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Synonyms of the word 
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- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
- v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
- v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
- v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
- v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- v. To be going on, to be occurring.
- n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
accept- v. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- v. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- v. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- v. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- v. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- v. (transitive) To endure patiently.
- v. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- v. (transitive) To receive officially.
- v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
- adj. (obsolete) Accepted.
accord- n. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- n. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- n. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- n. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated,…
- n. (international law) An international agreement.
- n. (obsolete) Assent.
- n. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
- v. (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- v. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- v. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
- v. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- v. (transitive, dated, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
administer- v. (transitive) To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
- v. (transitive) To apportion out.
- v. (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the…
- v. (intransitive) To minister (to).
- v. (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
- v. To tender, as an oath.
- v. (medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.
afford- v. To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be…
- v. To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too…
- v. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
- v. To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
allot- v. (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
- v. (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.
allow- v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
- v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
- v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
- v. To not bar or obstruct.
- v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
- v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
- v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
- v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
apply- v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
- v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
- v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
- v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
- v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
- v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
- v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
- v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
- v. (obsolete) To visit.
- adj. Alternative spelling of appley.
approximate- adj. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
- adj. Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
- v. To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
- v. To come near to; to approach.
- v. To estimate.
break- v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
- v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
- v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
- v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
- v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
- v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
- v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
- v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
- v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
- v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
- v. (sports and games).
- v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
- v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
- v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
- v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
- v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
- v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
- n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
- n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
- n. A short holiday.
- n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
- n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- n. The beginning (of the morning).
- n. An act of escaping.
- n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
- n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- n. (sports and games).
- n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
- n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
- n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…
cater- v. (transitive) To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
- v. (transitive, often with to) To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
- n. (obsolete) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
- v. (obsolete) To cut diagonally.
- n. (card games, dice games) The four of cards or dice.
cerebrate- v. To think or cogitate; especially so as to make inferences or decisions or to solve problems.
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.
cogitate- v. (intransitive) To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
- v. (transitive) To consider, to devise.
collapse- v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
- v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- n. The act of collapsing.
- n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
commit- v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
- v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
- v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
- v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
- v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
- v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
- n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…
communicate- v. To impart.
- v. To share.
compensate- v. To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
- v. To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy;…
- v. To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
consecrate- v. To declare something holy, or otherwise make it holy.
- adj. Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
consent- v. To express willingness, to give permission.
- v. (medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
- v. (obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
- v. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
- n. Voluntary agreement or permission.
- n. (obsolete) Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
contribute- v. To give something, that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
countenance- n. Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
- n. Favour; support; encouragement.
- n. (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
- n. calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
- v. (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
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.
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.
dedicate- v. (transitive) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate.
- v. (transitive) To set apart for a special use.
- v. (transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action.
- v. (transitive) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or…
- v. (transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use.
- v. (transitive) To show to the public for the first time.
- adj. (obsolete) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.
devote- v. To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.
- v. To consign over; to doom.
- v. To execrate; to curse.
- adj. (obsolete) Devoted; addicted; devout.
direct- adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
- adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
- adj. Straightforward; sincere.
- adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
- adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
- adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
- adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
- adv. Directly.
- v. To manage, control, steer.
- v. To aim (something) at (something else).
- v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
- v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
- v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…
dispense- v. To issue, distribute, or put out.
- v. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
- v. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- v. To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with.
- v. (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
- n. (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
- n. (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
distribute- v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
- v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
drink- v. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- v. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- v. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
- n. A beverage.
- n. A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- n. A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- n. Alcoholic beverages in general.
- n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
- n. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink.
elasticity- n. (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions…
- n. (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- n. The quality of being elastic.
- n. Adaptability.
emit- v. (transitive) To send out or give off.
employ- n. The state of being an employee; employment.
- v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
- v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
- v. To make busy.
establish- v. (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
- v. (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
- v. (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
- v. (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
estimate- n. A rough calculation or guess.
- n. (construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job will probably…
- n. An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
- v. To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
- v. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
evince- v. (transitive) To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.
execute- v. (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
- v. (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- v. (transitive) To perform.
- v. (transitive) To cause to become legally valid.
- v. (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run.
express- adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
- adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
- adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
- adj. (retail) Being a merchant offering a smaller selection of goods than a full or complete dealer of the…
- n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
- n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
- n. An express rifle.
- n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
- n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
- n. An express office.
- n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
- v. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
- v. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
- v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
- v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
- n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
- n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
feed- v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- v. To supply with something.
- v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
- v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
- n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
- n. Something supplied continuously.
- n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
- n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.
founder- n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something…
- n. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
- n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- n. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- v. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
- v. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
- v. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- v. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
- v. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or…
free- adj. (social) Unconstrained.
- adj. Obtainable without any payment.
- adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
- adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
- adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
- adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
- adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted…
- adj. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
- adj. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
- adv. Without needing to pay.
- adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
- v. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or…
- n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
- n. free transfer.
- n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts…
furnish- n. Material used to create an engineered product.
- v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.
gauge- n. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
- n. An act of measuring.
- n. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things.
- n. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
- n. (rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.
- n. (mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector…
- n. (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- n. (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- n. (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- n. (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- n. That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of…
- n. (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be…
- n. (slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat…
- n. A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- v. (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- v. (transitive) To estimate.
- v. (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- v. (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- v. (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- v. (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
generate- v. (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- v. (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
- v. (transitive) To procreate, beget.
- v. (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- v. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
gift- n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
- n. A talent or natural ability.
- n. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
- n. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
- v. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
- v. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.
give- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
- v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
- v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
- v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
- v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- v. To be going on, to be occurring.
- n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
grant- v. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer…
- v. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
- v. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
- v. To assent; to consent.
- n. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
- n. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
- n. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
- n. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the…
- n. the deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
- n. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
guess- v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
- v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
- n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
hand- n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other…
- n. (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
- n. (heading) In linear measurement.
- n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special…
- n. An instance of helping.
- n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- n. A person's autograph or signature.
- n. Personal possession; ownership.
- n. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
- n. (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
- n. Applause.
- n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar,…
- n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
- n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of…
- n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
- n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
- n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
- v. (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- v. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
- v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
- v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
hap- n. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or…
- v. (intransitive, literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
- v. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
- n. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small…
- v. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
- n. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
happen- v. To occur or take place.
- v. To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
- v. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
- adv. (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
have- v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
- v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
- v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
- v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
- v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
- v. (transitive) To give birth to.
- v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
- v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
- v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
- v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
- v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
- v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
- v. To trick, to deceive.
- v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
- v. (transitive) To host someone.
hold- adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
- v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- v. (transitive) To contain or store.
- v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
- v. To take place, to occur.
- v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
- n. A grasp or grip.
- n. A place where animals are held for safety.
- n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- n. Something reserved or kept.
- n. Power over someone or something.
- n. The ability to persist.
- n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
- n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
- n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
- n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).
impart- v. To give a part or share.
- v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
- v. To hold a conference or consultation.
- v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.
impose- v. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
- v. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience.
- v. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
- v. To practice a trick or deception.
- v. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
- v. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns…
indemnify- v. To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
- v. (chiefly law) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.
- v. (obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm.
inflict- v. To thrust upon; to impose.
intercommunicate- v. To communicate, one with another.
- v. To be interconnected.
judge- n. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering…
- n. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- n. A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
- n. A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
- v. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
- v. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- v. (transitive) To form an opinion on.
- v. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- v. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- v. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
lead- n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
- n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
- n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
- n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
- v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
- v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
- v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
- v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- v. To produce (with to).
- v. Misspelling of led.
- n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
- n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
- n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
- n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- n. (countable, mining) A lode.
- n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
- n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
- n. Charging lead.
- n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
- n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
- n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
- n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
- n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
- n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
- n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
- n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
- n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
- n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
- adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
- adj. (music) main, principal.
- v. Misspelling of led.
leave- v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
- v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
- v. (heading) To transfer something.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
- n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
- n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
- n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- n. (dated or law) Permission.
- n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
- v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
- v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
- v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.
let- v. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
- v. (transitive) To leave.
- v. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
- v. (transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
- v. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
- v. (transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
- v. (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
- n. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
- v. (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
- v. (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
- v. (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
- n. An obstacle or hindrance.
- n. (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
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.
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…
occur- v. To happen or take place.
- v. To present or offer (itself).
- v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
- v. (sciences) To be present or found.
offer- n. A proposal that has been made.
- n. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
- n. (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms…
- v. (transitive) To present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
- v. (transitive) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
- v. (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
- v. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
- v. (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
- v. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
- v. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
- v. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
- v. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
- n. (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off.
open- adj. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
- adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
- adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- adj. (comparable) Receptive.
- adj. (not comparable) Public.
- adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
- adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
- adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
- adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty…
- adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
- adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects…
- v. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
- v. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
- v. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
- v. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
- v. (intransitive) To become open.
- v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
- v. To enter upon; to begin.
- v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
- v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
- v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
- v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
- n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
- n. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
- n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
- n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
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).
pay- v. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due…
- v. (transitive) To be profitable for.
- v. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
- adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
- adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
- v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a…
perform- v. To do something; to execute.
- v. To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
permit- v. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
- v. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
- v. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
- v. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
- v. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
- v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
- v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for…
- n. (obsolete) Formal permission.
- n. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
- n. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.
pledge- v. To make a solemn promise (to do something).
- v. To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
- v. (transitive) To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
- n. A solemn promise to do something.
- n. Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept…
- n. A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.
- n. A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
- n. A drinking toast.
- n. (with the) A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.
ply- n. A layer of material.
- n. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
- n. (colloquial) Plywood.
- n. (artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made…
- n. (now chiefly Scotland) State, condition.
- v. (transitive) To bend; to fold.
- v. (intransitive) To flex.
- v. (transitive) To work at diligently.
- v. (intransitive) To work diligently.
- v. (transitive) To use vigorously.
- v. (transitive) To travel over regularly.
- v. (transitive) To persist in offering something to.
- v. (transitive) To press upon; to urge importunately.
- v. (transitive) To employ diligently; to use steadily.
- v. (nautical) To work to windward; to beat.
present- adj. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
- adj. Located in the immediate vicinity.
- adj. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
- adj. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
- adj. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
- adj. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
- adj. Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the…
- adj. Attentive; alert; focused.
- n. The current moment or period of time.
- n. The present tense.
- n. A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other…
- n. (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
- v. To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
- v. (transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop…
- v. (transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
- v. (transitive, now rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
- v. (reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
- v. (transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
- v. (transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
- v. (transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).
- v. (transitive, military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
- v. (reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
- v. (intransitive, medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
- v. (intransitive, medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the…
- v. (intransitive, with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
- v. (transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
- v. (transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
- v. (transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
- v. (transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
- v. (transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
produce- v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
- v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
- v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
- n. Items produced.
- n. Amount produced.
- n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
- n. Offspring.
- n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
proffer- n. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
- n. (law) Something that is offered into evidence; an offer to which one is willing to testify under oath.
- n. Essay; attempt.
- v. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
- v. To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
provide- v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- v. To act to prepare for something.
- v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
- v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
- v. To make possible or attainable.
- v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
- v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
reach- v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
- v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
- v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
- v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
- v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
- v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
- v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
- v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
- v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
- v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
- n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
- n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
- n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
- n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- n. An effort to vomit; a retching.
recompense- n. An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
- n. That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
- v. To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
- v. To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
- v. (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
release- n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked…
- n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product;…
- n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- n. That which is released, untied or let go.
- n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
- n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be…
- n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
- v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- v. To make available to the public.
- v. To free or liberate; to set free.
- v. To discharge.
- v. (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
- v. (law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying…
- v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity.
- v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
- v. (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
relinquish- v. (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.
- v. (transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
- v. (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
- v. (transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
render- v. (transitive) To cause to become.
- v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
- v. (transitive) To pass down.
- v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
- v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
- v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
- v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
- v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
- v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
- v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
- n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
- n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
- n. (obsolete) A surrender.
- n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
- n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
- n. One who rends.
repair- n. The act of repairing something.
- n. The result of repairing something.
- n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
- v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
- v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
- n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
- v. To transfer oneself to another place.
- v. to pair again.
resign- v. (transitive) To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
- v. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.
return- v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
- v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
- v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
- v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
- v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- n. The act of returning.
- n. A return ticket.
- n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- n. An answer.
- n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
- n. Gain or loss from an investment.
- n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
- n. (computing) A carriage return character.
- n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…
sacrifice- v. (transitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
- v. (transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of…
- v. (transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else…
- v. (transitive, chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded,…
- v. (dated, tradesmen's slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
- v. To destroy; to kill.
- n. The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
- n. Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object…
- n. Something sacrificed.
- n. (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the…
- n. A loss of profit.
- n. (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
salute- n. A formal gesture made in honor of someone or something, usually with the hand or hands in one of various…
- n. Any action performed for the purpose of honor or tribute.
- v. To make a gesture in honor of someone or something.
- v. To act in thanks, honor, or tribute; to thank or extend gratitude; to praise.
- v. (Ireland, informal) to wave, to acknowledge an acquaintance.
- v. To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
- v. To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
say- v. (transitive) To pronounce.
- v. (transitive) To recite.
- v. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- v. To indicate in a written form.
- v. (impersonal) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate…
- v. (informal, imperative) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- v. (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- v. (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension,…
- n. One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.
- adv. For example; let us assume.
- interj. (colloquial) Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion.
- n. A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
- v. To try; to assay.
- n. Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
- n. Tried quality; temper; proof.
- n. Essay; trial; attempt.
show- v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
- v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
- v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
- v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
- v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
- v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
- n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
- n. (countable) A demonstration.
- n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
- n. (countable) A movie.
- n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
- n. A project or presentation.
- n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
- n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
- n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
- n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
snap- n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- n. A sudden break.
- n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
- n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
- n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
- n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
- n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
- n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
- n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
- n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
- n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
- n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
- n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
- n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
- n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
- v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
- v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
- v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
- v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
- v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
- v. To misfire.
- v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
- interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
- interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
- interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
- interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
- adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.
spring- v. To jump or leap.
- v. To pass over by leaping.
- v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
- v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
- v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
- v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
- v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
- v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
- v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
- v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
- v. To fly back.
- v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
- v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
- v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
- v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
- v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
- v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
- n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
- n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
- n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
- n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
- n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
- n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
- n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
- n. Elastic power or force.
- n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
- n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
- n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
- n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
- n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
- n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
- n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
- n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
- n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
springiness- n. The property of being springy.
state- n. A polity.
- n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- n. High social standing or circumstance.
- n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
- v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
- v. (transitive) To make known.
- adj. (obsolete) stately.
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…
subject- adj. Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
- adj. Conditional upon.
- adj. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- adj. Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- n. (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses…
- n. An actor; one who takes action.
- n. The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- n. A particular area of study.
- n. A citizen in a monarchy.
- n. A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- n. (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- n. A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
- n. (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with…
- n. (logic) That of which something is stated.
- v. (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially…
submit- v. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
- v. (transitive, mixed martial arts) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.
supply- v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
- n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
- n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
- n. (in the plural) provisions.
- n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
- n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
tell- v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- v. (transitive) To narrate.
- v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
- v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
- v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- v. (transitive) To reveal.
- v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
- v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
- v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
- n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
- n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
- n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
think- v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
- v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
- v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
- v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
- v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- v. To presume; to venture.
- n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
- v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
throw- v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
- v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
- v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
- v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
- v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
- v. (transitive) To imprison.
- v. To organize an event, especially a party.
- v. To roll (a die or dice).
- v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
- v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
- v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
- v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
- v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
- v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
- n. The flight of a thrown object.
- n. The act of throwing something.
- n. One's ability to throw.
- n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
- n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
- n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
- v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
- n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
- n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
- n. Misspelling of throe.
toast- n. (uncountable) Toasted bread.
- n. (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
- n. (countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or…
- n. (slang, chiefly US, uncountable) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction,…
- n. (slang, Jamaica) Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- n. (computing, graphical user interface) A transient, pop-up informational window.
- v. To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
- v. To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster.
- v. To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone…
- v. To warm thoroughly.
- v. (slang, Jamaica) To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
transfer- v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
- n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
- n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
- n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
- n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
- n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
use- n. The act of using.
- n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
- n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
- n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
- n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
- n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
- n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
- v. To accustom; to habituate.
- v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
- v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
- v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
- v. (transitive) To exploit.
- v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
- v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
- v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
- v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
- v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
utilise- v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
- v. To make use of; to use.
- v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
- v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.
utilize- v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.
utter- adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
- adj. (obsolete) Outward.
- adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
- v. (transitive) To say.
- v. (transitive) To use the voice.
- v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
- v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
- v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
- adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.
visit- v. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally…
- v. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
- v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
- v. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
- v. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
- v. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below…
- v. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
- n. A single act of visiting.
- n. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
wassail- n. A toast to health, usually at a festival.
- n. The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar,…
- n. Revelry.
- n. A festive or drinking song or glee.
- v. (transitive) To toast, to drink to the health of another.
- v. (intransitive) To drink wassail.
- v. To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols.
yield- v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
- v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
- v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
- v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
- v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
- n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
- n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
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