Synonyms of the word

plank

• n. A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
• n. A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position…
• n. Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
• n. (Britain, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
• n. That which supports or upholds.
• v. (transitive) To cover something with planking.
• v. (transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
• v. (transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
• v. To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
• v. (intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.

board

• n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction…
• n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control…
• n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
• n. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
• n. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
• n. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
• n. (nautical) The side of a ship.
• n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
• n. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
• n. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
• n. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
• n. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
• n. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players…
• v. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
• v. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
• v. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her…
• v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
• v. To cover with boards or boarding.
• v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
• v. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
• n. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

dish

• n. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
• n. The contents of such a vessel.
• n. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
• n. (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed…
• n. A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish, radar dish.
• n. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
• n. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
• n. A hollow place, as in a field.
• n. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
• n. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
• n. (slang) Gossip.
• v. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
• v. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
• v. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
• v. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

flump

• v. (intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
• v. (transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.
• n. The dull sound so produced.

lumber

• n. (Canada, US, uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
• n. (Britain) Useless things that are stored away.
• n. (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
• n. (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
• v. (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily.
• v. (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
• v. To heap together in disorder.
• v. To fill or encumber with lumber.

plonk

• interj. The sound made by something solid landing.
• interj. (Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.
• n. (countable) The sound of something solid landing.
• v. (transitive) To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
• v. (transitive, Internet, slang, in Internet forums) To automatically ignore a particular poster; to killfile.
• adv. (followed by a location) Precisely and forcefully.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
• n. (countable, dated, Britain, law enforcement slang) A female police constable.

plop

• n. A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
• n. (Britain, slang) excrement; derived from the "plop" sound made when it hits water in a toilet.
• v. To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To land heavily or loosely.
• v. (Britain) To defecate; derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet.

plump

• v. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
• v. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
• v. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
• v. (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
• v. (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
• v. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
• v. (used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
• adj. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
• adj. Fat.
• adj. Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
• adv. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
• n. (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.

plunk

• v. (transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.
• v. (intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.
• v. (baseball, transitive) To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.
• v. (intransitive, of a raven) To croak.
• v. (transitive) To pluck and quickly release (a musical string); to twang.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).
• n. The dull thud of something landing on a surface.
• n. (slang, obsolete) A large sum of money.
• n. (slang, obsolete, US) A dollar.

policy

• n. (obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
• n. (obsolete) A state; a polity.
• n. (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
• n. (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
• n. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed…
• n. Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
• n. (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
• n. (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
• n. (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
• v. (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
• n. (law).
• n. (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn…
• n. A number pool lottery.

serve

• n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
• n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
• v. (heading, personal) To provide a service.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
• v. (heading) To be effective.
• v. (heading, transitive, law) To deliver a document.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball,…
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
• v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
• v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
• v. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
• v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing…

timber

• n. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
• n. (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy…
• n. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
• n. (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards;…
• n. (music) A misspelling of timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound or tone, independent of its pitch…
• interj. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
• v. (transitive) To fit with timbers.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
• v. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
• v. (obsolete) To make a nest.
• v. To surmount as a timber does.