Synonyms of the word

margin

• n. (typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
• n. The edge or border of any flat surface.
• n. (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
• n. A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
• n. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
• n. (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
• n. (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into…
• v. To add a margin to.

allowance

• n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting.
• n. Acknowledgment.
• n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty,…
• n. a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
• n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
• n. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries.
• n. A child's allowance; pocket money.
• n. (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing…
• n. (obsolete) approval; approbation.
• n. (obsolete) license; indulgence.
• v. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

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.

border

• n. The outer edge of something.
• n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
• n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
• n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
• n. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance…
• v. (transitive) To put a border on something.
• v. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
• v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

boundary

• n. The dividing line or location between two areas.
• n. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
• n. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without…

deposit

• n. Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material…
• n. That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care…
• n. (banking) Money placed in an account.
• n. Anything left behind on a surface.
• n. (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve…
• n. A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned,…
• n. A place of deposit; a depository.
• v. (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
• v. To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
• v. To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
• v. (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
• v. To lay aside; to rid oneself of.

disagreement

• n. An argument or debate.
• n. A condition of not agreeing or concurring.

discrepancy

• n. An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
• n. The state or quality of being discrepant.

divergence

• n. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
• n. (obsolete) disagreement; difference.
• n. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

earnings

• n. wages, money earned, income.
• n. (finance) business profits.
• n. (finance) gains on investments; returns.

edge

• n. The boundary line of a surface.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
• n. An advantage.
• n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
• n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
• n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
• n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
• n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
• n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
• n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
• v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
• v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
• v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
• v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
• v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
• v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

leeway

• n. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
• n. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.
• n. (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

lucre

• n. Gain in money or goods; profit; riches. Often in a negative sense.

net

• n. A mesh of string, cord or rope.
• n. A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
• n. A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
• n. Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
• n. (by extension) A trap.
• n. (geometry) Of a polyhedron, any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges…
• n. A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between…
• n. (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
• n. (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
• n. (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
• v. (transitive) To catch by means of a net.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
• v. To enclose or cover with a net.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To score (a goal).
• v. (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
• v. To form network or netting; to knit.
• adj. (obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
• adj. Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
• adj. Remaining after expenses or deductions.
• adj. Final; end.
• adv. After expenses or deductions.
• n. The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
• v. (transitive) To receive as profit.
• v. (transitive) To yield as profit for.
• v. To fully hedge a position.

perimeter

• n. (mathematics) The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object.
• n. (mathematics) The length of such a boundary.
• n. The outer limits of an area. See synonyms at circumference.
• n. A fortified strip or boundary usually protecting a military position.
• n. An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.

place

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

profit

• n. Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization…
• n. (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
• n. (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land…
• v. (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
• v. (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
• v. (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.

profits

• n. plural of profit.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of profit.

slip

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

space

• n. (heading) Of time.
• n. (heading) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
• n. (heading) A bounded or specific physical extent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
• v. (transitive) To set some distance apart.
• v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
• v. (transitive) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

strip

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

tolerance

• n. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
• n. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions…
• n. (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with…
• n. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in…
• n. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

variance

• n. The act of varying or the state of being variable.
• n. A difference between what is expected and what happens.
• n. The state of differing or being in conflict.
• n. A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents.
• n. (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
• n. (computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally.