Synonym of the word LEAD

lead

n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
v. To produce (with to).
v. Misspelling of led.
n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
n. (countable, mining) A lode.
n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
n. Charging lead.
n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
adj. (music) main, principal.
v. Misspelling of led.

actor

n. A person who performs in a theatrical play or film.
n. One who acts; a doer.
n. One who takes part in a situation.
n. (law) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
n. (law) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
n. (policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.
n. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

advance

v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
adj. Preceding.
adj. Forward.

advantage

n. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to…
n. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other…
n. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit.
n. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
n. (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team…
n. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
v. (transitive) To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
v. (reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.

angle

n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes…
n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional…
n. A corner where two walls intersect.
n. A change in direction.
n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
n. (media) The focus of a news story.
n. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach…
n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the…
v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
v. (snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle")…
v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

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…

boost

n. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
n. (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers.
v. (transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
v. (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming…
v. (slang, transitive) To steal.
v. (Canada, transitive) To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle…
v. (transitive, medicine) To give a booster shot to.

cause

n. (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action;…
n. (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
n. (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
n. (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
n. (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his…
v. To set off an event or action.
v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

chair

n. An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for…
n. Chairperson.
n. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
n. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers,…
n. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly…
n. (slang, with the) The electric chair.
n. A distinguished professorship at a university.
n. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse;…
v. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
v. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
v. (transitive, Wales, Britain) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

conduce

v. (intransitive) To contribute or lead to a specific result.

conduct

n. The act or method of controlling or directing.
n. Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
n. The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
n. (of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
n. (obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
n. That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
v. (archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.
v. (transitive) To lead; to direct; to manage.
v. (transitive) (reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.
v. (transitive) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.).
v. (transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
v. (intransitive) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
v. (transitive) To carry out (something organized).

constraint

n. Something that constrains; a restriction.
n. (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
n. (databases) A method that maintains database integrity.

contribute

v. To give something, that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

counsel

n. The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
n. Exercise of judgment; prudence.
n. Advice; guidance.
n. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
n. (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
n. A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
v. To give advice, especially professional advice.
v. To recommend.

counseling

n. Assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulties.
v. present participle of counsel.

counselling

n. (British spelling) Alternative form of counseling.
v. (British spelling) present participle of counsel.

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…

direction

n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
n. An general trend for future action.
n. Guidance, instruction.
n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
n. (archaic) An address.

discuss

v. (obsolete, transitive) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
v. (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
v. (obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, in eating or drinking.
v. (transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal…

do

v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
v. To cook.
v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
v. (transitive) To take drugs.
v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
n. (informal) A hairdo.
n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

encourage

v. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
v. To spur on, strongly recommend.
v. To foster, give help or patronage.

evidence

n. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
n. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
n. One who bears witness.
v. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

execute

v. (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
v. (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
v. (transitive) To perform.
v. (transitive) To cause to become legally valid.
v. (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run.

extend

v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

further

v. (transitive) To encourage growth.
v. To support progress or growth of something.
adj. comparative form of far: more far; of or pertaining to being distant, or of greater distance in degree…
adj. More, additional.
adv. comparative form of far: more far.
adv. (conjunctive) Also; in addition to.
adv. (location) At greater distance in space or time; farther.
adv. (conjunctive) Moreover; beyond what is already stated.

get

v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To receive.
v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
v. (copulative) To become.
v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
v. (transitive) To cause to do.
v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
v. (transitive) To getter.
v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
v. (euphemistic) To kill.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
n. Offspring.
n. Lineage.
n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
n. Something gained.
n. (Britain, regional) A git.
n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

go

v. To move.
v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
v. (intransitive) To attend.
v. To proceed.
v. To follow or travel along (a path).
v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
v. To pass, to be used up.
v. (intransitive) To die.
v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
v. To break down or apart.
v. (intransitive) To be sold.
v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
v. To say (something), to make a sound.
v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
v. To apply or subject oneself to.
v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
v. (intransitive) To date.
v. To attack.
v. To be in general; to be usually.
v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
n. (uncommon) The act of going.
n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
n. An attempt, a try.
n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
n. An act; the working or operation.
n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
n. A period of activity.
n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

graphite

n. An allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes…
n. Short for graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for light weight…
n. A grey colour.

grounds

n. plural of ground.
n. (law) Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce.".
n. The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds.
n. The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).

guidance

n. The act or process of guiding.
n. Advice or counselling on some topic.
n. Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

guide

n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer…
n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
n. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for…
v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
v. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
v. to supervise the education or training of someone.
v. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

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.

head

n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
n. A significant or important part.
n. Headway; progress.
n. Topic; subject.
n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
n. (slang) The glans penis.
n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
adj. Placed at the top or the front.
adj. Coming from in front.
v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
v. (intransitive) To form a head.
v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
v. To set on the head.

hint

n. A clue.
n. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
n. A small, barely detectable amount of.
n. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should…
n. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
v. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
v. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
v. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

histrion

n. (obsolete) A stage actor.

induce

v. (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
v. (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
v. (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
v. (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon.

jumper

n. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
n. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
n. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
n. A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
n. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged…
n. (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that…
n. (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
n. The larva of the cheese fly.
n. (historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized…
n. (horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
n. A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
v. To connect with an electrical jumper.
n. (chiefly Britain, Australia) A woolen sweater or pullover.
n. A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
n. A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over…
n. (usually as jumpers) Rompers.

lead

n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
v. To produce (with to).
v. Misspelling of led.
n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
n. (countable, mining) A lode.
n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
n. Charging lead.
n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
adj. (music) main, principal.
v. Misspelling of led.

lead-in

n. An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something.
n. A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents.
n. (journalism) A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.

leadership

n. the capacity of someone to lead others.
n. a group of leaders.
n. (dated) The office or status of a leader.

leading

v. present participle of lead.
adj. Providing guidance or direction.
adj. Ranking first.
adj. Occurring in advance; preceding.
n. An act by which one is led or guided.
n. (typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.

leash

n. A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
n. A brace and a half; a tierce.
n. A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the…
n. A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
n. (surfing) A leg rope.
v. To fasten or secure with a leash.
v. (figuratively) to curb, restrain.

leave

v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
v. (heading) To transfer something.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
n. (dated or law) Permission.
n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

lede

n. (Now chiefly Britain dialectal, singular) A man; person.
n. (chiefly Britain dialectal, Scotland, collective plural) Men; people, folk.
n. (Britain dialectal, Scotland, singular) A people or nation.
n. (Now chiefly Britain dialectal, plural) Tenements; holdings; possessions.
n. (chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.

locomote

v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

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.

metal

n. (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
n. (heraldry) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or.
n. Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
n. (music) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal,…
n. (archaic) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper; mettle.
n. The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
n. (Britain, obsolete, in the plural) The rails of a railway.
n. (informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
adj. (music) Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
adj. Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding,…
v. To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.

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.

move

v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
n. The act of moving; a movement.
n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
n. The event of changing one's residence.
n. A change in strategy.
n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

pass

v. (heading) Physical movement.
v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
v. (heading) To move through time.
v. (heading) To be accepted.
v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
v. (heading) To do or be better.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
n. An attempt.
n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
n. A sexual advance.
n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

perform

v. To do something; to execute.
v. To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.

place

n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
n. A location or position in space.
n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
n. A frame of mind.
n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

play

v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
n. The conduct, or course of a game.
n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
n. (countable) A major move by a business.
n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

player

n. One that plays.
n. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
n. A significant participant.
n. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.

plumbago

n. (mineralogy) graphite.
n. (botany) leadwort.

position

n. A place or location.
n. A post of employment; a job.
n. A status or rank.
n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
n. A posture.
n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
v. To put into place.

precede

v. (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
v. (intransitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
v. (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
n. Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay).

principal

adj. Primary; most important.
adj. (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
n. (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are…
n. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
n. (Britain, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
n. (law) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf.
n. (law) The primary participant in a crime.
n. A company represented by a salesperson.
n. (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
n. (music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
n. (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss…
n. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
n. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse…
n. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
n. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
n. (computing) A security principal.

produce

v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
n. Items produced.
n. Amount produced.
n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
n. Offspring.
n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

promote

v. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
v. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell…
v. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
v. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to the above league.
v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

restraint

n. (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures.
n. (uncountable) control or caution; reserve.

result

v. To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances,…
v. To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; followed by in.
v. (law) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
v. (obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
n. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is…
n. The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
n. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
n. (obsolete) A flying back; resilience.
n. (sports) The final score in a game.
n. (by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
interj. (Britain) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.

run

v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
v. (fluids) To flow.
v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
v. (social) To carry out an activity.
v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
v. To have growth or development.
v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
n. A pleasure trip.
n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
n. Migration (of fish).
n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
n. A (regular) trip or route.
n. The route taken while running or skiing.
n. The distance sailed by a ship.
n. A voyage.
n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
n. A trial.
n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
n. Any sudden large demand for something.
n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
n. (cricket) A point scored.
n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
n. Unrestricted use of.
n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
n. A pair or set of millstones.
n. (video games) A playthrough.
n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
adj. Cast in a mould.
adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

score

n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of…
n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
n. Twenty, 20 (number).
n. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
n. A weight of twenty pounds.
n. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each…
n. (music) The music of a movie or play.
n. Subject.
n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the…
n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
n. (US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
n. (US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
n. (US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
n. (US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
n. (US, slang) A sexual conquest.
v. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
v. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
v. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
interj. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success.

section

n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
n. A part of a document.
n. An act or instance of cutting.
n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
n. (category theory) A right inverse.
n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

slip

n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
n. A long, thin piece of something.
n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
v. (intransitive) To err.
v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
n. An act or instance of slipping.
n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
n. A slipdress.
n. A mistake or error.
n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
n. An outside covering or case.
n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
n. A particular quantity of yarn.
n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
n. A fish, the sole.

spend

v. To pay out (money).
v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
v. (dated) To squander.
v. To exhaust, to wear out.
v. To consume, to use up (time).
v. (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
v. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
v. To be diffused; to spread.
v. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
n. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure.
n. (pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
n. Discharged semen.
n. Vaginal discharge.

star

n. Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location…
n. (astronomy) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having…
n. (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or…
n. (acting) An actor in a leading role.
n. An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
n. (printing) An asterisk (*).
n. A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
n. A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in…
n. (astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
n. A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
n. A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in…
v. (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
v. (transitive) To feature a performer or a headliner, especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
v. (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
v. (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.

steer

n. The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
v. (transitive) To castrate (a male calf).
n. (informal) A suggestion about a course of action.
v. (intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a…
v. (transitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder,…
v. (intransitive) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
v. (transitive) To direct a group of animals.
v. (transitive) To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
v. (transitive) To direct a conversation.
v. To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
n. (obsolete) A helmsman; a pilot.

stimulate

v. To encourage into action.
v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

strip

n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
n. A comic strip.
n. A landing strip.
n. A strip steak.
n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
n. Striptease.
n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

subdivision

n. (countable, uncountable) a division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
n. (countable) such a piece that has been divided.
n. (countable) a parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
n. (countable) a group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
v. to separate something into smaller pieces.

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.

tether

n. a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
n. (by extension) the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.
n. (dialect) The cardinal number three in an old counting system used in Teesdale and Swaledale. (Variant…
v. to restrict something with a tether.
v. (Internet) to connect a personal computer and a smartphone in order to get wireless Internet access for…

thespian

adj. Of, or relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical.
n. An actor or player.

timing

n. (countable, obsolete) An occurrence or event.
n. (countable, uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine,…
n. (countable, uncountable) The time when something happens.
n. (uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
n. (countable) An instance of recording the time of something.
v. present participle of time.

tip

n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
n. A piece of advice.
v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

top

n. The highest part or component of an object.
n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
n. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
n. (physics) A top quark.
n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the…
n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest.
n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been…
n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
n. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group…
v. To cover on the top or with a top.
v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree).
v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
v. (Britain, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
v. (slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
v. (archaic) To predominate.
v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
v. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior…
v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this…
adj. Situated on the top of something.
adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality.
adv. Rated first.

track

n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
n. A road or other similar beaten path.
n. Physical course; way.
n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
n. A tract or area, such as of land.
n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
n. (cricket) The pitch.
n. Sound stored on a record.
n. The physical track on a record.
n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
n. A session talk on a conference.
v. To continue observing over time.
v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

trail

v. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
v. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
v. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
v. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report…
v. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
v. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the…
v. To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
v. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
n. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints…
n. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders,…
n. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
n. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.

travel

v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
v. (transitive) To force to journey.
v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
n. The act of traveling.
n. pl A series of journeys.
n. pl An account of one's travels.
n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

turn

v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
v. (archaic) To translate.
n. A change of direction or orientation.
n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
n. A single loop of a coil.
n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
n. A deed done to another.
n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
n. Character; personality; nature.
n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

vantage

n. An advantage.
n. A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
n. A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
n. (dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce).
v. (obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.

wind

n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
n. A bird, the dotterel.
n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

wire

n. (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel…
n. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
n. A metal conductor that carries electricity.
n. A fence made of usually barbed wire.
n. (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
n. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
n. (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
n. (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining…
n. (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
n. (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep…
n. (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence,…
n. (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket who targets women.
n. (Scotland) A knitting needle.
v. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
v. To string on a wire.
v. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
v. To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
v. (informal) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly…
v. To make someone tense or psyched up.
v. (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
v. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
v. (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

Synonyms of the word

lead

actor

advance

advantage

angle

be

boost

cause

chair

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conduct

constraint

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counseling

counselling

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direction

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execute

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further

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go

graphite

grounds

guidance

guide

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hint

histrion

induce

jumper

lead

lead-in

leadership

leading

leash

leave

lede

locomote

make

metal

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perform

place

play

player

plumbago

position

precede

principal

produce

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result

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score

section

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spend

star

steer

stimulate

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subdivision

take

tether

thespian

timing

tip

top

track