Synonyms of the word

node

• n. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
• n. (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The…
• n. (botany) A stem node.
• n. (computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
• n. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions;…
• n. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode,…
• n. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
• n. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or…
• n. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
• n. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
• n. (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour…
• n. (linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

client

• n. A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
• n. (computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided…
• n. Person who receives help or advice from a professional person (ex. a lawyer, an accountant, a social worker,…
• n. (law) A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one…

computer

• n. (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
• n. by restriction, a male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
• n. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially…

connection

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

connexion

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

convexity

• n. The state of being convex.
• n. A convex line or surface.
• n. A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.

guest

• n. A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
• n. A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
• n. An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
• n. (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
• n. (zoology) An inquiline.
• v. (intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.

knob

• n. A rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch.
• n. (geography) A prominent rounded hill.
• n. A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
• n. A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
• n. (plural) (slang) Breasts.
• n. (England, New Zealand, some parts of America, vulgar, slang) A penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A contemptible person.
• n. (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
• n. A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
• v. (Britain, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sex with.

link

• n. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
• n. One element of a chain or other connected series.
• n. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
• n. (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
• n. (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
• n. (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
• n. (figuratively) an individual person or element in a system.
• n. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
• n. A sausage that is not a patty.
• n. (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod,…
• n. (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting…
• n. (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches,…
• n. (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force…
• v. (transitive) To connect two or more things.
• v. (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
• v. (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
• v. (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
• n. (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
• v. (Scotland) To skip or trip along smartly.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

thickening

• n. The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
• n. A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
• n. A thickened part of a structure.
• v. present participle of thicken.