Synonyms of the word

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

abidance

• n. The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling.
• n. Adherence; compliance; conformity.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

air

• n. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly.
• n. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical)…
• n. A breeze; a gentle wind.
• n. A feeling or sense.
• n. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
• n. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
• n. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
• n. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
• n. An air conditioner or the processed air it produces. Can be a mass noun or a count noun depending on context;…
• n. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
• n. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
• v. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
• v. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
• v. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
• v. To broadcast, as with a television show.

ancestry

• n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
• n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

argumentation

• n. Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
• n. An exchange of arguments.

artefact

• n. (British spelling, Australian spelling) alternative form of artifact.

artifact

• n. An object made or shaped by human hand.
• n. (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest,…
• n. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
• n. A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under…
• n. (biology) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or…
• n. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
• n. (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result…

billet

• n. A short informal letter.
• n. A written order to quarter soldiers.
• n. A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
• n. An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
• n. (figuratively) Berth; position.
• v. (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
• v. (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
• v. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
• n. (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
• n. A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
• n. (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
• n. (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
• n. A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.

blood

• n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen…
• n. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to…
• n. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
• n. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
• n. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
• n. (obsolete) The juice of anything, especially if red.
• n. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
• n. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
• v. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
• v. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
• v. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

bloodline

• n. The abstract link between a person and their ancestors.
• n. The pedigree of an animal.
• n. By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

cable

• n. (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
• n. (communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or…
• n. A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
• n. (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
• n. (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
• n. (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
• n. (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to…
• v. (transitive) To provide with cable(s).
• v. (transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s).
• v. (transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable.
• v. (transitive) To send a telegram by cable.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
• v. (architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.

carrier

• n. A person or object that carries someone or something else.
• n. A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer.
• n. An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos").
• n. A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
• n. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
• n. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
• n. A certified airline.
• n. (engineering) That which drives or carries.
• n. (chemistry) A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
• n. (genetics, pathology) A person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait, mutation or infectious…

channel

• n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
• n. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
• n. The navigable part of a river.
• n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
• n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
• n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase…
• n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
• n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
• n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
• n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
• n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading…
• n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
• n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
• n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated…
• n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
• n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
• v. To direct the flow of something.
• v. To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal…
• n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach…

communicating

• v. present participle of communicate.

communication

• n. The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
• n. (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
• n. A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
• n. The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
• n. An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
• n. A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
• n. (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
• n. (obsolete) Association; company.
• n. Participation in Holy Communion.
• n. (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says…

compliance

• n. An act of complying.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being compliant.
• n. (uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
• n. (mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility.
• n. (medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan.
• n. (uncountable, business) the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied…

conductor

• n. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
• n. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation…
• n. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.
• n. Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed.
• n. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
• n. (architecture) A leader.

conformation

• n. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
• n. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form;…
• n. (chemistry) The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a…

conformity

• n. State of things being similar or identical.
• n. A point of resemblance; a similarity.
• n. State of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
• n. The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.

connecter

• n. A connector.

connection

• n. (uncountable) The act of connecting.
• n. The point at which two or more things are connected.
• n. A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
• n. An established communications or transportation link.
• n. (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
• n. A kinship relationship between people.
• n. (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is…

connective

• adj. Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
• n. That which connects.
• n. (logic) A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
• n. (grammar) A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
• n. (botany) The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
• n. (anatomy, zoology) A connective tissue.

connector

• n. One who connects.
• n. A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together…
• n. A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange…
• n. (computing) A line connecting two shapes in presentation software.
• n. (computing) A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database…

connexion

• n. (chiefly Britain) Dated spelling of connection.
• n. (Britain, religion, historical) A circuit of prayer groups who employed travelling ministers alongside…

contrast

• n. (countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more…
• n. (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
• n. (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.
• v. (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
• v. (intransitive) To form a contrast.

course

• n. A sequence of events.
• n. A path that something or someone moves along.
• n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
• n. A row or file of objects.
• n. (music) A string on a lute.
• n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
• v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• v. To run through or over.
• v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
• adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

cover

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

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

credit

• v. (transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
• v. (transitive, accounting) To add to an account (confer debit.).
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
• v. (transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
• n. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
• n. (uncountable) Recognition and respect.
• n. (countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
• n. (television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or…
• n. (uncountable, law, business) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's…
• n. The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
• n. (uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing…
• n. (accounting) An addition to certain accounts.
• n. (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
• n. A source of value, distinction or honour.
• n. An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
• n. (uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
• n. (countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.

crinkle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
• v. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
• n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

delineate

• v. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
• v. To depict, represent with pictures.
• v. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
• v. To outline or mark out.

demarcation

• n. The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
• n. A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.
• n. Any strictly defined separation.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

descent

• n. An instance of descending.
• n. A way down.
• n. A sloping passage or incline.
• n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
• n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
• n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

describe

• v. (transitive) To represent in words.
• v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
• v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
• v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

differentiation

• n. The act of differentiating.
• n. The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact…
• n. The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when…
• n. (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
• n. (calculus) The process of determining the derived function of a function.

distinction

• n. That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided;…
• n. The act of distinguishing, discriminating; discrimination.
• n. Specifically, a feature that causes someone or something to stand out as being better; a mark of honour,…

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

fill

• v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
• v. To enter (something), making it full.
• v. (intransitive) To become full.
• v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
• v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
• n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
• n. An amount that fills a container.
• n. The filling of a container or area.
• n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
• n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
• n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
• n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
• n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

formation

• n. Something possessing structure or form.
• n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
• n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
• n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
• n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
• n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
• n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
• n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

furrow

• n. A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
• n. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
• n. A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
• v. (transitive) To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
• v. (transitive) To wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.

genealogy

• n. (countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
• n. (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
• n. (uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

impression

• n. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
• n. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
• n. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
• n. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
• n. An outward appearance.
• n. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown…
• n. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
• n. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

imprint

• n. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
• n. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
• n. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
• v. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
• v. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
• v. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

lie

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
• v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
• v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
• v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
• v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
• v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
• n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
• n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
• v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
• n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
• n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
• n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

lineage

• n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line…
• n. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.

location

• n. A particular point or place in physical space.
• n. An act of locating.
• n. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
• n. (law) A leasing on rent.
• n. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
• n. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according…

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

melody

• n. tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.

merchandise

• n. (uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
• n. (countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
• n. (uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
• v. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
• v. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

music

• n. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.
• n. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.
• n. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes…
• n. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
• v. (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

nock

• n. Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
• n. The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
• n. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
• v. (transitive) To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow.
• v. (transitive) To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).
• n. Misspelling of knock.

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

occupation

• n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
• n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
• n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

parentage

• n. The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
• n. The social quality of one's class in society.
• n. origin; derivation.

pedigree

• n. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
• n. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
• n. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
• n. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
• n. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
• adj. Having a pedigree.
• adj. Purebred.

pipage

• n. Plumbing, a system of pipes.
• n. A charge made for piping a fluid from one place to another.

pipe

• n. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
• n. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
• n. Meanings relating to a container.
• n. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
• n. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
• n. Meanings relating to computing.
• v. (intransitive) To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
• v. (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
• v. (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
• v. (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
• v. (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
• v. (transitive) To decorate with piping.
• v. (transitive) To dab away moisture from.
• v. (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another…
• v. (transitive, nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To see.

pipeline

• n. A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc.
• n. A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the…
• n. A system through which something is conducted.
• n. (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
• v. (transitive) To convey something by a system of pipes.
• v. (transitive) To lay a system of pipes through something.
• v. (computing, transitive) To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages,…

piping

• v. present participle of pipe.
• n. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
• n. The sound of musical pipes.
• n. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
• n. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
• n. An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
• n. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
• n. Piped icing on a cake.
• n. (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
• n. (botany) propagation by cuttings.
• adj. High-pitched.

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.

print

• adj. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
• v. (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often…
• v. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
• v. (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
• v. (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
• v. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
• v. (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
• n. (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
• n. (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
• n. (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
• n. A visible impression on a surface.
• n. A fingerprint.
• n. A footprint.
• n. (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
• n. (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
• n. (motion pictures) A copy of a film that can be projected.
• n. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.

product

• n. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
• n. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
• n. Anything that is produced; a result.
• n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

reasoning

• n. Action of the verb to reason.
• n. The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises; abstract thought; ratiocination.
• n. A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.
• v. present participle of reason.

reenforce

• v. Alternative spelling of re-enforce.

reinforce

• v. (transitive) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.
• v. (transitive) To emphasize or review.
• v. (transitive) To encourage (a behavior or idea) through repeated stimulus.

road

• n. (obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.
• n. (obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
• n. (nautical, often in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride…
• n. A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses…
• n. (figuratively) A path chosen in life or career.
• n. An underground tunnel in a mine.
• n. (US, rail transport) A railway or (Britain, rail transport) a single railway track.
• n. (obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
• n. A way or route.
• adj. (US, Canada, sports, chiefly attributive) At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.

route

• n. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
• n. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger…
• n. A road or path; often specifically a highway.
• n. (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
• n. (historical) The major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the…
• v. To direct or divert along a particular course.
• v. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
• v. (computing) To send (information) through a router.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of root.

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.

seam

• n. (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more…
• n. A suture.
• n. A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
• n. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces…
• n. An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
• n. An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
• n. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
• n. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
• n. (figuratively) A line of junction; a joint.
• v. To put together with a seam.
• v. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch,…
• v. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
• v. To crack open along a seam.
• v. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
• v. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard.

series

• n. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
• n. (US, Canada) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular…
• n. (Britain) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the terms of a sequence.
• n. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than…
• n. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
• n. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that…
• n. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
• n. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
• adj. (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.

shape

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

stemma

• n. A family tree or recorded genealogy.
• n. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
• n. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.

stock

• n. A store or supply.
• n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an…
• n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
• n. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
• n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
• n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
• n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
• n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
• n. A bar, stick or rod.
• n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle.
• n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical…
• n. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew…
• n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as…
• n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
• n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
• n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
• n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
• n. (Britain, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the…
• n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
• n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
• n. The beater of a fulling mill.
• v. To have on hand for sale.
• v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
• v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
• v. To put in the stocks as punishment.
• v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
• v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
• adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
• adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having…
• adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
• n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

text

• n. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
• n. A book, tome or other set of writings.
• n. (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
• n. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).
• n. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
• n. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme.
• n. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing.
• v. (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or…
• v. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
• v. To write in large characters, as in text hand.

trace

• n. An act of tracing.
• n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
• n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
• n. A very small amount.
• n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
• n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
• n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
• n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
• n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
• n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
• n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
• v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
• v. To follow the history of.
• v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
• v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
• v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…

tune

• n. A melody.
• n. A song, or short musical composition.
• n. (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
• n. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
• n. (Britain, slang) A very good song.
• n. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
• n. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
• v. To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
• v. To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions…
• v. To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
• v. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
• v. To sing with melody or harmony.
• v. (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.

ware

• adj. (poetic) aware.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
• n. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
• n. (in the plural) See wares.
• n. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
• n. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
• n. (Ireland) Crockery.
• v. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
• v. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
• adj. (obsolete) wary; cautious.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed.
• v. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

wrinkle

• n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
• n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
• n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
• n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
• v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
• v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
• v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
• n. (US, dialect) A winkle.