Synonyms of the word

patter

• n. The soft sound of feet walking on a hard surface.
• v. To make irregularly repeated sounds of low-to-moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch.
• v. To spatter; to sprinkle.
• n. Glib and rapid speech, such as from an auctioneer, or banter during a sports event.
• v. To speak in such a way – glibly and rapidly, such as from an auctioneer, or when bantering during a sports…
• n. One who pats.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

pitter-patter

• n. A soft, percussive sound, as of tiny feet or rain on a rooftop.

rain

• n. Condensed water falling from a cloud.
• n. (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise…
• n. (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
• v. (impersonal) To have rain fall from the sky.
• v. To fall as or like rain.
• v. (intransitive) To fall like rain.
• v. (transitive) To issue (something) in large quantities.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

spatter

• v. (transitive) To splash with small droplets.
• v. (transitive) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

spiel

• n. A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
• n. A fast excuse or sales pitch.
• n. An early form of rap music.
• v. To talk at length.
• n. A game of curling.

spit

• n. A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
• n. A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
• n. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
• v. To impale on a spit.
• v. To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
• v. To spade; to dig.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth.
• v. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
• v. (transitive) To utter violently.
• v. (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, utter.
• n. (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
• n. (countable) An instance of spitting.

sprinkle

• v. (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for…
• v. (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
• v. (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
• v. (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse;…
• n. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
• n. A light rain shower.