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Synonyms of the word 
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- 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.
accomplish- v. (transitive) To finish successfully.
- v. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
- v. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished;…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.
achieve- v. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
- v. (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
- v. (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed…
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
- v. (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
acquire- v. (transitive) To get.
- v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
- v. (medicine) To contract.
- v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
act- n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
- n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
- n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- n. The process of doing something.
- n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
- n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- n. (countable) Any organized activity.
- n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
- n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
- n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- v. (intransitive) To do something.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
- v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
- v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- v. (transitive) To play (a role).
- v. (transitive) To feign.
- v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
alter- v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
- v. (intransitive) To become different.
- v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
- v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
amount- n. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard…
- n. A quantity or volume.
- n. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
- v. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
- v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
appear- v. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
- v. (intransitive) To come before the public.
- v. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge,…
- v. (intransitive) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation…
- v. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
appoint- v. (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting…
- v. (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
- v. (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings…
- v. (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
- v. (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
approximate- adj. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
- adj. Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
- v. To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
- v. To come near to; to approach.
- v. To estimate.
assemble- v. (transitive) To put together.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather as a group.
- v. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code.
assure- v. (transitive) To make sure and secure.
- v. (transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
- v. (obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
- v. To reassure.
attain- v. (transitive) To accomplish; to achieve.
- v. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
- v. (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
- v. (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object,…
- v. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
- v. (obsolete) To overtake.
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…
become- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
- v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
- v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
- v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
- v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
behave- v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
- v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
- v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.
brand- n. (obsolete, rare) A conflagration; a flame.
- n. (archaic or poetic) A piece of burning wood or peat, also a glowing cinder.
- n. (Scotland, Northern England) A torch used for signaling.
- n. (archaic) A sword.
- n. A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle, or to classify the contents of a cask.
- n. A branding iron.
- n. A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product or service, or its provider.
- n. A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.
- n. Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner.
- n. The reputation among some population of an organization, of the products sold under a particular brand…
- n. Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.
- v. (transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to…
- v. (transitive) To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
- v. (transitive) To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
- v. (transitive) To stigmatize, label (someone).
- v. (transitive, marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.
build- v. (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
- v. (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- v. (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
- v. (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
- v. (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
- v. (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
- v. (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- v. (intransitive, computing, of software) To be constructed by compilation of source code, usually with minimal…
- n. (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
- n. (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release…
- n. (video games, slang, countable) Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by…
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.
change- v. (intransitive) To become something different.
- v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
- v. (transitive) To replace.
- v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
- v. (archaic) To exchange.
- v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
- n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
- n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
- n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
- n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
- n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
- n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
charge- n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
- n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- n. A load or burden; cargo.
- n. The amount of money levied for a service.
- n. An instruction.
- n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- n. An accusation.
- n. An electric charge.
- n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
- n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- n. A forceful forward movement.
- n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
- n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
- n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
- v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- v. To impute or ascribe.
- v. To call to account; to challenge.
- v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
- v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
- v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…
clear- adj. Transparent in colour.
- adj. Bright, not dark or obscured.
- adj. Free of obstacles.
- adj. Without clouds.
- adj. (meteorology) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- adj. Free of ambiguity or doubt.
- adj. Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- adj. (figuratively) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- adj. (of a soup) Without a thickening ingredient.
- adj. Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- adj. (Scientology) Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- adj. Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- adj. Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- adj. Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- adj. Unmixed; entirely pure.
- adj. Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- adj. Without diminution; in full; net.
- adv. All the way; entirely.
- adv. Not near something or touching it.
- adv. free (or separate) from others.
- adv. (obsolete) In a clear manner; plainly.
- v. (transitive) To remove obstructions or impediments from.
- v. (ergative) To become freed from obstructions.
- v. (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
- v. (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- v. (transitive) To pass without interference; to miss.
- v. (intransitive) To become clear.
- v. (intransitive) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that…
- v. (transitive, business) To earn a profit of; to net.
- v. (transitive) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- v. To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- v. To obtain a clearance.
- v. (sports) To defend by hitting (or kicking, throwing, heading etc.) the ball (or puck) from the defending…
- v. To fell all trees of a forest.
- v. (transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- v. (computing, transitive) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at…
- n. (carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest…
- n. (cryptology) State of being unenciphered. (In the clear: Not enciphered.).
come- v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
- v. (intransitive) To arrive.
- v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
- v. (intransitive) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
- v. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- v. (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
- v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- v. (intransitive) Happen.
- v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have a social background.
- v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
- n. (slang) Semen.
- n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
- prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
- interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
- interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
- n. (typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form…
commit- v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
- v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
- v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
- v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
- v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
- v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
- n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…
comprise- v. To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
- v. To include, contain or embrace.
- v. (sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose, to constitute. See usage note below.
- v. (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of ("open-ended", doesn't limit to the items listed; cf…
consider- v. (transitive) To think about seriously.
- v. (transitive) To think of doing.
- v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
- v. (transitive) To look at attentively.
- v. (transitive) To take up as an example.
- v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
- v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
constitute- v. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
- v. To make up; to compose; to form.
- v. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
- n. (obsolete) An established law.
construct- n. Something constructed from parts.
- n. A concept or model.
- n. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or…
- v. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- v. (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
- v. (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric…
cook- n. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
- n. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
- n. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- n. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- n. A fish, the European striped wrasse.
- v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
- v. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other…
- v. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
- v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- v. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost…
- v. To concoct or prepare.
- v. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- v. (intransitive, idiomatic, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way…
- v. (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
- v. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
crap- n. (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
- n. (slang, mildly vulgar) Something of poor quality.
- n. (slang, mildly vulgar) Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
- n. (slang, mildly vulgar) Faeces or feces.
- n. (slang, mildly vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
- n. (slang, mildly vulgar) Useless object or entity.
- n. (slang, vulgar, in the plural) diarrhea.
- v. (vulgar, slang) To defecate.
- adj. (chiefly Britain, colloquial, somewhat vulgar) Of poor quality.
- interj. (slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
- n. (gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3 or 12 in craps.
create- v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
- v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
- v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
- v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
- v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
- v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
- adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
defecate- v. (intransitive) To expel feces from one's bowels.
- v. (now rare) To purify, to clean of dregs etc.
- v. (now rare, transitive) To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.
- adj. (obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
develop- v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- v. (transitive) To create.
- v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
- v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
- v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…
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…
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.
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.
earn- v. (transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
- v. (transitive) To receive payment for work.
- v. (intransitive) To receive payment for work.
- v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
- v. (transitive) To be worthy of.
- v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To curdle, as milk.
- v. (obsolete) To long; to yearn.
- v. (obsolete) To grieve.
- n. Alternative form of erne.
egest- v. To excrete from the body.
eliminate- v. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- v. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- v. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- v. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
ensure- v. (transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
- v. (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
establish- v. (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
- v. (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
- v. (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
- v. (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
estimate- n. A rough calculation or guess.
- n. (construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job will probably…
- n. An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
- v. To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
- v. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
excrete- v. (of an organism) to discharge from the system.
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.
fix- n. A repair or corrective action.
- n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
- n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
- n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
- n. A determination of location.
- n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
- v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
- v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
- v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
- v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…
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…
gain- prep. (obsolete) Against.
- adj. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
- adj. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
- adj. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
- adj. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
- adv. (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
- adv. (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
- adv. (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
- n. The act of gaining; acquisition.
- n. What is gained.
- n. (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- v. (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- v. (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest,…
- v. (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
- v. (transitive) To increase.
- v. (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
- v. (transitive) To reach.
- v. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
- v. (intransitive) To put on weight.
- v. (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- n. (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports…
gather- v. To collect; normally separate things.
- v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
- v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
- v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- v. To gain; to win.
- n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
- n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
gauge- n. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
- n. An act of measuring.
- n. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things.
- n. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
- n. (rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.
- n. (mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector…
- n. (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- n. (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- n. (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- n. (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- n. That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of…
- n. (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be…
- n. (slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat…
- n. A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- v. (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- v. (transitive) To estimate.
- v. (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- v. (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- v. (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- v. (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
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.
give- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
- v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
- v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
- v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
- v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- v. To be going on, to be occurring.
- n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
grow- v. (ergative) To become bigger.
- v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
guarantee- n. Anything that assures a certain outcome.
- n. A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- n. More specifically, a written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly;…
- n. The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- n. (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- v. To give an assurance that something will be done right.
- v. To assume responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
- v. To make something certain.
guess- v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
- v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
- n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
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.
hit- v. (heading, physical) To strike.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
- v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
- v. (heading, games) To make a play.
- v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
- n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
- n. An attack on a location, person or people.
- n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
- n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
- n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
- n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- adj. Designating of a popular song.
- pron. (dialectal) It.
hold- adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
- v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- v. (transitive) To contain or store.
- v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
- v. To take place, to occur.
- v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
- n. A grasp or grip.
- n. A place where animals are held for safety.
- n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- n. Something reserved or kept.
- n. Power over someone or something.
- n. The ability to persist.
- n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
- n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
- n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
- n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).
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.
insure- v. (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract)…
- v. (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance.
- v. (chiefly US, transitive) Alternative spelling of ensure; to make sure or certain of; guarantee.
judge- n. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering…
- n. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- n. A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
- n. A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
- v. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
- v. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- v. (transitive) To form an opinion on.
- v. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- v. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- v. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
kind- n. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped…
- n. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
- n. (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
- n. Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
- n. Equivalent means used as response to an action.
- n. (Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
- adj. Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature…
- adj. Affectionate.
- adj. Favorable.
- adj. Mild, gentle, forgiving.
- adj. Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
- adj. (obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
look- v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
- v. To appear, to seem.
- v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
- v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
- v. To face or present a view.
- v. To expect or anticipate.
- v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
- v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
- v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
- v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
- interj. Pay attention.
- n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
- n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
- n. A facial expression.
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.
micturate- v. (intransitive, physiology, formal) To urinate.
modify- v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
- v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.
name- n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- n. Reputation.
- n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
- n. A person (or legal person).
- n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
- n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
- v. (transitive) To give a name to.
- v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
- v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
- v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
- v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
- n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
neaten- v. To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.
nominate- v. To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
- v. (obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
- adj. (zoology) nominotypical.
number- n. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
- n. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
- n. (countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers,…
- n. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence…
- n. Quantity.
- n. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
- n. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
- n. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
- n. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
- n. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
- n. (countable, informal) A person.
- n. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
- n. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
- n. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
- v. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
- v. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
- adj. comparative form of numb: more numb.
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).
pee- n. (euphemistic, often childish) urine.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, often childish) To urinate.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To drizzle.
- n. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.
- n. (Britain, colloquial) Pence; penny (a quantity of money).
- n. (nautical) The bill of an anchor.
- n. The sliding weight on a steelyard.
pee-pee- n. (colloquial, usually childish) Urine.
- n. (colloquial, usually childish) The penis; male genitalia.
- v. (hypocoristic, slang) To urinate.
perform- v. To do something; to execute.
- v. To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
perpetrate- v. (transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
persuade- v. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through…
- v. (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection,…
piddle- n. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) An act of urination.
- v. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) To urinate.
- v. To waste time; often used as a euphemism for piss and followed by away.
piss- n. (vulgar) Urine.
- n. (vulgar, slang) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
- v. (intransitive, vulgar) To urinate.
- v. (transitive, vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.
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.
prepare- v. (transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
- v. (transitive) To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
- v. (intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
- v. (transitive) To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
- n. (obsolete) preparation.
pretend- v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
- v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
- v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
- v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.
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.
puddle- n. A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
- n. (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- n. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- v. To form a puddle.
- v. To play or splash in a puddle.
- v. To process iron by means of puddling.
- v. To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- v. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research…
- v. To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- v. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
pull- interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
- n. An act of pulling (applying force).
- n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
- n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
- n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
- n. A journey made by rowing.
- n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
- n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
- n. (slang) The act of drinking.
- n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
- n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
- v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- v. To attract or net; to pull in.
- v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
- v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
- v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
- v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- v. (intransitive) To row.
- v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
- v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
- v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
- v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
- v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
reach- v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
- v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
- v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
- v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
- v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
- v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
- v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
- v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
- v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
- v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
- n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
- n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
- n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
- n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- n. An effort to vomit; a retching.
ready- adj. Prepared for immediate action or use.
- adj. Inclined; apt to happen.
- adj. Liable at any moment.
- adj. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert.
- adj. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
- v. To make prepared for action.
- n. (slang) ready money; cash.
realise- v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of realize.
realize- v. (formal, transitive) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring…
- v. (transitive) To become aware of a fact or situation.
- v. (transitive) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to…
- v. (transitive, business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts;…
- v. (transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing…
- v. (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
reckon- v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
- v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
- v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…
regard- n. (countable) A steady look, a gaze.
- n. One's concern for another; esteem.
- n. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
- n. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value,…
- v. To look at; to observe.
- v. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
- v. (transitive) To face toward.
- v. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern.
reordering- v. present participle of reorder.
- n. A rearrangement.
represent- v. (transitive) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit…
- v. (transitive) To portray visually; to delineate.
- v. (transitive) To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of.
- v. (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise…
- v. (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.).
- v. (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement…
- v. (transitive) To give an account of; to describe.
- v. (transitive) To serve as a sign or symbol of.
- v. (transitive) To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended;…
- v. (transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something…
- v. (transitive) To constitute, to make up, to be a example of.
- v. (sports, transitive) To participate as a team member.
- v. (intransitive) (African American Vernacular) To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people;…
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.
secure- adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
- adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
- adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
- adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
- v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
- v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
seduce- v. To beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
- v. To entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship.
- v. (by extension, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with.
- v. To win over or attract someone.
see- v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- v. To form a mental picture of.
- v. (social) To meet, to visit.
- v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
- v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
- n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
- n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
seem- v. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
- v. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.
shit- n. (countable, uncountable, colloquial, vulgar) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
- n. (countable, colloquial, vulgar, in the plural, definite) (the shits) diarrhea.
- n. (countable, colloquial, vulgar) An instance of defecation.
- n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
- n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Stuff, things.
- n. (uncountable, colloquial, vulgar, definite) (the shit) The best of its kind.
- n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
- n. (countable, vulgar, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
- n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) (in negations) Anything.
- n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
- n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A strong rebuke.
- n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) any recreational drug, usually cannabis.
- adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality; worthless.
- adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Nasty; despicable.
- adv. (vulgar, colloquial, sometimes by extension) Resembling the color of feces.
- v. (intransitive, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate.
- v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To excrete (something) through the anus.
- v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
- v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial, Australia) To annoy.
- interj. (vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered…
- interj. (vulgar) To show displeasure or surprise.
shuffle- n. The act of shuffling cards.
- n. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- n. (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with…
- n. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- v. To put in a random order.
- v. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- v. To change; modify the order of something.
- v. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- v. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- v. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- v. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
shuffling- v. present participle of shuffle.
- n. The act or motion of one who shuffles.
- n. The noise created by something moving about.
- n. (dated) trickery.
- adj. Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
- adj. evasive.
sort- n. A general type.
- n. Manner; form of being or acting.
- n. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
- n. (dated) Group, company.
- n. (informal) A person.
- n. An act of sorting.
- n. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- n. (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size…
- n. (mathematics) A type.
- n. (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
- n. (obsolete) A pair; a set; a suit.
- v. (transitive) To separate according to certain criteria.
- v. (transitive) To arrange into some order, especially numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- v. (Britain) To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out.
- v. (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- v. (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to…
- v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
stimulate- v. To encourage into action.
- v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.
stool- n. A seat for one person without a back or armrest, particularly.
- n. (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
- n. (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling: a shit.
- n. (archaic) A decoy.
- n. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
- n. (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- v. (chiefly medicine) To produce stool, to defecate.
- v. (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to…
- n. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
- v. (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
straighten- v. (transitive) To cause to become straight.
- v. (intransitive) To become straight.
- v. (transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
- v. (transitive) To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
- v. (transitive, slang) To bribe or corrupt.
- v. (intransitive) To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
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.
tally- adj. (Britain) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
- interj. (radio, aviation) Target sighted.
- n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;.
- n. Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
- n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially…
- n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
- n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
- n. A tally shop.
- n. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
- v. (transitive) To count something.
- v. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
- v. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
- v. (intransitive) To keep score.
- v. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
- v. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
- adv. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
throw- v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
- v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
- v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
- v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
- v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
- v. (transitive) To imprison.
- v. To organize an event, especially a party.
- v. To roll (a die or dice).
- v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
- v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
- v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
- v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
- v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
- v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
- n. The flight of a thrown object.
- n. The act of throwing something.
- n. One's ability to throw.
- n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
- n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
- n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
- v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
- n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
- n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
- n. Misspelling of throe.
tidy- adj. (obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
- adj. (obsolete) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
- adj. Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
- adj. Arranged neatly and in order.
- adj. Not messy; neat and controlled.
- adj. Satisfactory; comfortable.
- adj. (informal) Generous, considerable.
- v. To make tidy; to neaten.
- n. A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
- n. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of…
- n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
- n. The wren.
- interj. (Wales) Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.
total- n. An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
- n. (informal, mathematics) Sum.
- adj. Entire; relating to the whole of something.
- adj. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
- v. (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
- v. To equal a total of; to amount to.
- v. (transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss).
- v. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
urinate- v. (urology) To pass urine from the body.
variety- n. The quality of being varied; diversity.
- n. A specific variation of something.
- n. A number of different things.
- n. A state of constant change.
- n. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
- n. (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
- n. (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
- n. (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect,…
- n. (algebra, esp. universal algebra) The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying…
- n. The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
- n. The production of, or performance in, variety shows.
view- n. (physical) Visual perception.
- n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
- n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
- n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
- n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
- n. A wake.
- v. (transitive) To look at.
- v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.
wee- adj. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
- n. (colloquial, uncountable) urine.
- n. (colloquial) An act of urination.
- v. (colloquial) To urinate.
- pron. obsolete emphatic of we.
wee-wee- n. (childish, slang) Urine; pee-pee.
- n. (childish, slang) The penis; male genitalia; pee-pee.
- v. (intransitive, informal, childish) to urinate.
work- n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
- n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
- n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
- n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
- n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
- v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- v. (transitive) To set into action.
- v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- v. (intransitive) To ferment.
- v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
- v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
- v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
- v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
- v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- v. (transitive) To cause to work.
- v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
- v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
- v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
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