Synonyms of the word

quarter

• adj. Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
• adj. (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
• adj. (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
• n. Any fourth of something, particularly.
• n. Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly.
• v. (transitive) To divide into quarters.
• v. (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
• v. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
• v. (transitive) To quartersaw.
• v. (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut…

accommodate

• v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
• v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
• v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
• v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
• v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
• v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
• v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
• adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

back

• adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
• adj. (not comparable) Not current.
• adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
• adj. In arrear; overdue.
• adj. Moving or operating backward.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
• adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
• adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
• adv. In a manner that impedes.
• adv. In a reciprocal manner.
• n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest…
• n. That which is farthest away from the front.
• n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
• n. A support or resource in reserve.
• n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
• n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
• n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
• n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
• v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
• v. (transitive) To support.
• v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise…
• v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to…
• v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
• v. (Britain, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
• v. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
• v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
• v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
• v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
• v. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend…
• v. To row backward with (oars).
• n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers,…
• n. A ferryboat.

billet

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

canton

• n. A division of a political unit.
• n. A small community or clan.
• n. A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side (e.g., the stars…
• n. (heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed…
• v. To delineate as a separate district.
• n. (obsolete) A song or canto.

clemency

• n. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
• n. (law) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive…
• n. (now rare) Mildness of weather.

coin

• n. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or…
• n. A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
• n. (figuratively) That which serves for payment or recompense.
• n. (uncountable, slang, US, African American Vernacular) money in general, not limited to coins.
• n. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
• n. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
• n. A small circular slice of food.
• v. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
• v. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
• v. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

divide

• v. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
• v. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number…
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
• v. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
• v. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
• v. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
• v. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
• v. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
• v. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite…
• v. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
• v. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
• n. A thing that divides.
• n. An act of dividing.
• n. A distancing between two people or things.
• n. (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

fourth

• adj. The ordinal form of the number four.
• n. (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the fourth position.
• n. (chiefly American) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
• n. (not used in the plural) The fourth gear of an engine.
• n. (music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).

fraction

• n. A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
• n. A ratio of two numbers, the numerator and the denominator, usually written one above the other and separated…
• n. (chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
• n. In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
• n. A small amount.
• n. The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
• v. To divide or break into fractions.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

lodge

• n. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
• n. Porter's or caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
• n. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
• n. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
• n. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
• n. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
• n. A den or cave.
• n. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
• n. (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore…
• n. A collection of objects lodged together.
• n. A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration,…
• v. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
• v. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
• v. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
• v. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

mercifulness

• n. The state of being merciful; mercy.

mercy

• n. (uncountable) relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
• n. (uncountable) forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
• n. (uncountable) A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion.
• n. (countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
• n. (countable) A blessing, something to be thankful for.
• v. (obsolete) To thank.
• interj. Expressing surprise or alarm.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

one-fourth

• adj. Being one quarter of the usual dimension.

orientation

• n. (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
• n. (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
• n. (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with…
• n. (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
• n. (countable) The ability to orient.
• n. (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
• n. (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
• n. (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
• n. (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively"…

period

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

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

poop

• n. The stern of a ship.
• v. (transitive) To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
• v. (transitive) To embark a ship over the stern.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a short blast on a horn.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To break wind.
• v. (intransitive) To defecate.
• n. (often childish) Fecal matter, feces.
• n. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
• n. (US, dated) information, facts.
• interj. (childish, euphemistic) Expressing annoyed disappointment.
• n. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
• v. (transitive) To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.
• n. A slothful person.

quartern

• n. (archaic) A quarter part; one fourth.
• n. (archaic) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds.

rear

• v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
• v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
• v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
• v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
• v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
• v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
• v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
• v. (transitive) To move; stir.
• v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
• v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
• adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
• adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
• adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
• n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
• n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
• v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

section

• n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• n. A part of a document.
• n. An act or instance of cutting.
• n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
• n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• n. (category theory) A right inverse.
• n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
• n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
• v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
• v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

segment

• n. A length of some object.
• n. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section;…
• n. (mathematics) A portion.
• n. (sciences) A portion.
• n. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
• n. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
• n. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular…
• n. (travel) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked…
• v. To divide into segments or sections.

session

• n. A period devoted to a particular activity.
• n. A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.
• n. (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period…
• n. (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from…
• n. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
• n. (music) jam session.
• n. (education) An academic term.
• v. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

stern

• adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
• adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
• n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
• n. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
• n. The hinder part of anything.
• n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
• n. A bird, the black tern.

tail

• n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
• n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
• n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
• n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
• n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
• n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
• n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
• n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
• n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
• n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
• n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
• n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
• n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
• n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
• n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
• n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• n. (mining) A tailing.
• n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
• v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
• v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
• v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
• v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• v. To pull or draw by the tail.
• adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
• n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.