Synonyms of the word puddle


PUDDLEADDLE - BUNDLE - COMPACT - CONFUSE - EGEST - ELIMINATE - EXCRETE - FORGE - FORM - JUMBLE - MAKE - MICTURATE - MOLD - MONKEY - MOULD - MUDDLE - PACK - PASS - PEE - PEE-PEE - PIDDLE - PISS - PLACE - PLANT - PLASH - POOL - POTTER - PUTTER - RILE - ROIL - SET - SHAPE - SPATTER - SPLASH - SPLATTER - SPLOSH - SPOT - SWASH - TINKER - URINATE - WAD - WADE - WATER - WEE - WEE-WEE - WORK

puddle

  • n. A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
  • n. (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
  • n. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
  • v. To form a puddle.
  • v. To play or splash in a puddle.
  • v. To process iron by means of puddling.
  • v. To line a canal with puddle (clay).
  • v. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research…
  • v. To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
  • v. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

addle

  • v. (provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
  • v. (provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
  • adj. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
  • adj. (by extension) Unfruitful or confused; muddled.
  • adj. Addled.
  • n. (obsolete) Liquid filth; mire.
  • n. (provincial) Lees; dregs.
  • v. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
  • v. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing,…
  • n. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

bundle

  • n. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
  • n. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
  • n. (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
  • n. (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
  • n. (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
  • n. A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).
  • n. (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
  • v. To tie or wrap together.
  • v. To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
  • v. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
  • v. (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
  • v. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up.
  • v. (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
  • v. (intransitive) To hurry.
  • v. (slang) To dogpile.
  • v. (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
  • v. (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.

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.

confuse

  • v. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
  • v. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
  • v. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
  • v. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
  • v. To mistake one thing for another.

egest

  • v. To excrete from the body.

eliminate

  • v. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
  • v. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
  • v. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
  • v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
  • v. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

excrete

  • v. (of an organism) to discharge from the system.

forge

  • n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
  • n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
  • n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
  • v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  • v. To form or create with concerted effort.
  • v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
  • v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
  • v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
  • v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

form

  • n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
  • n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
  • n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  • n. Level of performance.
  • n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
  • n. The den or home of a hare.
  • n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
  • n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
  • n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
  • n. (geometry) A quantic.
  • n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
  • v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
  • v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  • v. (intransitive) To take shape.
  • v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
  • v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  • v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  • v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  • v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
  • v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

jumble

  • v. (transitive) to mix or confuse.
  • v. (intransitive) to meet or unite in a confused way.
  • n. A mixture of unrelated things.
  • n. (Britain) Items for a rummage sale.
  • n. (archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

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.

micturate

  • v. (intransitive, physiology, formal) To urinate.

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.

monkey

  • n. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from…
  • n. (informal) Any nonhuman primate, including apes.
  • n. (informal) A mischievous child.
  • n. (Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling.
  • n. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar…
  • n. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance.
  • n. (blackjack) A face card.
  • n. (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder…
  • n. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head…
  • n. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
  • v. (informal) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

mould

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

muddle

  • v. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
  • v. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
  • v. To dabble in mud.
  • v. To make turbid or muddy.
  • v. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
  • v. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
  • v. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
  • n. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

pack

  • n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for…
  • n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack.
  • n. a multitude.
  • n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
  • n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
  • n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
  • n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
  • n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
  • n. A group of Cub Scouts.
  • n. A shook of cask staves.
  • n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
  • n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
  • n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack,…
  • n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
  • n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
  • n. (rugby) The team on the field.
  • v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
  • v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
  • v. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
  • v. To move, send or carry.
  • v. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
  • v. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis or other manbulge-causing…

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

pee

  • n. (euphemistic, often childish) urine.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, often childish) To urinate.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To drizzle.
  • n. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.
  • n. (Britain, colloquial) Pence; penny (a quantity of money).
  • n. (nautical) The bill of an anchor.
  • n. The sliding weight on a steelyard.

pee-pee

  • n. (colloquial, usually childish) Urine.
  • n. (colloquial, usually childish) The penis; male genitalia.
  • v. (hypocoristic, slang) To urinate.

piddle

  • n. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) An act of urination.
  • v. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) To urinate.
  • v. To waste time; often used as a euphemism for piss and followed by away.

piss

  • n. (vulgar) Urine.
  • n. (vulgar, slang) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
  • v. (intransitive, vulgar) To urinate.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.

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).

plant

  • n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
  • n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
  • n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
  • n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
  • n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
  • n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
  • n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
  • n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
  • n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
  • n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
  • n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
  • n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
  • n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
  • n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
  • n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
  • v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
  • v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
  • v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
  • v. To place in the ground.
  • v. To furnish or supply with plants.
  • v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  • v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
  • v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
  • v. To set up; to install; to instate.

plash

  • n. (Britain, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
  • n. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
  • v. (intransitive) To splash.
  • v. (transitive) To cause a splash.
  • v. (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
  • n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
  • v. (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.

pool

  • n. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring…
  • n. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
  • n. A swimming pool.
  • n. A supply of resources.
  • v. (intransitive, of a liquid) to form a pool.
  • n. (uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking…
  • n. A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball…
  • n. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the…
  • n. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
  • n. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player…
  • n. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the…
  • n. (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated,…
  • n. (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common…
  • v. (transitive) to put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits…
  • v. (intransitive) to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

potter

  • n. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
  • n. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
  • n. One who pots meats or other eatables.
  • n. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
  • n. The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
  • n. The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
  • v. (obsolete) To poke repeatedly.
  • v. (Britain) To act in a vague or unmotivated way.
  • v. (Britain) To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.).

putter

  • v. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
  • n. One who puts or places.
  • n. One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.
  • n. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
  • n. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
  • v. To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.

rile

  • v. to make angry.
  • v. to stir or move from a state of calm or order.

roil

  • v. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
  • v. To annoy; to make someone angry.
  • v. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.

set

  • v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
  • v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
  • v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
  • v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
  • v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
  • v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
  • v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
  • v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
  • v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
  • v. (intransitive) To solidify.
  • v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
  • v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
  • v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
  • v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
  • v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
  • v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
  • v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
  • v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  • v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
  • v. To place or fix in a setting.
  • v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
  • v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
  • v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
  • v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
  • v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  • v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
  • v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  • v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
  • v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
  • v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
  • n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
  • n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
  • n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
  • n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
  • n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
  • n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
  • n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
  • n. A young oyster when first attached.
  • n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
  • n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
  • n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
  • n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
  • adj. Fixed in position.
  • adj. Rigid, solidified.
  • adj. Ready, prepared.
  • adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
  • adj. Prearranged.
  • adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
  • adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
  • n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
  • n. A rudimentary fruit.
  • n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
  • n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
  • n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
  • n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
  • n. An object made up of several parts.
  • n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
  • n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
  • n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
  • n. The scenery for a film or play.
  • n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
  • n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
  • n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
  • n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
  • n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
  • n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
  • v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

shape

  • n. The status or condition of something.
  • n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
  • n. Form; formation.
  • n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
  • n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
  • n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
  • n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
  • v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
  • v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
  • v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
  • v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
  • v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  • v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

spatter

  • v. (transitive) To splash with small droplets.
  • v. (transitive) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

splash

  • n. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
  • n. A small amount of liquid.
  • n. A small amount (of color).
  • n. A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
  • n. An impact or impression.
  • n. (computing, informal) splash screen.
  • n. (wrestling) A body press; A move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top…
  • v. To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
  • v. To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
  • v. (transitive) to hit or expel liquid at.
  • v. To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.
  • v. (transitive) To spend (money).
  • v. To launch a ship.

splatter

  • n. An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
  • n. (attributive) A genre of gory horror.
  • v. (intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.
  • v. (transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).

splosh

  • v. to make the sound of splashing.
  • v. to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
  • v. to spill or spill over.
  • n. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
  • n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Tea (the drink).

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.

swash

  • n. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
  • n. (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
  • n. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or…
  • n. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  • n. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
  • n. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
  • n. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
  • n. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
  • v. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
  • v. (intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
  • adj. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

tinker

  • n. an itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin.
  • n. (dated, chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy.
  • n. (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
  • n. Someone who repairs, or attempts repair on anything mechanical (tinkers) or invents; a tinkerer.
  • n. The act of repair or invention.
  • n. (military, obsolete) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
  • n. Any of various fish: the chub mackerel, the silverside, the skate, or a young mackerel about two years…
  • n. A bird, the razor-billed auk.
  • v. (intransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental…
  • v. (intransitive) To work as a tinker.

urinate

  • v. (urology) To pass urine from the body.

wad

  • n. An amorphous, compact mass.
  • n. A substantial pile (normally of money).
  • n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
  • n. (slang) A sandwich.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
  • n. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…
  • v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
  • v. (Ulster) To wager.
  • v. To insert or force a wad into.
  • v. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

wade

  • v. (intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
  • v. (intransitive) to progress with difficulty.
  • v. (transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter recklessly.
  • n. an act of wading.
  • n. Obsolete form of woad.

water

  • n. (uncountable) A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear…
  • n. (alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements…
  • n. (often in the plural) Any body of water, or a specific part of it.
  • n. A combination of water and other substance(s).
  • n. (figuratively, in the plural or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective…
  • n. (colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
  • n. (uncountable, dated, finance) Excess valuation of securities.
  • n. The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
  • n. A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
  • v. (transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
  • v. (transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
  • v. (intransitive) To get or take in water.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
  • v. (transitive) To dilute.
  • v. (transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
  • v. (intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.
  • v. (transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines;…

wee

  • adj. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
  • n. (colloquial, uncountable) urine.
  • n. (colloquial) An act of urination.
  • v. (colloquial) To urinate.
  • pron. obsolete emphatic of we.

wee-wee

  • n. (childish, slang) Urine; pee-pee.
  • n. (childish, slang) The penis; male genitalia; pee-pee.
  • v. (intransitive, informal, childish) to urinate.

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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