Synonyms of the word

piece

• n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
• n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
• n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
• n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
• n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
• n. An artillery gun.
• n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
• n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
• n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
• n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
• n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
• n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
• n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
• n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
• n. (US) A pacifier.
• n. (colloquial) A distance.
• v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
• v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
• v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

assemble

• v. (transitive) To put together.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather as a group.
• v. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code.

bit

• n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
• n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
• n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
• n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
• n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
• n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
• n. A small amount of something.
• n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• n. A portion of something.
• n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
• n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
• n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
• n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
• n. The cutting iron of a plane.
• adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
• v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
• v. simple past tense of bite.
• v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
• adj. (colloquial) bitten.
• adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
• n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
• n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
• n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
• n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

bushel

• n. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
• n. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
• n. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
• n. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
• n. (Britain) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. In the United States it is called a box.
• v. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.

case

• n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
• n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
• n. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
• n. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
• n. (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
• n. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
• n. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within…
• n. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
• n. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
• v. (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
• n. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
• n. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
• n. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
• n. An enclosing frame or casing.
• n. A suitcase.
• n. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be…
• n. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
• n. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally…
• n. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case)…
• n. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
• n. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid…
• n. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
• n. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
• adj. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
• v. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
• v. (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
• v. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for…

composition

• n. The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
• n. The general makeup of a thing or person.
• n. (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities;…
• n. (obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.
• n. (law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from…
• n. A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
• n. An essay.
• n. (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
• n. A work of music, literature or art.
• n. (printing) Typesetting.
• n. (mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.
• n. (obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
• n. Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
• n. (painting, photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
• n. (object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

conjoin

• v. (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.
• v. (transitive) To marry.
• v. (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate…
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
• v. (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.

create

• v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
• v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
• v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
• v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
• v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
• adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

creation

• n. (countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.
• n. (uncountable) The act of creating something.
• n. (uncountable) All which exists.

distance

• n. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily)…
• n. Length or interval of time.
• n. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
• n. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
• n. Remoteness in succession or relation.
• n. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
• n. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
• v. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

doctor

• n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The…
• n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees…
• n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
• n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
• n. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
• n. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
• n. A fish, the friar skate.
• v. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
• v. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
• v. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or…
• v. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
• v. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

eat

• v. To ingest; to be ingested.
• v. To use up.
• v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
• v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
• n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

example

• n. Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
• n. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
• n. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated…
• n. A person punished as a warning to others.
• n. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
• n. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise…
• v. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

firearm

• n. A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.

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;…

gun

• n. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• n. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
• n. (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed…
• n. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
• n. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
• n. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
• v. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
• v. To speed something up.
• v. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
• v. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
• v. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
• v. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

helping

• n. (countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps…
• n. (figuratively, countable) An amount or quantity.
• v. present participle of help.

instance

• n. (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
• n. (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
• n. (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
• n. Occasion; order of occurrence.
• n. A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
• n. One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
• n. (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
• n. (computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local…
• n. (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each…
• n. (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
• v. (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite.
• v. (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.

item

• n. A distinct physical object.
• n. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
• n. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
• n. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
• n. A matter for discussion in an agenda.
• n. (informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
• n. A short article in a newspaper.
• n. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.

join

• v. (transitive) To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
• v. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
• v. (transitive) To come into the company of.
• v. (transitive) To become a member of.
• v. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• v. To unite in marriage.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
• v. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
• n. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
• n. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• n. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…

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.

man

• n. An adult male human.
• n. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
• n. A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.).
• n. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.).
• n. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
• n. (obsolete) A sentient being, whether human or supernatural.
• n. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity,…
• n. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
• n. A husband.
• n. A lover; a boyfriend.
• n. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used…
• n. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last…
• n. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
• n. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
• n. An adult male servant. (historical) A vassal. A subject.
• n. A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
• n. (MLE, slang) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
• n. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,…
• n. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.
• adj. Only used in man enough.
• interj. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing…
• v. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
• v. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
• v. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence…

mend

• n. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
• n. The act of repairing.
• v. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay,…
• v. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
• v. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
• v. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

music

• n. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.
• n. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.
• n. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes…
• n. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
• v. (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

nibble

• n. A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
• n. (in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
• v. (transitive) To eat with small, quick bites.
• v. (transitive) To bite lightly.
• v. (figuratively) To consume gradually.
• n. (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.

opus

• n. A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published…
• n. A work, especially of art.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

patch

• n. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen…
• n. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
• n. A repair intended to be used for a limited time; (differs from previous usage in that it is intended to…
• n. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location,…
• n. (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
• n. An area of professional responsibility.
• n. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty; an imitation beauty mark.
• n. (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
• n. (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin; the drug…
• n. (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
• n. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
• n. (computing) A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program or that describes changes made to a…
• n. A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
• n. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
• n. (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical…
• n. A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
• v. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
• v. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
• v. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
• v. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
• v. A temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
• v. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner.
• v. (computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence.
• v. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
• n. (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

percentage

• n. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
• n. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
• n. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

pick

• n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
• n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
• n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
• n. A choice; ability to choose.
• n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
• n. (basketball) A screen.
• n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (American football) An interception.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• n. (baseball) A pickoff.
• n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
• n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
• v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
• v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
• v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
• v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
• v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
• v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
• v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
• v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
• v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
• v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
• v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
• v. To steal; to pilfer.
• v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
• v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

repair

• n. The act of repairing something.
• n. The result of repairing something.
• n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
• v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
• v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
• n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
• n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
• v. To transfer oneself to another place.
• v. to pair again.

restore

• n. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
• v. (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
• v. (transitive) To bring back to a previous condition or state.
• v. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to…
• v. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
• v. (computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
• v. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.

serving

• adj. That or who serves or serve.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to serve.
• n. (countable) A portion (especially, of a meal) served to someone.
• n. (countable) A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it.
• v. present participle of serve.

share

• n. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
• n. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit…
• n. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
• n. (Internet) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
• n. The sharebone or pubis.
• v. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
• v. To have or use in common.
• v. To divide and distribute.
• v. To tell to another.
• v. (obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
• n. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

slice

• n. That which is thin and broad.
• n. A thin, broad piece cut off.
• n. amount.
• n. A piece of pizza.
• n. (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
• n. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
• n. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything,…
• n. A salver, platter, or tray.
• n. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned,…
• n. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare…
• n. (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
• n. (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook,…
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
• n. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed…
• n. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.).
• v. To cut into slices.
• v. To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
• v. (golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
• v. (tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low…
• v. (badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
• v. (soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
• v. (rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
• v. (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

spell

• n. (obsolete) Speech, discourse.
• n. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
• n. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
• v. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
• v. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
• v. (intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
• v. (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
• v. To constitute; to measure.
• v. (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
• v. (transitive) To rest (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
• n. A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
• n. (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
• n. (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short…
• n. A period of rest; time off.
• n. (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
• n. (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
• n. (dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
• n. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

splice

• n. (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
• n. (electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
• n. (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
• n. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
• n. (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together…
• v. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the…
• v. To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which…
• v. (slang) To unite in marriage.
• v. (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
• v. (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.

tack

• n. A small nail with a flat head.
• n. A thumbtack.
• n. (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
• n. (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
• n. (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.
• n. A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
• n. (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes…
• n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
• n. (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled;…
• n. Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated…
• n. (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive…
• n. Hardtack.
• n. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
• n. (law, Scotland) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
• n. (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
• v. To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
• v. To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
• v. (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes…
• v. To add something as an extra item.
• v. Often paired with "up", to place the tack on a horse.
• n. A stain; a tache.
• n. (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
• n. (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.

thing

• n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
• n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
• n. An individual object or distinct entity.
• n. (informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
• n. (law).
• n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion.
• n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
• n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
• n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
• n. (slang) A penis.
• n. A living being or creature.
• n. That which matters; the crux.
• n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
• n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.).
• n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
• v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.

time

• n. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
• n. A duration of time.
• n. An instant of time.
• n. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
• n. (countable) Ratio of comparison.
• n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
• n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
• v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
• v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
• v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
• v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
• v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
• v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
• interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.

while

• n. An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
• conj. During the same time that.
• conj. Although.
• conj. (Northern England, Scotland) Until.
• conj. As long as.
• v. (transitive) To pass (time) idly.
• v. To loiter.