Synonyms of the word

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.

bind

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

collar

• n. Anything that encircles the neck.
• n. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
• n. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
• n. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
• n. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
• n. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
• n. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope…
• n. (slang) An arrest.
• v. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
• v. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
• v. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
• v. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
• v. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
• v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

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.

digit

• n. (mathematics) The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined…
• n. (mathematics) Similarly fundamental numerals in other systems.
• n. (units of measure, astronomy) ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of…
• n. (historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger,…
• n. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
• n. (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
• n. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
• n. (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.
• v. (transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.

figure

• n. A drawing or diagram conveying information.
• n. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially,…
• n. A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
• n. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
• n. (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
• n. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
• n. A numeral.
• n. A number.
• n. A shape.
• n. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
• n. A dance figure, a complex dance move^W.
• n. A figure of speech.
• n. (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
• n. (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
• n. (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single…
• n. (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
• v. To solve a mathematical problem.
• v. To come to understand.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable.
• v. (transitive) To enter, be a part of.
• v. (obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal;…
• v. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
• v. (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
• v. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
• v. (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
• v. (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying…
• v. (music) To embellish.

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.

restraint

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

rope

• n. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted…
• n. (countable) An individual length of such material.
• n. A cohesive strand of something.
• n. (dated) A continuous stream.
• n. (baseball) A hard line drive.
• n. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
• n. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf…
• n. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million…
• n. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
• n. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
• n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
• n. (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
• n. (in the plural) The small intestines.
• v. (transitive) To tie (something) with something.
• v. (transitive) To throw a rope around (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

tercet

• n. a three-line stanza in a poem.

ternary

• adj. Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex.
• adj. Arranged in groups of three.
• adj. (mathematics) To the base three.
• adj. (mathematics) Having three variables.
• adj. (chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals,…
• n. A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.

ternion

• n. The number three; three things together; a ternary or triplet.

terzetto

• n. (music) A composition in three voice parts.
• n. (music) A vocal (or, rarely, instrumental) trio.

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…

three

• num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots…
• num. (of a set or group) Having three elements.
• n. The digit/figure 3.
• n. Anything measuring three units, as length.
• n. A person who is three years old.
• n. The playing card featuring three pips.
• n. (basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.

threesome

• n. A group of three people.
• n. An instance of sexual activity involving three people.

tie

• n. A knot; a fastening.
• n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
• n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
• n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
• n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
• n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
• n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
• n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
• n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
• n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
• n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
• n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
• n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
• n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
• v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
• v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
• v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
• v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

tierce

• n. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of…
• n. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice,…
• n. (music) The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
• n. (card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called…
• n. (fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword…
• n. (heraldry) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
• n. (religion, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.
• n. (obsolete) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal…

trey

• n. (card games, occasionally dice games) A playing card or die with the rank of three.
• n. (card games, dice games, dominoes) A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes.
• n. (US, Canada, basketball, informal) A three-pointer.
• n. (informal) The third bearer of the same personal name in a family, often denoted by suffixed Roman numeral…

triad

• n. A grouping of three.
• n. (music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher…
• n. (electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and…
• n. A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

trine

• adj. Triple, threefold.
• adj. (astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
• n. A group of three things.
• n. An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
• v. (transitive, astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
• v. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To hang; To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
• v. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To go.

trinity

• n. A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.
• n. The state of being three; threeness.

trio

• n. A group of three people or things.
• n. A group of three musicians.
• n. (music) A piece of music written for three musicians.
• n. (music) A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.
• n. Any cocktail made with a spirit, a liqueur, and a creamy ingredient.

triplet

• n. A group of three.
• n. One of a group of three.
• n. One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
• n. (music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
• n. (physics) A triquark.

troika

• n. A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
• n. A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Russian contexts.