Synonym of the word POINT

point

n. A discrete division of something.
n. A sharp extremity.
n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
n. Lace worked by the needle.
n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
v. (obsolete) To appoint.
v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

aim

n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the…
n. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
n. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
n. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
n. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
v. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or…
v. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try…
v. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act,…
v. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group.
v. (obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
n. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

amount

n. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard…
n. A quantity or volume.
n. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
v. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.

be

v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

bespeak

v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

betoken

v. To signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
v. To foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.

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.

channelise

v. (British spelling) alternative form of channelize.

channelize

v. To form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river.
v. (transitive) To transmit through a channel.
v. (transitive) To multiplex (messages) through a single line.

characteristic

adj. Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
n. a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
n. (mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm.
n. (nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be…
n. (algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself…

charge

n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
n. A load or burden; cargo.
n. The amount of money levied for a service.
n. An instruction.
n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
n. An accusation.
n. An electric charge.
n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
n. A forceful forward movement.
n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
v. To impute or ascribe.
v. To call to account; to challenge.
v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

command

n. An order to do something.
n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

component

n. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part…
adj. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
adj. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.

constituent

adj. Being a part, or component of a whole.
adj. Authorized to make a constitution.
n. A part, or component of a whole.
n. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
n. A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
n. (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
n. (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.

contact

n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
n. The establishment of communication (with).
n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
n. (informal) A contact lens.
n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

control

v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

convexity

n. The state of being convex.
n. A convex line or surface.
n. A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.

deform

v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

degree

n. (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
n. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
n. A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
n. (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
n. (now rare) One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
n. The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
n. A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university…
n. (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.
n. (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
n. (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
n. (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
n. (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc…

detail

n. (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
n. (uncountable) A profusion of details.
n. Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
n. (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
n. (military) A temporary unit or assignment.
n. A part distinct from the whole.
n. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
v. (transitive) to explain in detail.
v. (transitive) (US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car) ([ˈdi(ː)teɪɫ]).
v. (transitive, military) to assign to a particular task.

direct

adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
adj. Straightforward; sincere.
adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
adv. Directly.
v. To manage, control, steer.
v. To aim (something) at (something else).
v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

direction

n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
n. An general trend for future action.
n. Guidance, instruction.
n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
n. (archaic) An address.

disc

n. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
n. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
n. Something resembling a disc.
n. A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.

disk

n. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
n. (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
n. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
n. (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
n. (computing) A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
n. (computing, nonstandard) A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
n. (agriculture) A harrow.
n. (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less…
v. (agriculture) to harrow.

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.

dot

n. A small spot.
n. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word;…
n. A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin…
n. (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part,…
n. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
n. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
n. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
n. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
v. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
v. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
v. To mark by means of dots or small spots.
v. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
prep. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
n. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.

element

n. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution…
n. A small part of the whole.
n. (plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
n. A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
n. (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
n. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
n. A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating…
n. (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching…

end

n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
n. Death, especially miserable.
n. Result.
n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

fact

n. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.
n. (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
n. (obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.
n. An honest observation.
n. Something actual as opposed to invented.
n. Something which is real.
n. Something which has become real.
n. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
n. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
n. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
interj. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

factor

n. (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
n. (now rare) An agent or representative.
n. (law).
n. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
n. (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
n. (root cause analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing…
n. (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
n. (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
v. (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide…
v. (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
v. (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

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;…

foreland

n. A headland.
n. (geology) In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.

guide

n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer…
n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
n. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for…
v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
v. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
v. to supervise the education or training of someone.
v. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

gunpoint

n. A location in the front of the muzzle of a gun.
n. Threat or coercion by display or aiming a firearm or similar weapon.

head

n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
n. A significant or important part.
n. Headway; progress.
n. Topic; subject.
n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
n. (slang) The glans penis.
n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
adj. Placed at the top or the front.
adj. Coming from in front.
v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
v. (intransitive) To form a head.
v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
v. To set on the head.

headland

n. A bit of coastal land that juts into the sea.
n. The unplowed boundary of a field.

import

n. (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
n. (uncountable) The practice of importing.
n. (uncountable) Significance, importance.
v. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
v. (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
v. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
v. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
v. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
v. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
v. (transitive) To mean, signify.
v. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

indicate

v. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
v. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
v. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
v. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

inform

v. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
v. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
v. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
v. To act as an informer; denounce.
v. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with…
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
v. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
adj. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

ingredient

n. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

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.

label

n. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
n. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
n. (music) A company that sells records.
n. (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
n. (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
n. (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
n. (obsolete) A tassel.
n. A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
n. A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
n. (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
n. In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
v. (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
v. (transitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
v. (biochemistry) To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of…
v. (biochemistry) To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance…

level

adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
adj. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
adj. Unvaried in frequency.
adj. Unvaried in volume.
adj. Calm.
adj. In the same position or rank.
adj. Straightforward; direct; clear.
adj. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
adj. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection ; monotonic.
n. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
n. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
n. Degree or amount.
n. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
n. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered…
n. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
n. A floor of a multi-storey building.
n. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
n. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
v. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
v. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
v. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
v. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
v. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
v. (nonstandard, rare) To levy.
v. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege,…
v. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
v. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

lie

v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

location

n. A particular point or place in physical space.
n. An act of locating.
n. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
n. (law) A leasing on rent.
n. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
n. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according…

luff

n. (nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
n. (nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
n. (nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
n. (nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft…
v. (nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
v. (nautical, of a boat, intransitive) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively…
v. (nautical, transitive) to let out [a sail] so that it luffs.
v. (mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.

maneuver

n. A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
n. (often in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
n. An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
v. (transitive) To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
v. (figuratively, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully.
v. (figuratively, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme.

manoeuver

n. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of maneuver.
v. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of maneuver.

manoeuvre

n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.
v. (transitive) British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling…

mark

n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
n. (heading) Attention.
v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
v. To take note of.
v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
n. A mark coin.
v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

meaning

n. The symbolic value of something.
n. The significance of a thing.
n. (semantics) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
n. (obsolete) Intention.
v. present participle of mean.
adj. Having a (specified) intention.
adj. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.

measure

n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
n. The act or result of measuring.
n. Metrical rhythm.
n. A course of action.
v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
v. To estimate the unit size of something.
v. To judge, value, or appraise.
v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

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.

muzzle

n. The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout.
n. The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as…
n. A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
n. (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle.
n. (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming…
v. (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or…
v. (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
v. (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

object

n. A thing that has physical existence.
n. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase.…
n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists…
n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach;…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

objective

adj. Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
adj. Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
adj. Based on observed facts.
adj. (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
adj. (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an…
n. A material object that physically exists.
n. A goal that is striven for.
n. (grammar) The objective case; a noun or pronoun in that case.
n. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

orient

v. (transitive) To familiarize with a situation or circumstance.
v. (transitive, figuratively) To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group.
v. (transitive) To point at or direct towards.
v. (transitive) To determine which direction one is facing.
v. (transitive) To place or build so as to face eastward.
v. (intransitive) To change direction so as to face east.
v. (by extension) To change direction to face a certain way.
v. (transitive) To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding…
n. Alternative letter-case form of Orient.
n. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
n. (obsolete) A pearl of orient.
adj. (obsolete, poetic) Rising, like the sun.
adj. eastern; oriental.
adj. Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most…

outlet

n. A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
n. Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
n. A river that runs out of a lake.
n. A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
n. A wall-mounted device such as a socket or receptacle connected to an electrical system at which current…

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.

peak

n. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
n. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
n. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
n. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
n. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
n. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
n. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
n. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is…
v. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
v. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
v. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
v. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
v. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
v. Misspelling of pique.

period

adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
n. A length of time.
n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
n. Female menstruation.
n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

place

n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
n. A location or position in space.
n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
n. A frame of mind.
n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

pointedness

n. The quality of being pointed.

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.

promontory

n. A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.
n. (anatomy) A projecting part of the body.

punctuation

n. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into…
n. An act of punctuating.

quantity

n. A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector,…
n. An indefinite amount of something.
n. A specific measured amount.
n. A considerable measure or amount.
n. (metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can…
n. (mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.

relevance

n. The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.

relevancy

n. (law, Scotland) Sufficieny (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence.
n. (uncountable) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability.
n. (countable) A relevant thing.

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.

repoint

v. (masonry) To replace or repair the pointing in brickwork.

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.

sail

n. (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the…
n. (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
n. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
n. (dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail.
n. The blade of a windmill.
n. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
n. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
n. (fishing) A sailfish.
n. (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids.
n. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
v. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled…
v. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
v. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
v. To set sail; to begin a voyage.
v. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
v. To move briskly.

saucer

n. A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
n. An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer).
n. (obsolete) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.
n. A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
n. A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
v. (transitive) To pour (tea, etc.) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.

sharpen

v. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To make sharp.

show

v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
n. (countable) A demonstration.
n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
n. (countable) A movie.
n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
n. A project or presentation.
n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

signal

n. A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted…
n. An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
n. (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electrical or electromagnetic action, normally a voltage…
n. A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
n. Useful information, as opposed to noise.
n. (computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate.
adj. Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.

significance

n. The extent to which something matters; importance.
n. Meaning.

signification

n. The act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance.
n. Evidence for the existence of something.
n. A meaning of a word.

spot

n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
n. A location or area.
n. A parking space.
n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
n. Difficult situation; predicament.
n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
n. An autosoliton.
n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

stage

n. A phase.
n. A platform, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
n. A floor or storey of a house.
n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
n. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
n. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
n. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked…
n. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
n. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
n. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
n. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
v. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
v. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
v. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
v. To place in position to prepare for use.

state

n. A polity.
n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
n. High social standing or circumstance.
n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
v. (transitive) To make known.
adj. (obsolete) stately.

steer

n. The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
v. (transitive) To castrate (a male calf).
n. (informal) A suggestion about a course of action.
v. (intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a…
v. (transitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder,…
v. (intransitive) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
v. (transitive) To direct a group of animals.
v. (transitive) To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
v. (transitive) To direct a conversation.
v. To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
n. (obsolete) A helmsman; a pilot.

stop

v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
v. (intransitive) To not continue.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
v. (intransitive) To tarry.
v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
n. (photography) An f-stop.
n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
interj. halt! stop!
punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

take

v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
v. (transitive) To remove.
v. (transitive) To have sex with.
v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
v. (transitive) To consume.
v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
v. (transitive) To require.
v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
v. (transitive) To move into.
v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
v. (transitive) To deal with.
v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
n. The or an act of taking.
n. Something that is taken; a haul.
n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

tangency

n. The state of being tangent; an instance of (something) being tangent.

taper

n. A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle.
n. (by extension) a small light.
n. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
n. A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
v. (transitive) To make thinner or narrower at one end.
v. (intransitive) To diminish gradually.
n. (weaving) One who operates a tape machine.
n. Someone who works with tape or tapes.

target

n. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
n. A goal or objective.
n. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
n. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually…
n. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
n. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
n. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
n. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to…
n. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
n. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
n. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer,…
n. (Britain, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast…
n. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
n. (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
v. (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
v. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
v. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.

tell

v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
v. (transitive) To narrate.
v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
v. (transitive) To reveal.
v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

tip

n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
n. A piece of advice.
v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

train

n. Elongated portion.
n. Connected sequence of people or things.
v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
v. To proceed in sequence.
v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

unit

n. (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
n. The number one.
n. Clipping of international unit.
n. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
n. (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
n. (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table…
n. (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
n. (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used.…
n. (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit…
n. (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
n. (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element.
n. (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of…
n. (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive…
n. (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
n. (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
n. (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
n. (Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment…
n. (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
adj. For each unit.
adj. (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

Synonyms of the word

point

aim

amount

be

bespeak

betoken

bushel

channelise

channelize

characteristic

charge

command

component

constituent

contact

control

convexity

deform

degree

detail

direct

direction

disc

disk

doctor

dot

element

end

fact

factor

fix

foreland

guide

gunpoint

head

headland

import

indicate

inform

ingredient

item

label

level

lie

location

luff

maneuver

manoeuver

manoeuvre

mark

meaning

measure

mend

muzzle

object

objective

orient

outlet

part

peak

period

place

pointedness

portion

promontory

punctuation

quantity

relevance

relevancy

repair

repoint

restore

sail

saucer

sharpen

show

signal

significance

signification