Synonyms of the word

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

adjure

• v. (often legal) To issue a formal command.
• v. To earnestly appeal or advise.

advertise

• v. (transitive, now rare) To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
• v. (transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
• v. (intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
• v. (transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public…

advertize

• v. Alternative spelling of advertise.

advise

• v. (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
• v. (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.
• v. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To look at, watch; to see.

agitate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
• v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
• v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
• v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

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…

beseech

• v. To beg or implore (a person).
• v. To request or beg for.
• n. (archaic) A request.

bid

• v. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
• v. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to pray for; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
• v. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
• v. (transitive) To offer as a price.
• v. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
• v. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
• n. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
• n. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
• n. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

campaign

• n. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
• n. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
• n. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
• v. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
• v. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.

cast

• v. (heading, physical) To move, or be moved, away.
• v. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
• v. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
• v. (heading, social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
• v. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
• v. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
• v. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
• v. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
• v. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
• v. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by…
• v. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
• v. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
• v. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
• v. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
• v. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
• n. An act of throwing.
• n. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
• n. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
• n. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
• n. The casting procedure.
• n. An object made in a mould.
• n. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
• n. The mould used to make cast objects.
• n. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
• n. A squint.
• n. Visual appearance.
• n. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
• n. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
• n. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
• n. A group of crabs.

clamp

• n. A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
• n. (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
• n. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
• n. A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
• n. A heavy footstep; a tramp.
• n. (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
• v. (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
• v. (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range.
• v. (Britain, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.

clinch

• v. To clasp; to interlock.
• v. To make certain; to finalize.
• v. To fasten securely or permanently.
• v. To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
• v. To embrace passionately.
• v. To hold firmly; to clench.
• v. To set closely together; to close tightly.
• n. Any of several fastenings.
• n. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
• n. (obsolete) A pun.
• n. (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of…
• n. A passionate embrace.
• n. In combat sports the act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engange…

closet

• n. (obsolete) Any private area, particularly bowers in the open air.
• n. (now rare) Any private or inner room, particularly.
• n. (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
• n. A private cabinet, particularly.
• n. (now chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side-room, particularly.
• n. (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
• adj. (obsolete) Private.
• adj. Secret, particularly with reference to secret homosexuals in the closet.
• v. (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
• v. (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
• v. (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

compact

• n. An agreement or contract.
• adj. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
• adj. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
• adj. (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
• adj. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
• adj. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
• n. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's…
• n. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
• v. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
• v. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

compress

• v. (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space…
• v. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
• v. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
• v. (transitive) To abridge.
• v. (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
• v. (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
• n. A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing…
• n. A machine for compressing.

conjure

• v. (intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
• v. (transitive) To summon up using supernatural power, as a devil.
• v. (intransitive) To practice black magic.
• v. (transitive) To evoke.
• v. (transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire or plot.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

constrict

• v. To narrow, especially by applying pressure.

contract

• n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
• n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
• n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
• v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
• v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• v. To betroth; to affiance.

counsel

• n. The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
• n. Exercise of judgment; prudence.
• n. Advice; guidance.
• n. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
• n. (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
• n. A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
• v. To give advice, especially professional advice.
• v. To recommend.

count

• v. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
• v. (transitive) To determine the number (of objects in a group).
• v. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
• v. (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
• v. (transitive) To consider something an example of something.
• v. (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
• v. (Britain, law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
• n. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
• n. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
• n. A countdown.
• n. (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
• n. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
• n. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
• n. The male ruler of a county.
• n. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.

create

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

crowd

• v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
• v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
• v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
• v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
• v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
• v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
• v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
• v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
• n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
• n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
• n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
• n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
• n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
• n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

crusade

• n. Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to…
• n. Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned…
• n. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
• n. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
• v. To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

entreat

• n. Alternative form of entreaty.
• v. (obsolete) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
• v. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or…
• v. To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
• v. (obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
• v. (obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
• v. (obsolete) To make an earnest petition or request.

estate

• n. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
• n. (now rare, archaic) State; condition.
• n. (archaic) Status, rank.
• n. (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.
• n. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.
• n. (historical) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic…
• n. (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
• n. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.
• n. The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
• n. (Britain, sometimes pejorative) A housing estate.
• n. (Britain, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear…
• n. (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

exercise

• n. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
• n. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
• n. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
• n. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
• n. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
• v. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
• v. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
• v. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
• v. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful…
• v. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

exhort

• v. To urge; to advise earnestly.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

flatten

• v. (transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
• v. (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order…
• v. (transitive) To knock down or lay low.
• v. (intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
• v. (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
• v. (music) To lower by a semitone.
• v. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
• v. (programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array…
• v. (computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

furniture

• n. (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics,…
• n. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
• n. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
• n. (firearms) the stock and forearm of a weapon.

imperativeness

• n. The state or condition of being imperative.

insistence

• n. the state of being insistent.
• n. an urgent demand.
• n. (fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.

insistency

• n. The quality of being insistent.

iron

• n. (uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets,…
• n. (uncountable, physics, chemistry, metallurgy) A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and…
• n. (uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
• n. (countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something…
• n. (usually plural, irons) Shackles.
• n. (slang) A handgun.
• n. (uncountable) A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof; countable, offensive) A male homosexual.
• n. (golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
• n. (uncountable) Great strength or power.
• adj. (not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
• adj. (figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
• v. (transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or arm with iron.

jam

• n. A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used…
• n. (countable) A difficult situation.
• n. (countable) Blockage, congestion.
• n. (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
• n. (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
• n. (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
• n. (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
• n. (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
• n. (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
• n. (Britain, slang) luck.
• n. (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
• v. To get something stuck in a confined space.
• v. To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
• v. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
• v. To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
• v. (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
• v. (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
• v. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
• v. (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
• v. (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
• n. (dated) A kind of frock for children.
• n. (mining) Alternative form of jamb.

machine

• n. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a…
• n. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
• n. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
• n. (computing) A computer.
• n. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient,…
• n. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting…
• n. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
• n. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially…
• n. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
• v. to make by machinery.
• v. to shape or finish by machinery.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

mass

• n. (physical) Matter, material.
• n. A large quantity; a sum.
• n. (quantity) Large in number.
• v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
• v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
• adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
• adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
• n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
• n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
• n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
• n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

matter

• n. Substance, material.
• n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
• n. An approximate amount or extent.
• n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
• n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
• n. (dated) Pus.
• v. (intransitive) To be important.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
• v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

mold

• n. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
• n. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
• n. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
• n. The shape or pattern of a mold.
• n. General shape or form.
• n. Distinctive character or type.
• n. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
• n. (architecture) A group of moldings.
• n. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
• v. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold.
• v. (transitive) To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
• v. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence.
• v. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
• v. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
• v. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
• v. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
• n. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material…
• v. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
• v. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
• n. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
• v. To cover with mold or soil.

mould

• n. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.
• v. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.

plead

• v. To present an argument, especially in a legal case.
• v. To beg, beseech, or implore.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

pressing

• adj. Needing urgent attention.
• adj. Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
• n. The application of pressure by a press or other means.
• n. A metal or plastic part made with a press.
• n. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a…
• n. A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio…
• n. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
• n. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
• n. Urgent insistence.
• v. present participle of press.

pressure

• n. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
• n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
• n. Distress.
• n. Urgency.
• n. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
• n. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
• v. (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

promote

• v. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
• v. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell…
• v. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
• v. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to the above league.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
• v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
• v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

pushing

• v. present participle of push.
• v. Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.
• adj. That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
• adj. (now rare) Aggressively assertive; pushy.
• n. The act by which something is pushed.

rede

• n. (archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
• n. (archaic) Decision, a plan.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To govern, protect.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To discuss, deliberate.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To advise.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

tighten

• v. (transitive) To make tighter.
• v. (intransitive) To become tighter.
• v. (economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
• v. (economics) To raise short-term interest rates.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

urge

• n. A strong desire; an itch to do something.
• v. (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
• v. (transitive) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
• v. (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
• v. (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
• v. (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
• v. (transitive) To press onward or forward.
• v. (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

urgency

• n. The quality or condition of being urgent.
• n. insistence, pressure.

wardrobe

• n. (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside…
• n. (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for…
• n. (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
• n. (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
• n. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
• n. (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes;…
• n. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furnit…
• n. (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
• n. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
• n. (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
• n. (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
• n. (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
• n. (hunting, obsolete) Badger shit: the feces produced by badgers, particularly used in tracking game.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.

weigh

• v. (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
• v. (transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
• v. (transitive) To consider a subject.
• v. (transitive) To have a certain weight.
• v. (intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
• v. (intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
• v. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
• v. (obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

weight-lift

• v. To engage in weightlifting; to lift weights to develop strength.

weightlift

• v. (intransitive, rare, sports) To practise weightlifting.

weightlifting

• n. A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
• n. (sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.