Synonyms of the word

picket

• n. A stake driven into the ground.
• n. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the…
• n. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
• n. (military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance…
• n. A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
• n. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the…
• n. (card games) The card game piquet.
• v. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
• v. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
• v. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

demonstrate

• v. To display the method of using an object.
• v. To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
• v. To participate in or organize a demonstration.
• v. To show, display, present.

demonstrator

• n. The forefinger.
• n. One who takes part in a demonstration, a protester.
• n. One who demonstrates products in a retail environment, a merchandiser.
• n. An item, particularly a vehicle, used in demonstrations to a customer or user.

detachment

• n. (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
• n. (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
• n. (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
• n. (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for particular purpose or…
• n. (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
• n. (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
• n. (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.

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;…

lookout

• n. A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.
• n. A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, etc.
• n. A subject for observation; a prospect or view.
• n. One's perspective, outlook; hence, one's responsibility. (used with a possessive pronoun or a noun in…

march

• n. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
• n. A political rally or parade.
• n. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music).
• n. Steady forward movement or progression.
• n. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
• v. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
• v. To go to war; to make military advances.
• n. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
• n. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
• n. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
• v. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers.
• n. (obsolete) Smallage.

pale

• adj. Light in color.
• adj. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
• adj. Feeble, faint.
• v. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
• v. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
• v. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
• n. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
• n. A wooden stake; a picket.
• n. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
• n. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
• n. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
• n. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
• n. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
• n. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
• n. A cheese scoop.
• n. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
• v. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

piquet

• n. (card games) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes,…

protester

• n. One who protests, either singly or in a public display of group feeling.
• n. (law) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.

scout

• n. A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about…
• n. An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
• n. A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the…
• n. A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf…
• n. (Britain) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge…
• n. (Britain, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
• n. (historical, Britain, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.
• v. (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as…
• v. (transitive) To reject with contempt.
• v. (intransitive) To scoff.
• n. (dated) A swift sailing boat.
• n. (archaic) A projecting rock.

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.

sentinel

• n. A sentry or guard.
• n. (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a…
• n. Watch; guard.
• n. A sentinel crab.
• v. (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
• v. (transitive) To post as guard.
• v. (transitive) To post a guard for.

sentry

• n. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
• n. (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
• n. (nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.

spotter

• n. A person who observes something.
• n. (military) A member of a sniper team.
• n. (weightlifting, gymnastics, climbing) One who supervises a person performing an activity, in order to…
• n. (US) A banksman or dogman.

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).

torture

• n. Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
• n. (chiefly literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
• n. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment.
• v. (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

torturing

• n. An act of torture.
• v. present participle of torture.

watch

• n. A portable or wearable timepiece.
• n. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
• n. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
• n. A person or group of people who guard.
• n. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
• n. (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty:…
• n. (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the…
• n. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
• v. (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
• v. (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
• v. (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
• v. (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
• v. (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
• v. (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.

watcher

• n. someone who watches or observes.
• n. someone who keeps vigil.
• n. a guard.

watchman

• n. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a…