Synonym of the word HOLD

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).

accommodate

v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

adjudge

v. To declare to be.
v. To deem or determine to be.
v. To award judicially; to assign.

admit

v. (transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration;…
v. (transitive) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for…
v. (transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible…
v. (transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
v. (intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
v. (transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

affirm

v. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
v. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
v. To support or encourage.
v. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or…

agree

v. (intransitive) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become…
v. (intransitive) To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
v. (transitive, Britain, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
v. (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange…
v. (intransitive) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
v. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
v. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
v. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

aim

n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the…
n. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
n. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
n. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
n. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
v. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or…
v. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try…
v. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act,…
v. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group.
v. (obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
n. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

appendage

n. an external body part that projects from the body.
n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
n. a part that is joined to something larger.

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.

appreciation

n. A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
n. Accurate perception; true estimation.
n. A rise in value.

apprehension

n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

arrest

n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
n. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
n. A device to physically arrest motion.
n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
v. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
v. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
v. (transitive) To catch the attention of.

assert

n. (computer science) an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is…
v. To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
v. To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
v. To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
v. (computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1.

aver

n. (obsolete) Possessions, property, belongings, wealth.
v. To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
v. (law) To prove or justify a plea.
v. (obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify.
n. (dialectal) A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden.

avow

v. (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess…
v. (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.
v. (law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
n. (obsolete) avowal.

be

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

bear

n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
v. (transitive) To carry something.
v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
v. (transitive) To wear or display.
v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
v. (transitive) To put up with something.
v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

becharm

v. (transitive, archaic) To charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.

beguile

v. (transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).
v. (transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.

believe

v. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
v. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
v. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

bespeak

v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

bewitch

v. to cast a spell on someone or something.
v. to astonish, amaze.

bind

v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
v. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
v. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
v. (transitive) To couple.
v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other…
v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or…
v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
v. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
v. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
v. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method…
n. That which binds or ties.
n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

book

n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material,…
n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published…
n. A major division of a long work.
n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
n. (theater) The script of a musical.
n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
n. (law) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class…
n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
n. (poker slang) four of a kind.
n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
n. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
v. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
v. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence…
v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been…
v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
v. To record bets as bookmaker.
v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
v. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake.

booze

n. (slang, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage.
n. (slang, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.
v. (slang) To drink alcohol.

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…

captivate

v. To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
v. (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

capture

n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
v. To reproduce convincingly.
v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

carry

v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
v. To be pregnant (with).
v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

catch

n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
v. (heading) To seize hold of.
v. (heading) To intercept.
v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

cell

n. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
n. (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
n. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
n. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
n. (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
n. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source…
n. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
n. (obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
n. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
n. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of…
n. (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a…
n. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
n. (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
n. (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
n. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
n. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.
n. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
n. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
n. (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
n. (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
n. (architecture) A cella.
n. (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
v. (transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
n. (US, informal) A cellular phone.

charm

n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

check

n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
n. An inspection or examination.
n. A control; a limit or stop.
n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
n. A small chink or crack.
v. To inspect; to examine.
v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
v. To control, limit, or halt.
v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
v. To leave in safekeeping.
v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
v. To act as a curb or restraint.
v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

clasp

n. A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.
n. (in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.
v. (transitive) To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly.
v. To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.

clench

n. Tight grip.
n. (engineering) A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
n. A local chapter of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion.
v. To squeeze; to grip or hold tightly.
v. To move two parts of something against each other.

clutch

v. To seize, as though with claws.
v. To grip or grasp tightly.
n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
n. (US) An important or critical situation.
adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
n. A group or bunch (of people or things).

clutches

n. plural of clutch.
n. (usually in the plural) Grasp; possession; control.
v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clutch.

command

n. An order to do something.
n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

conceive

v. (transitive) To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
v. (transitive) To understand (someone).
v. (intransitive or transitive) To become pregnant.

concern

n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before…
n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
n. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
n. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
v. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of;…
v. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
v. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

concord

n. A state of agreement; harmony; union.
n. (obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
n. (grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person or case.
n. (law, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which…
n. (probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant…
n. A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord…
v. (intransitive) To agree; to act together.

concur

v. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
v. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
v. (obsolete) To run together; to meet.

confine

v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
n. Limit.

confinement

n. the act of confining or the state of being confined.
n. lying-in, time of giving birth.

consider

v. (transitive) To think about seriously.
v. (transitive) To think of doing.
v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
v. (transitive) To look at attentively.
v. (transitive) To take up as an example.
v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

contain

v. (transitive) To hold inside.
v. (transitive) To include as a part.
v. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

continue

v. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
v. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
v. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position etc.
v. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
v. (intransitive) To resume.
v. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
v. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
n. (video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.
n. (programming) a statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements…

control

v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

cover

n. A lid.
n. A hiding from view.
n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
n. A top sheet of a bed.
n. A cover charge.
n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
v. To deal with.
v. To be enough money for.
v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
v. To provide insurance coverage for.
v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

curb

n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
v. (transitive) To rein in.
v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

custody

n. The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
n. Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
n. The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.

declare

v. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
v. (intransitive) To make a declaration.
v. (transitive) To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.
v. (intransitive, cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though…
v. (transitive) To announce something formally or officially.
v. (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result.
v. (transitive) To affirm or state something emphatically.
v. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income,…
v. (transitive) To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
v. (transitive, programming) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing…

deem

v. (transitive, obsolete) To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge; decree.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); administer (law).
v. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration;…
v. (transitive) To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according…
v. (intransitive) To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
n. An opinion; judgement; surmise.

defend

v. (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
v. (transitive) To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
v. (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
v. (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
v. (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing…
v. (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did…
v. (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.

defer

v. (transitive) To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
v. (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half…
v. (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
v. (law) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
v. To render, to offer.

defy

n. (obsolete) A challenge.
v. To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
v. To challenge (someone) to do something difficult or impossible.
v. To refuse to obey.
v. To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.

delay

n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
v. To put off until a later time; to defer.
v. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
v. (obsolete) To allay; to temper.
v. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
v. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

detainment

n. The condition of being detained; detention.

detention

n. (uncountable) The act of detaining or the state of being detained.
n. (countable) A temporary state of custody or confinement, especially of a prisoner awaiting trial, or of…

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…

disable

v. (transitive) To render unable; to take away an ability of.
v. (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
v. to deactivate a function of an electronical or mechanical device.
adj. (obsolete) Lacking ability; unable.

discernment

n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
n. Discrimination.
n. The ability to distinguish between things.
n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
n. The condition of understanding.
n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
n. Perceptiveness.
n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
n. Discretion in judging objectively.

disenable

v. (obsolete, transitive) To disable; to disqualify.

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.

enamor

v. (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love.
v. (mostly in the passive) to captivate;.

enamour

v. Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada spelling of enamor.

enchant

v. To attract and delight, to charm.
v. To cast a spell over.

enclosure

n. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
n. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
n. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
n. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
n. (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
n. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

entertain

v. (transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
v. (transitive and intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
v. (transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
v. (obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
v. (obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
v. (obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
n. (obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.
n. (obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.

entrance

n. (countable) The action of entering, or going in.
n. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
n. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
n. (uncountable) The right to go in.
n. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
n. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
n. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
n. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
n. (music) When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.
v. (transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.
v. (transitive) To put into a trance.

evaluate

v. (transitive) to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
v. (transitive, mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression).
v. (transitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.

exist

v. to be; have existence; have being or reality.

experience

n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…

fascinate

v. To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
v. To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
v. To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.

fastness

n. A secure or fortified place; a stronghold, a fortress.
n. The state of being fast.
n. The ability of a dye to withstand fading.

feel

v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
n. A vague mental impression.
n. An act of fondling.
n. A vague understanding.
n. An intuitive ability.
n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.

fuddle

v. To confuse or befuddle.
v. To intoxicate.
n. Intoxication.
n. Muddle, confusion.
n. (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring…

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.

grasp

v. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
v. To understand.
v. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
n. Grip.
n. Understanding.
n. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

grasping

adj. Greedy, eager for wealth.
v. present participle of grasp.
n. The act of one who grasps or covets.

grip

v. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
v. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
v. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
v. To trench; to drain.
n. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
n. A handle or other place to grip.
n. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or…
n. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
n. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
n. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
n. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
n. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
n. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
n. Assistance; help or encouragement.
n. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
n. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
n. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
n. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
n. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
n. (obsolete) The griffin.

guard

n. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
n. (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
n. The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
n. A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
n. (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
n. (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
n. (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket;…
n. (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles,…
n. (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
n. (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the…
n. (computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution…
v. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
v. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
v. To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
v. To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces,…
v. To fasten by binding; to gird.

halt

v. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
v. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay;…
v. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
v. (intransitive) To stop marching.
v. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
v. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
v. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
n. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
n. (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
adj. (archaic) Lame, limping.
v. To limp.
v. To waver.
v. To falter.
n. (dated) Lameness; a limp.

handgrip

n. A handle.
n. A covering (often rubber or foam) on a handle, designed to allow the user a more comfortable or more secure…
n. A handshake; a way of gripping hands with another person.
n. The ability of a person (or other animal with hands) to grip something with a hand.

handle

n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

harbor

n. (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
n. Any place of shelter.
n. (obsolete) A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.
n. A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may dock or anchor, especially for loading…
n. A mixing box for materials in glass-working.
v. (transitive) To provide a harbor or safe place for.
v. (intransitive) To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
v. (transitive) To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.

harbour

n. Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of harbor.
v. Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of harbor.

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).

incapacitate

v. (transitive) to make incapable (of doing something).

include

v. To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
v. To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.
v. (obsolete) To enclose, confine.
v. (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
v. (programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.
n. (programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another…

intermission

n. A break between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.

interruption

n. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
n. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

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.

keep

v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

maintain

v. (obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
v. To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
v. To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

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.

moderate

adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
adj. Mediocre.
adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

nurse

n. (archaic) A wet-nurse.
n. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
n. A person trained to provide care for the sick.
n. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
n. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
n. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
n. A nurse shark.
v. to breastfeed.
v. to care for the sick.
v. to treat kindly and with extra care.
v. to drink slowly.
v. to foster, to nourish.
v. to hold closely to one's chest.
v. to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.

obligate

v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral…
v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
adj. (biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
adj. Absolutely indispensable; essential.

oblige

v. (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
v. (transitive) To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
v. (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.
v. (intransitive) To do a service or favour.

obtain

v. (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
v. (intransitive) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

pause

v. (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
v. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
v. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
v. (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
n. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
n. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
n. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation…
n. A break or paragraph in writing.
n. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
n. (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate.

pertain

v. (intransitive) to belong to or be a part of; be an adjunct, attribute, or accessory of.
v. (intransitive) to relate, to refer, be relevant to.
v. (intransitive) To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable.

postpone

v. To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.

postponement

n. A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.

prehension

n. the act of grasping or gripping something, especially with the hands.

prevail

v. (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage…
v. (intransitive) To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
v. (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.

prevent

v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

proceed

v. (intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
v. (intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
v. (intransitive) To come from (have as the source or origin).
v. (intransitive) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures;…
v. (intransitive) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
v. (intransitive, of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
v. (law, intransitive) To begin and carry on a legal process.

prorogue

v. (obsolete) To prolong or extend.
v. (transitive, now rare) To defer.
v. (transitive) To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament…

protect

v. To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

quest

n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
v. To search for; to examine.
v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

reckon

v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…

refer

v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

regard

n. (countable) A steady look, a gaze.
n. One's concern for another; esteem.
n. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
n. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value,…
v. To look at; to observe.
v. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
v. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
v. (transitive) To face toward.
v. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern.

relate

v. (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
v. (transitive) To give an association.
v. (transitive) To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
v. (intransitive) To have a connection.
v. (intransitive) To interact.
v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with, understand.
v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

remit

v. To forgive, pardon.
v. To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
v. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To give up; omit; cease doing.
v. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
v. (obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
v. (obsolete) To diminish, abate.
v. To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
v. (obsolete) To send back.
v. (archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
v. To restore or replace.
v. To postpone.
v. To transmit or send, as money in payment.
n. (chiefly Britain) terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

request

n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
n. A formal message requesting something.
n. Condition of being sought after.
n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
v. to express the need or desire for.
v. to ask somebody to do something.

reserve

n. (behaviour) Restriction.
n. That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
n. (social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
n. In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person…
n. (calico printing) A resist.
n. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
v. To keep back; to retain.
v. To keep in store for future or special use.
v. To book in advance; to make a reservation.
v. (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

resist

v. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
v. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
v. (intransitive) To oppose.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
n. A protective coating or covering.

restrain

v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

retain

v. (transitive) To keep in possession or use.
v. (transitive) To keep in one's pay or service.
v. (transitive) To employ by paying a retainer.
v. (transitive) To hold secure.
v. (obsolete) To restrain; to prevent.
v. (obsolete) To belong; to pertain.

savvy

adj. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
v. (informal) To understand.
interj. (informal) Do you understand?
n. Shrewdness.

see

v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
v. To form a mental picture of.
v. (social) To meet, to visit.
v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

seizing

v. present participle of seize.
n. A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
adj. That seizes the attention; impressive.

shelve

v. (transitive) to place on a shelf.
v. (transitive) to set aside, quit, or halt.
v. To furnish with shelves.
v. (slang) To take (drugs) by anal insertion.
v. (Wales, slang) To have sex with.
n. A rocky ledge or shelf.

stop

v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
v. (intransitive) To not continue.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
v. (intransitive) To tarry.
v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
n. (photography) An f-stop.
n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
interj. halt! stop!
punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

stronghold

n. A fortress.
n. A place of refuge, survival or domination by a particular group or idea.

support

n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
n. Financial or other help.
n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
n. Evidence.
n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

suppress

v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
v. To prevent publication.
v. To stop a flow or stream.
v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

suspension

n. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
n. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
n. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a…
n. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
n. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly…
n. (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which…
n. (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted…
n. (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an…
n. (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain…
n. (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car,…

sustain

n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

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).

swear

v. (intransitive, transitive) To take an oath.
v. (intransitive) To use offensive language.
n. A swear word.
adj. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
adj. (Britain dialectal) Top-heavy; too high.
adj. (Britain dialectal) Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
adj. (Britain dialectal) Niggardly.
adj. (Britain dialectal) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
v. (Britain dialectal) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.

table

n. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
n. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
n. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the…
n. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
v. To put on a table.
v. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table).
v. (US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
v. To tabulate; to put into a table.
v. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
v. To supply with food; to feed.
v. (carpentry) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the…
v. To enter upon the docket.
v. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the…

take

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

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.

touch

v. Primarily physical senses.
v. Primarily non-physical senses.
v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
n. A little bit; a small amount.
n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
n. The children's game of tag.
n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

train

n. Elongated portion.
n. Connected sequence of people or things.
v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
v. To proceed in sequence.
v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

trance

n. A dazed or unconscious condition.
n. (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience;…
n. (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
n. (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
n. (uncountable, music) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
n. (obsolete) A tedious journey.
v. To entrance.
v. (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
v. (obsolete) To pass; to travel.

understanding

n. (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is…
n. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
n. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
n. (countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.
n. (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
n. (uncountable) Sympathy.
n. All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
adj. Showing compassion.
v. present participle of understand.

verify

v. (transitive) To substantiate or prove the truth of something.
v. (transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.
v. (transitive, law) To affirm something formally, under oath.

view

n. (physical) Visual perception.
n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
n. A wake.
v. (transitive) To look at.
v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

wait

v. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now…
v. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
v. (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
v. (obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
v. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
v. (obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).
v. (intransitive) To remain celibate while one's lover is unavailable.
n. A delay.
n. An ambush.
n. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
n. (in the plural, obsolete, Britain) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
n. (in the plural, archaic, Britain) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially…

withstand

v. To resist or endure (something) successfully.
v. To oppose (something) forcefully.

Synonyms of the word

hold

accommodate

adjudge

admit

affirm

agree

aim

appendage

apply

appreciation

apprehension

arrest

assert

aver

avow

be

bear

becharm

beguile

believe

bespeak

bewitch

bind

book

booze

break

captivate

capture

carry

catch

cell

charm

check

clasp

clench

clutch

clutches

command

conceive

concern

concord

concur

confine

confinement

consider

contain

continue

control

cover

curb

custody

declare

deem

defend

defer

defy

delay

detainment

detention

direct

disable

discernment

disenable

drink

enamor

enamour

enchant

enclosure

entertain

entrance

evaluate

exist

experience

fascinate

fastness

feel

fuddle

give

grasp