Synonyms of the word noose


NOOSEFASTEN - FIX - GIN - INTERTWINE - LOOP - SECURE - SNARE - TRAP

noose

  • n. An adjustable loop of rope, e.g. the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of…
  • v. (transitive) To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare.

fasten

  • v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
  • v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

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;…

gin

  • n. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats…
  • n. (uncountable) Gin rummy.
  • n. (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
  • n. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
  • n. (obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
  • n. A snare or trap for game.
  • n. A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top,…
  • n. (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  • n. A pile driver.
  • n. A windpump.
  • n. A cotton gin.
  • n. An instrument of torture worked with screws.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
  • v. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
  • v. (archaic) To begin.
  • n. (Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.

intertwine

  • v. (transitive) To twine something together.
  • v. (intransitive) To become twined together.

loop

  • n. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
  • n. The opening so formed.
  • n. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
  • n. A ring road or beltway.
  • n. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
  • n. A complete circuit for an electric current.
  • n. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition…
  • n. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
  • n. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
  • n. (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
  • n. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
  • n. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
  • n. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
  • n. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
  • n. Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).
  • n. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
  • v. (transitive) To form something into a loop.
  • v. (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
  • v. (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
  • v. (transitive) To move something in a loop.
  • v. (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
  • v. (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
  • v. (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer…
  • v. (intransitive) To form a loop.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in a loop.

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.

snare

  • n. A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.
  • n. (rare) A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion.
  • n. (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
  • n. (music) A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.
  • n. (music) A snare drum.
  • v. To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

trap

  • n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a…
  • n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
  • n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
  • n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
  • n. The game of trapball itself.
  • n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
  • n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents…
  • n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
  • n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
  • n. (slang) A person's mouth.
  • n. (in the plural) Belongings.
  • n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
  • n. (sports) Trapshooting.
  • n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  • n. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
  • n. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner…
  • n. (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
  • n. A kind of movable stepladder.
  • n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
  • v. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
  • v. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
  • v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
  • v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
  • v. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell narcotics, especially in a public…
  • v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
  • n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap…
  • v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
  • n. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

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