• n. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
• n. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
• n. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian…
• n. The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
• n. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
• v. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
• v. (transitive) To rove over or through.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to,…
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition)…
• v. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the…
• v. (transitive) To classify.
• v. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
• v. (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose…
• v. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively…
• v. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
• v. To separate into parts; to sift.
• v. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
• v. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

roam

• v. (intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• v. (intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or…
• v. (transitive) To range or wander over.

roll

• v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
• v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
• v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
• v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
• v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
• v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
• v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
• v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
• v. (computing) To generate a random number.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
• v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• v. To have a rolling aspect.
• v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• n. That which rolls; a roller.
• n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
• n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
• n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.

rove

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
• v. (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
• v. (transitive) To roam or wander through.
• v. (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
• v. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
• v. To draw through an eye or aperture.
• v. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
• v. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
• n. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
• n. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a…
• n. The act of wandering; a ramble.
• v. simple past tense of rive.

spur

• n. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse…
• n. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse.
• n. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
• n. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into…
• n. Roots, tree roots.
• n. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction,…
• n. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of…
• n. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
• n. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
• n. (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon…
• n. Ergotized rye or other grain.
• n. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
• n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted…
• n. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot…
• n. (mining) A branch of a vein.
• v. To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
• v. To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to…
• v. To put spurs on.
• n. (Scotland) A sparrow.
• n. A tern.
• n. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath…
• n. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.

stray

• n. Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is…
• n. (figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
• n. The act of wandering or going astray.
• n. (historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e…
• v. (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
• v. (intransitive) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
• v. (transitive) To cause to stray.
• adj. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering.
• adj. In the wrong place; misplaced.

swan

• n. Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage.
• n. (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
• n. (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms…
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
• v. (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).

tramp

• n. (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
• n. (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
• n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
• n. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
• n. (in apposition): Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted.
• v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
• v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
• v. To hitchhike.
• v. (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
• v. (transitive) To travel or wander through.
• v. (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

vagabond

• n. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
• n. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without…
• v. To roam, as a vagabond.
• adj. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

wander

• v. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
• v. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
• v. (intransitive) To commit adultery.
• v. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
• v. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
• n. The act or instance of wandering.