Synonyms of the word

post

• n. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post.
• n. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
• n. A pole in a battery.
• n. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
• n. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
• n. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
• n. (sports) A goalpost.
• n. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers;…
• v. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
• v. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
• v. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
• v. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
• v. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).
• n. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility…
• n. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of…
• n. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such…
• n. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
• n. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
• n. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person…
• n. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum.
• n. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
• n. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line…
• n. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
• n. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
• v. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
• v. To travel quickly; to hurry.
• v. (Britain) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
• v. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially…
• v. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
• adv. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.
• adv. Sent via the postal service.
• n. An assigned station; a guard post.
• n. An appointed position in an organization, job.
• v. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
• v. To assign to a station; to set; to place.
• prep. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
• n. (film, informal) Post-production.

accumulation

• n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
• n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
• n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
• n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
• n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
• n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

aeronaut

• n. One who glides through the air in an airship or balloon.
• n. balloonist.

affix

• n. That which is affixed; an appendage.
• n. (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.
• n. (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; the term comprises prefixes, suffixes,…
• n. (decorative art) Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel…
• v. To attach.
• v. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
• v. To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.

aggregation

• n. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
• n. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
• n. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
• n. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
• n. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
• n. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

airman

• n. A pilot of an aircraft.
• n. A member of an air force.
• n. A person of a rank in the U.S. Air Force above Airman Basic and below Airman First Class.

announce

• v. (transitive) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
• v. (transitive) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

assemblage

• n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
• n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
• n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

assign

• v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
• v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
• v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
• v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
• v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
• n. An assignee.
• n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

author

• n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
• n. Someone who writes books for a living.
• n. The works of an author or authors.
• v. (chiefly US) To create a work as its author.

aviator

• n. An aircraft pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs…
• n. (obsolete) An experimenter in aviation.
• n. (obsolete) A flying machine.

base

• n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
• n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus…
• n. Important areas in games and sports.
• n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid…
• n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
• n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• n. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
• n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that…
• n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• n. (music) Dated form of bass.
• n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
• n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
• n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour)…
• n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• n. (obsolete) An apron.
• n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from…
• v. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• v. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
• v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
• adj. Low in place or position.
• adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
• adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
• adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• adj. Not classical or correct.
• adj. Obsolete form of bass.
• adj. (law) Not held by honourable service.
• n. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
• acr. Alternative form of BASE.

berth

• n. A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
• n. Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.).
• n. A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
• n. (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
• n. A job or position, especially on a ship.
• n. (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
• n. (sports) position on the field of play.
• v. (transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth.
• v. (transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to.

billet

• n. A short informal letter.
• n. A written order to quarter soldiers.
• n. A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
• n. An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
• n. (figuratively) Berth; position.
• v. (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
• v. (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
• v. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
• n. (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
• n. A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
• n. (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
• n. (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
• n. A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.

brand

• n. (obsolete, rare) A conflagration; a flame.
• n. (archaic or poetic) A piece of burning wood or peat, also a glowing cinder.
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A torch used for signaling.
• n. (archaic) A sword.
• n. A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle, or to classify the contents of a cask.
• n. A branding iron.
• n. A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product or service, or its provider.
• n. A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.
• n. Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner.
• n. The reputation among some population of an organization, of the products sold under a particular brand…
• n. Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.
• v. (transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to…
• v. (transitive) To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
• v. (transitive) To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
• v. (transitive) To stigmatize, label (someone).
• v. (transitive, marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.

bringing

• v. present participle of bring.
• n. The act by which something is brought.

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

carry

• v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
• v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
• v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
• v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
• v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
• v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
• v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
• v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
• v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
• v. To be pregnant (with).
• v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
• v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
• v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
• v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
• v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
• v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
• v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
• v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
• n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
• n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
• n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

collection

• n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• n. The activity of collecting.
• n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
• n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

communicating

• v. present participle of communicate.

communication

• n. The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
• n. (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
• n. A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
• n. The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
• n. An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
• n. A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
• n. (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
• n. (obsolete) Association; company.
• n. Participation in Holy Communion.
• n. (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says…

delegate

• n. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
• n. a representative at a conference, etc.
• n. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
• n. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous…
• v. to authorize someone to be a delegate.
• v. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate.
• v. (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else…

delivery

• n. The act of conveying something.
• n. The item which has been conveyed.
• n. The act of giving birth.
• n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
• n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
• n. The manner of speaking.
• n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
• n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
• n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
• n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

denote

• v. (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
• v. (transitive) To make overt.
• v. (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.

depute

• v. (obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
• v. To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
• v. To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
• v. To appoint; to assign; to choose.
• n. (Scotland) Deputy.

designate

• adj. Designated; appointed; chosen.
• v. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description;…
• v. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
• v. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the…

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

enter

• v. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
• v. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
• v. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
• v. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
• v. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
• v. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
• v. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in…
• v. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods),…
• v. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars…
• v. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”).

flier

• n. Alternative form of flyer (more common in US, except in the sense of "leaflet").
• v. Alternative form of flyer.

flyer

• n. A machine that flies.
• n. Someone who pilots or rides in an airplane.
• n. A leaflet, often for advertising.
• n. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin.
• n. (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) The person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
• n. (firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.
• n. A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
• n. A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
• n. A leap or jump.
• n. A risky investment or other venture.
• v. (intransitive) To distribute flyers (leaflets).
• v. (transitive) To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).

instal

• v. (transitive) Alternative spelling of install.
• v. (Britain, rare) To pay by instalments.
• n. (informal) Installation.

install

• n. (computing) A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
• n. (informal) an installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.).
• v. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
• v. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle in.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

line

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

list

• n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
• n. Material used for cloth selvage.
• n. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
• n. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the…
• n. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially,…
• n. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
• n. (obsolete) A stripe.
• n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
• n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
• n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
• n. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
• n. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
• v. To create or recite a list.
• v. To place in listings.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
• v. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
• v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
• v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
• v. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
• v. To plough and plant with a lister.
• v. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
• n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
• v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
• n. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
• n. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
• v. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
• v. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
• v. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
• n. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

mail

• n. (now regional) A bag or wallet.
• n. A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
• n. The material conveyed by the postal service.
• n. (dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
• n. The postal service or system in general.
• n. (chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels etc delivered to a particular address or person.
• n. (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding…
• n. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
• v. (transitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
• v. (transitive) To send by electronic mail.
• v. (transitive) To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
• n. (uncountable) Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
• n. (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
• n. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
• v. (transitive) To arm with mail.
• v. (transitive) To pinion.
• n. (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
• n. (chiefly Scotland) Rent.
• n. (chiefly Scotland) Tax.

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).

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

occupation

• n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
• n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
• n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

office

• n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly.
• n. A position of responsibility.
• n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
• n. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
• n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral…
• n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
• n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
• n. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
• n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
• n. (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
• n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly.
• n. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
• n. (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly.
• n. (now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen,…
• n. (Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown…
• n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
• n. (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
• n. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
• n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and…
• v. To provide (someone) with an office.
• v. (intransitive) To have an office.

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).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

record

• n. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
• n. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making…
• n. A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
• n. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
• n. The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
• v. (transitive) To make a record of information.
• v. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
• v. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
• v. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
• v. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
• v. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.

send

• v. (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
• v. (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
• v. To bring to a certain condition.
• v. (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
• v. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
• v. (nautical) To pitch.
• n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.

situation

• n. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
• n. The place in which something is situated; a location.
• n. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
• n. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
• n. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
• n. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

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.

stake

• n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven…
• n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer,…
• n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
• n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
• n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
• n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths,…
• n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical…
• v. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
• v. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
• v. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business…

station

• n. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
• n. (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde…
• n. A stopping place.
• n. A place where workers are stationed.
• n. One of the Stations of the Cross.
• n. The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the…
• n. A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
• n. Standing; rank; position.
• n. A broadcasting entity.
• n. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
• n. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
• n. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
• n. (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation…
• n. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere…
• v. To put in place to perform a task.
• v. To put in place to perform military duty.

transfer

• v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
• v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
• v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
• n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
• n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
• n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
• n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
• n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
• n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

upright

• adj. Vertical; erect.
• adj. Greater in height than breadth.
• adj. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
• adj. (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
• adv. in or into an upright position.
• n. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
• n. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic…
• n. (informal) An upright piano.
• n. Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
• v. (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

vertical

• adj. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular…
• adj. In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular,…
• adj. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
• adj. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
• n. A vertex or zenith.
• n. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
• n. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
• n. A vertical component of a structure.
• n. (marketing) A vertical market.

writer

• n. A person who writes, or produces literary work.
• n. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a…
• n. Anything that writes or produces output.