Synonyms of the word

purport

• v. To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
• v. (construed with to) To intend.
• n. import, intention or purpose.
• n. (obsolete) disguise; covering.

aim

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

claim

• n. A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
• n. A new statement of something you believed to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified…
• n. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush).
• n. (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
• v. To demand ownership of.
• v. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
• v. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
• v. (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
• v. (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
• v. (archaic) To proclaim.
• v. (archaic) To call or name.

drift

• n. (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
• n. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
• n. A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
• n. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention;…
• n. (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
• n. (handiwork) A tool.
• n. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
• n. (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an…
• n. (nautical) Movement.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
• v. (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
• v. (transitive) To drive into heaps.
• v. (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
• v. (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence…
• v. (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
• v. To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner…

import

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

intend

• v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished);…
• v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
• v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
• v. To strain; make tense.
• v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
• v. To apply with energy.
• v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
• v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
• v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

intent

• n. A purpose; something that is intended.
• n. (law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
• adj. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
• adj. Engrossed.
• adj. Unwavering from a course of action.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

meaning

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

propose

• v. (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
• v. (transitive) To intend.
• v. (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
• v. (obsolete) To set forth.
• n. (obsolete) An objective or aim.

purpose

• n. An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
• n. A result that is desired; an intention.
• n. The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
• n. The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
• n. The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.
• n. (obsolete) Instance; example.
• v. (transitive) Have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
• v. (transitive) (passive) Designed for some purpose.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

significance

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

signification

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

spirit

• n. The collective souls of man or another entity.
• n. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
• n. Enthusiasm.
• n. The manner or style of something.
• n. (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term…
• n. Energy; ardour.
• n. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or…
• n. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in…
• n. (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
• n. (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
• n. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
• n. (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according…
• n. (dyeing) stannic chloride.
• v. To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
• v. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

tenor

• n. (music) Musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
• n. A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
• n. (archaic, music) Musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor…
• n. Tone, as of a conversation.
• n. (obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
• n. (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
• n. (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
• n. Stamp; character; nature.
• n. (law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which…
• n. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport;…
• adj. Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

think

• v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
• v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
• v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• v. To presume; to venture.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
• v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.