Synonyms of the word index


INDEXDETERMINE - EXPONENT - FACT - FINGER - FOREFINGER - FURNISH - INDICANT - INDICATOR - INFLUENCE - LIST - LISTING - MOLD - POWER - PROVIDE - REGULATE - RENDER - SCALE - SHAPE - SUPPLY

index

  • n. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
  • n. The index finger; the forefinger.
  • n. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
  • n. (printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
  • n. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
  • n. A sign; an indication; a token.
  • n. (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g.,…
  • n. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
  • n. (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
  • n. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
  • n. (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data…
  • n. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
  • n. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
  • v. To inventory, to take stock.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.

determine

  • v. To set the boundaries or limits of.
  • v. To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
  • v. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
  • v. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
  • v. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence;…
  • v. To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
  • v. (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
  • v. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.

exponent

  • n. One who expounds, represents or advocates.
  • n. (linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.

fact

  • n. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.
  • n. (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
  • n. (obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.
  • n. An honest observation.
  • n. Something actual as opposed to invented.
  • n. Something which is real.
  • n. Something which has become real.
  • n. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
  • n. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
  • n. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
  • interj. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

finger

  • n. (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (usually) exclusive of the thumb.
  • n. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly.
  • n. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly.
  • n. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly.
  • n. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping,…
  • n. (units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly.
  • n. (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
  • n. (informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
  • n. (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
  • n. (Britain slang) A person.
  • v. (transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities,…
  • v. (transitive) To poke or probe with a finger or fingers.
  • v. (transitive) To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina…
  • v. (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
  • v. (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
  • v. (obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.

forefinger

  • n. (human anatomy) The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.

furnish

  • n. Material used to create an engineered product.
  • v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

indicant

  • adj. Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.
  • n. That which indicates or points out.

indicator

  • n. A pointer or index that indicates something.
  • n. A meter or gauge.
  • n. The needle or dial on such a meter.
  • n. (chemistry) Any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance,…
  • n. (ecology) A plant or animal whose presence is indicative of some specific environment.
  • n. (economics) A measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, automotive) A trafficator (dated definition); each of the flashing lights on each…
  • n. A bird, the honeyguide.

influence

  • n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
  • n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
  • n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
  • n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
  • n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
  • n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
  • v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
  • v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

list

  • n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  • n. Material used for cloth selvage.
  • n. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
  • n. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the…
  • n. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially,…
  • n. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
  • n. (obsolete) A stripe.
  • n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
  • n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
  • n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
  • n. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
  • n. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
  • v. To create or recite a list.
  • v. To place in listings.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
  • v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
  • v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
  • v. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
  • v. To plough and plant with a lister.
  • v. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
  • n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
  • v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
  • n. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
  • n. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
  • v. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
  • v. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  • v. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
  • n. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

listing

  • adj. Asking, as a price of real estate.
  • v. present participle of list.
  • n. The action of the verb to list.
  • n. An entry in a list or directory.
  • n. (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
  • n. A physical manifestation of a single item in a list; as a single twenty page (bound) listing.

mold

  • n. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
  • n. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
  • n. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
  • n. The shape or pattern of a mold.
  • n. General shape or form.
  • n. Distinctive character or type.
  • n. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
  • n. (architecture) A group of moldings.
  • n. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
  • v. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold.
  • v. (transitive) To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
  • v. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence.
  • v. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
  • v. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
  • v. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
  • v. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
  • n. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
  • v. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
  • n. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
  • v. To cover with mold or soil.

power

  • n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control.
  • n. (physical, uncountable) Effectiveness.
  • n. (mathematics).
  • n. (biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels,…
  • v. (transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
  • v. (transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.
  • v. To enable or provide the impetus for.
  • adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.

provide

  • v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • v. To act to prepare for something.
  • v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • v. To make possible or attainable.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

regulate

  • v. To dictate policy.
  • v. To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
  • v. To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
  • v. To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
  • v. To put or maintain in order.

render

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become.
  • v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
  • v. (transitive) To pass down.
  • v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
  • v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
  • v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
  • v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
  • v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  • n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
  • n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
  • n. (obsolete) A surrender.
  • n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  • n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
  • n. One who rends.

scale

  • n. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
  • n. An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
  • n. Size; scope.
  • n. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
  • n. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified…
  • n. A means of assigning a magnitude.
  • n. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
  • n. A mathematical base for a numeral system.
  • n. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative…
  • v. (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process…
  • v. (transitive) To climb to the top of.
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting…
  • v. (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
  • n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of…
  • n. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their…
  • n. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
  • n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that…
  • n. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
  • n. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
  • n. Limescale.
  • n. A scale insect.
  • n. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the scales of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
  • v. (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
  • v. (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
  • v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
  • v. (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
  • n. A device to measure mass or weight.
  • n. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

shape

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

supply

  • v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
  • v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
  • v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
  • n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
  • n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
  • n. (in the plural) provisions.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
  • n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
  • adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

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