Synonyms of the word

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.

advert

• n. (Britain, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
• v. To turn attention.
• v. To call attention, refer; construed with to.

analyse

• v. British spelling standard spelling of analyze.

analyze

• v. (transitive) To subject to analysis.
• v. (transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
• v. (transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
• v. (transitive) To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined;…

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.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

calumniation

• n. A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.

calumny

• n. A falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another.
• n. False charges brought about to tarnish another's reputation or standing.

canvas

• n. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
• n. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
• n. A basis for creative work.
• n. (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
• n. (nautical) sails in general.
• n. A tent.
• n. A painting, or a picture on canvas.
• n. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show…
• n. Alternative spelling of canvass.
• v. To cover an area or object with canvas.
• v. Alternative spelling of canvass.

canvass

• n. A solicitation of voters or public opinion.
• n. A tally, audit and certification of votes.
• v. To solicit voters, opinions, etc. from; to go through, with personal solicitation or public addresses.
• v. To conduct a survey.
• v. To campaign.
• v. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize.
• v. To examine by discussion; to debate.

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…

cite

• v. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
• v. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
• v. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
• n. (informal) a citation.

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.

defamation

• n. The act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of…

denote

• v. (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
• v. (transitive) To make overt.
• v. (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.

describe

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

determine

• v. To set the boundaries or limits of.
• v. To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
• v. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
• v. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
• v. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence;…
• v. To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
• v. (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
• v. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.

diagnose

• v. (transitive, medicine) To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find…

discover

• v. To find or learn something for the first time.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
• v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
• v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

distinguish

• v. To see someone or something as different from others.
• v. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
• v. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

enumerate

• v. To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.
• v. To determine the amount of.

epithet

• n. A term used to characterize a person or thing.
• n. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
• n. One of many formulaic words or phrases used in Iliad and the Odyssey to characterize a person, a group…
• n. An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
• n. (taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies…

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.

examine

• v. To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
• v. To check the health or condition of something or someone.
• v. To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
• v. To interrogate.

family

• n. (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption);…
• n. (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
• n. (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon…
• n. (countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing…
• n. (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
• n. (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
• n. Used attributively.
• adj. Suitable for children and adults.
• adj. Conservative, traditional.
• adj. (slang) Homosexual.

figure

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

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;…

folk

• adj. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
• adj. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
• adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
• adj. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
• n. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
• n. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
• n. (plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
• n. (music) Folk music.
• n. (plural only) People in general.
• n. (plural only) A particular group of people.

found

• n. Food and lodging, board.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of find.
• v. To begin building.
• v. To start some type of organization or company.
• v. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
• v. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
• n. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

gens

• abbr. generations.
• n. (historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage…
• n. (anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along…

identify

• v. (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
• v. (transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
• v. (transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
• v. (reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
• v. (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
• v. (intransitive) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of…

institute

• n. An organization founded to promote a cause.
• n. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects.
• n. The building housing such an institution.
• n. (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
• n. (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
• n. (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
• v. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.
• v. To nominate; to appoint.
• v. (ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
• adj. (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.

itemise

• v. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of itemize.

itemize

• v. (transitive) To state in items, or by particulars.

key

• n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
• n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
• n. A crucial step or requirement.
• n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
• n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
• n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
• n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
• n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
• n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
• n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
• n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
• n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
• n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
• n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
• n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
• n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
• n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
• n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
• n. (masonry) A keystone.
• n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
• n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
• n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
• adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
• adj. Important, salient.
• v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
• v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
• v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
• v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
• v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
• v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
• v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
• v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
• v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
• v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• n. One of a string of small islands.
• n. Alternative form of quay.
• n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

kinfolk

• n. (US, also in plural) Relatives, relations.

kinsfolk

• n. Alternative spelling of kinfolk.

label

• n. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
• n. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
• n. (music) A company that sells records.
• n. (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
• n. (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
• n. (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
• n. (obsolete) A tassel.
• n. A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
• n. A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
• n. (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
• n. In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
• v. (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
• v. (transitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
• v. (biochemistry) To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of…
• v. (biochemistry) To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance…

limit

• n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
• n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
• n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
• adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
• v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

list

• n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
• n. Material used for cloth selvage.
• n. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
• n. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the…
• n. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially,…
• n. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
• n. (obsolete) A stripe.
• n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
• n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
• n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
• n. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
• n. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
• v. To create or recite a list.
• v. To place in listings.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
• v. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
• v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
• v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
• v. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
• v. To plough and plant with a lister.
• v. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
• n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
• v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
• n. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
• n. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
• v. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
• v. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
• v. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
• n. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

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.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

mention

• n. A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase…
• v. To make a short reference to something.
• v. (philosophy, linguistics) To utter an word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as…

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.

obloquy

• n. Abusive language.
• n. Disgrace suffered from abusive language.
• n. (archaic) A false accusation; malevolent rumors.

personage

• n. A famous or important person.
• n. The creation of corporate persons named after living people.

phratry

• n. (Ancient Greece) A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common…
• n. (anthropology, dated) A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate…

plant

• n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
• n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
• n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
• n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
• n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
• n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
• n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
• n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
• n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
• n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
• n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
• n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
• n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
• n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
• n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
• v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
• v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
• v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
• v. To place in the ground.
• v. To furnish or supply with plants.
• v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
• v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
• v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
• v. To set up; to install; to instate.

recite

• v. (transitive) To repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience.
• v. (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.

refer

• v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
• v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

reputation

• n. What somebody is known for.

repute

• n. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
• v. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something.

sanction

• n. An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
• n. A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted…
• n. A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying either of the above.
• v. (transitive) To ratify; to make valid.
• v. (transitive) To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
• v. (transitive) To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.

sept

• n. A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in…
• v. (nonstandard, rare) simple past tense and past participle of seep.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

specify

• v. (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
• v. (transitive) To include in a specification.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a specific result.

study

• v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
• v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
• v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
• v. To look at minutely.
• v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
• v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
• n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
• n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
• n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
• n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
• n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
• n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
• n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
• n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

traducement

• n. The act of traducing; slander, calumny.